Looking Back: A Century of Light & Shadow

May 8, 2007

I find now, that I have returned to the Burning Ground of Purgatory, because the people are not yet redeemed. Maybe tomorrow we’ll hear from the Bug-Eyed Aliens. In the meanwhile, we shall need to listen to the Voice of The Sphinx.

The question the Bad Kitty is asking today, is why the world considers that Germany has a genocide guilt to expiate, but Georgia, Kansas, and Arizona do not.

I am sure that you shall agree, this is indeed a Bad Kitty Question. It leads us to a big door with a padlock, and a big red and white sign which declares that everything inside is off-limits, because what is inside of that locked door is Hell.

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I look back on all the phone calls, all of the things that I did to impress her, and even on the all-too-short time when we actually were happily in love.

We should have appreciated each other more, and maybe we could have – except that the times were so desperate.

Even back then, even as the Century of Light & Shadow drew to a close, we understood that something nasty was on the back burner, and that if we did not find a way of reducing the heat & the pressure, there would be a Devil to pay.

Why have we allowed our sexual tastes to become so brutal? I am not speaking of sadomasochistic contests which are played by rules, because the existence of rules testifies to a recognition of the common domain of mutual feelings.

What I am asking is – why is it that in the sexual economy, just as in every other marketplace, we allow games to be played in which one person, or one faction, is allowed to crush all the others? Yes, we know, it is a game which used to be sponsored by Senators. So long as we remain bound up in our White-Supremacist traditions, there is just no way that we can get around the slaveholding Romans, and their “Old and Honored” institutions.

The Romans liked to talk about the human sacrifices of the Druids, but only discontinued their own sacrifices after they had conquered Carthage – probably because it was considered that if the Gods had appreciated the practice, Hannibal would have won.

But did Rome ever really give up human sacrifices? Why don’t we ask Augustine?

So why, if the Babylonian institutions have such historical stains, do the native and naturalized citizens of the New Rome persist in regarding all the indigenous cultures as headhunters bogged down by the cake of custom?

Of course, where Babylon’s lawyers are concerned, it’s called a cakewalk, and the custom is referred to as precedent.

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