MY RECENT BOUT with Covid, 21 June to 9 July – this despite vaccination and three boosters – has robbed me of any expectation of longevity beyond the immediate present.
My illness – exemplary both of “long Covid” and of “herd immunity”
fulfilling its genocidal intent – has radically worsened my
(hitherto-stable) congestive heart failure; the doubled and quadrupled
medications so necessitated have set me on an inescapable path to kidney
failure and agonizingly reactivated my decades-dormant esophageal
re-flux problems. Long Covid has also permanently inflamed my
osteoarthritis severely enough I am now so painfully crippled, I am
often effectively bedridden; and three months after the fact, it is
obvious the virus has slain forever my senses of taste and smell. As
many of you know, I am 83 years old; while my doctors refuse to estimate
how much longer I might live, there is now no question my departure is
looming. At the beginning of the pandemic, three oracles, I Ching,
runes and tarot, predicted Covid would kill me, and though eventually I
came to believe I had misread their messages, now I know I did not.
These days when I dream, it is almost always either of conversations
with dead people, usually my father, or of activities in which I am
companioned by long-dead favorite dogs. Thus when I fall asleep, I am
never sure I will awaken. But as dreadful as all this may sound, it is
also a liberation, for now I am free to lift my social-fingers to the
arsonist(s) who destroyed my life’s work and write without any concern
my words will precipitate my disappearance or the more commonplace
removal by alleged accident or suicide.
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HERE THEN, AS a prelude to all that follows, is a list of eight
present-day horrors that views their known-to-be-deadly effects as
cleverly disguised expressions of intent:
Covid-19 – a lethal virus most likely engineered for
biological warfare. Regardless of the pandemic's origin, the fact it
mutates too rapidly to be controlled by immunization makes “herd
immunity” a clever euphemism for deliberately inflicted genocide.
Statistically, most victims are members of the working class, aka the
99.9 Percent. Pivotal question: who (or what) is served by the resultant
extermination of millions of humans?
Climate change – a modern apocalypse inflicted on our species and planet by patriarchal ignorance
and now deliberately, continuously worsened, allegedly by political
paralysis imposed by capitalist greed and associated bribery, but in
terrifying truth by our masters’ definitively ecogenocidal choices.
Pivotal questions: why are the owners of this planet destroying its
ability to support life as we know it? Who (or what) benefits from
Earth’s reduction to lifeless twinship with forever-barren Mars?
Abandonment of infrastructure – a modern crisis that seems to have begun in the USian Empire
but has since metastasized throughout the globe. Typically dismissed as
the unavoidable consequence of “neoliberal austerity,” it is the cause
of soaring fatalities due to train wrecks, structural collapses and
other such disasters. Pivotal question: why are the world’s governments
– the executive agencies that serve the de facto owners of these properties (i.e., the ruling class) – abandoning their investments? Hint: why are factories abandoned and left to rot?
Unprecedented escalation of warmongering – the risk of our species’ extinction by chemical, biological and thermonuclear warfare is at an all-time high;
indeed, its terrifying magnitude may be taken as the ultimate
declaration the global ruling class now considers itself well-enough
bunkered to survive whatever ecogenocidal horrors it inflicts on the
rest of us. Pivotal questions: why is this happening now? Apart from the
smirkingly bunkered aristocracy, who (or what) benefits from such an
ecogenocidal event? And how do the aristocrats benefit if there are no
(enslaved) humans to serve them?
Replacement of humans with robots and artificial intelligence – the skyrocketing replacement of workers with machines is creating an ever-expanding “surplus” of unemployed workers
who have no real possibility of ever again finding living-wage jobs.
Pivotal question: why do our masters so despise humans they are
literally sentencing millions of us to death by poverty, disease,
homelessness and starvation?
De-educating the working class – aka “dumbing down” the citizenry. Astronomer Carl Sagan defines the problem, and Psychiatrist Niall McLaren analyzes its deliberately toxic economics.
Pivotal questions: why do our masters rob us of the intellectual tools
we need to thrive as humans? What do they gain from such atrocities?
Destruction of social services – aka “austerity,” in truth slow-motion genocide
targeting women and the neediest members of the 99.9 Percent. Pivotal
questions: who (or what) benefits from this policy? How is genocide on
such scale beneficial to our masters?
Prohibition (or destruction) of health care as a human right – another process begun by USian malevolence – in this instance by its relentless insistence health care remain a privilege of wealth – but now, disguised as “austerity,” metastasizing rapidly throughout Europe and the rest of the world. (The foregoing data is somewhat dated, though the deadly trends obviously continue both in the U.S. and Europe.) Pivotal question: who (or what) benefits from this growing tsunami of sickness and death?
Ultimate question: what do all these atrocities tell
us? What singular purpose does the ruling-class-induced atrocity of
global warming – that is, ecogenocidal climate change – have in common
with the (other) ecogenocidal atrocities of ruling-class-induced
austerity? What terrible truth does that purpose suggest?
Note that universal education and
health care are investments in our species’ future, and that their
methodical reduction – like the abandonment of infrastructure – is a
message from our masters they believe we no longer have a future worthy
of investment.
What we see in the above – though it is a truth too terrifyingly
painful for most of us to acknowledge (one therefore rendered “plausibly
deniable” by the boiled-frog pace of our terminal subjugation) – are
eight aspects of a total war against our species and against our Mother
Earth’s ability to support human life, the latter possibly aimed at
reducing her to irremediably barren twinhood with Mars.
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I SHOULD PREFACE this next section by stressing I have no prior
history as a devotee of the unidentified-flying-object cult. Moreover I
remain profoundly antagonistic to the notion all of our species’ ancient
achievements were fostered by extraterrestrial visitations,
which I regard as an especially devious means of vilifying the
matrifocal, probably matriarchal potlach-communism that characterized
our collective history until the decidedly curious, unquestionably
violent imposition of patriarchy some six-or-seven-thousand years ago.
Though I have heard many credible UFO stories, especially during my
years in the working press, I always ranked them among the many
seemingly inexplicable anomalies of modern life, and never until now
felt any compulsion to write about UFOs or even give them much more than
momentary thought.
Also there’s the fact that in all the time outdoors (often in the
back country and some of it at sea) that characterized the best of my 83
years, I myself witnessed only one genuinely UFO-ish phenomenon, this
in 1959, as best I recall in May or June, just past sunset while sitting
outside with friends quietly chatting as we routinely awaited the
scattered pinpoints of gracefully floating green and amber light that
are the opening movements of suburban Knoxville’s breathtakingly
exquisite seasonal choreography of fireflies. Instead there was suddenly
a bright orange fireball maybe a hand-span above the north-northeast
horizon; it was astonishingly big, about a quarter the size of the full
moon at its smallest mid-heaven zenith; it glided eastward for maybe 10
degrees almost parallel to the surface of the earth, wobbled violently,
showered sparks, descended in a shallow curve, briefly ascended, again
wobbled and spewed sparks, then plunged out-of-sight behind the
silhouetted peaks of the Great Smokies. It left us startled and
muttering exclamations. I immediately telephoned a friend, WKGN News
Director Tom Combs, and reported what we had seen. He said he’d already
received a half-dozen calls about it. He told me the next day it had
been witnessed by at least a hundred persons; that because of its
erratic flight, some had feared it was a crashing airplane. All a
University of Tennessee astronomer would tell Combs – note the wording –
is “we can say it was a meteorite,” and like so many other incidents of
its kind, it was soon consigned to official oblivion. But it stuck in
my mind because even then I had sufficient background in astronomy to
know meteorites do not momentarily gain altitude in their descent from
outer space.
Now, given the combination of newly acknowledged UFO incidents with
the undeniably apocalyptic perpetuation of the eight atrocities I
described above, I am compelled to suspect it is probable we’ve already been conquered
by interstellar predators – and that the global ruling class,
capitalist and communist alike, is merely functioning as the invaders’
own obscenely recompensed SS-Totenkopfverbände, its present task the reduction of our world to a planet-sized Auschwitz.
Indeed, per Occam’s Razor, this is the only hypothesis that
explains all of today’s afflictions – most especially the self-imposed
pseudo-paralysis by which the global ruling class, capitalist and
communist alike, relentlessly attempts to excuse its
ever-more-apocalyptic refusal to reduce the causative abuses, much less
its refusal to ameliorate their disastrous results. Mind you, I’m not
saying extraterrestrial conquest is the final, definitive truth of our
species’ increasingly hopeless present-day circumstances. But the
unprecedented solidarity of malevolent cunning the global ruling class
exhibits in the success of its universal promotion of the originally
USian ethos of self-obsessed moral imbecility and in the veritable
omnipotence demonstrated by its diabolical skill at co-optation and/or
suppression of any and all forms of organized humanitarianism most
assuredly suggest an equal capability for beneficence -- the glaring
absence of which is therefore both infinitely damning and all the more
suggestive of purposeful choice.
There is also the fact the present-day plague of atrocities is
entirely the function of patriarchy and is therefore arguably the final
revelation of its unspoken purpose. Note too how the imposition of
patriarchy is biblically attributed to talking snakes, divine
apparitions, flaming wheels in the sky and loquacious brush-fires
underscored by the (thermonuclear?) destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
With its misogynistic war against our Mother Earth, against all
femaleness and implicitly therefore against all being, patriarchy is
increasingly recognized as a death cult. Dialectic-materialist efforts
to define patriarchy as a logical outgrowth of the agricultural
revolution not withstanding, it is not unthinkable to suppose it to be
a long-term interstellar expression of the same strategic scheming
evident in smallpox-infected blankets.
At the very least, the body of
evidence demands the probability of our terminal victimization by
extraterrestrial conquerors ought to be given serious consideration and
thorough investigation.
Investigated or not, the likelihood we are already the powerless
subjects of some conquering alien species becomes obvious when we
examine the undeniably anti-human, sometimes undeniably genocidal or
ecogenocidal consequences of the afflictions in question. Though it is
clear there is no longer any rational hope we might yet save ourselves,
at least we would then be able to correctly identify our executioners
and thus yet retain some minimal authority over the courses of our
individual lives.
In this context, let us now consider the likelihood the burgeoning
official acknowledgment of unknown aerial and oceanic phenomenon is – in
much the same way European acknowledgment of Nazi German technological
superiority was the prelude to psychological acceptance of defeat,
enslavement and extermination – the precursor to admission we are a
conquered species. Note how we are being methodically robbed of all our
former freedoms – and more importantly of even any expectation of
freedom – literally everywhere on the planet. It is thus at least
arguable our minds are being conditioned for enslavement. Is it then
mere coincidence that, after denying the reality of UFOs and their
underwater counterparts for at least 80 years – often ridiculing and even slandering as mentally ill anyone who dared admit encountering UFOs –
the world’s governments are now finally acknowledging such things are
real? Or that the propaganda apparatus which serves the global ruling
class now deluges us with documentaries that claim humans are routinely
kidnapped and used as lab rats by extraterrestrials?
Typical of the aliens-as-conquerors documentaries is “Alien Endgame,” an hour and 25-minute film available on Max
that claims a “massive military cover-up” of the fact “our very
existence is at risk.” It includes testimony about incidents in which
UFOS rendered nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
unlaunchable, notes that UFOs operate with speed and maneuverability far
beyond human capabilities, that they can become invisible and are
sometimes undetectable by radar. The film also describes naval
encounters with unidentified submerged objects that demonstrate the same
seemingly inexplicable characteristics. “If the aliens decide to
attack,” the film concludes, “we don’t stand a chance.”
Significantly, the aliens’ oberführers – the terrifying
medical-experiment sadism associated with their kidnappings prompts me
to describe them with the terminology of nazism – are often said to look
like bipeds descended from giant preying mantises.
This brings to mind a 1974 or 1975 comment by a prominent
astrophysicist that only exoskeletal creatures can survive the
gravitational forces generated by right-angle turns at mach 10 and other
such astounding maneuvers even then attributed to UFOs. I’m sorry I
don’t remember the astrophysicist’s name, but I do remember his comment
generated a lively, mostly apprehensive discussion midway through the
astronomy course I was then taking as an overage undergraduate. Now,
knowing how insect biology is a prime inspiration in robotics and artificial intelligence,
I find the notion of insectoid conquerors horrifying beyond words. Is
our obviously methodical reduction to moral imbecility the beginning of
our replacement by dependably emotionless machines? And let us not
forget that female mantises, like female spiders, eat their mates, nor
that a large enough plague of locusts – or greedy patriarchs – could
leave our Earth as barren as present-day Mars. Are we humans being bred
to be our masters' Soylent Green? Might irremediably desolate Mars exemplify the ecogenocidal ruin Earth too is now fated to become?
Even so, a few documentaries present the invaders as benign. “Encounters,” a four-episode program on Netflix,
describes the extraterrestrials as claiming “the environment is our
first priority,” warning us our species is “actually making harm on the
world,” that “technology is not going to do humans any good” and urging
us to care for nature. It also quotes Japanese sources who describe the
aliens as “kind and comforting,” which echo many First Nations accounts of encounters with beneficent “Star People.”
The notion of benevolent and malevolent extraterrestrials and their
implicit competition for human allegiance is obviously the newest
variant of the ancient traditions, common to all cultures, of cosmic warfare between the forces of good and evil. From any such perspective of universal dualism, the pivotal question becomes the one poised by the coal miners’ anthem, “Which Side Are You On?”
But the oft-demonstrated omnipotence of the ruling class – specifically
its uncanny genius at deception and co-optation (which history shows us
is at least as old as patriarchy itself) – makes any such discernment
impossible. Note the paradox of Christianity: is it, as the late and
oft-persecuted Jesuit Fr. William Bischel
believed and practiced, a benevolently revolutionary credo of peace,
humanitarian love, social liberation and the harmonious healing of
Nature? Or is its equally documented function as the credo of
ecogenocidal hatred embraced by capitalists, Trumpists,
prosperity-gospel fanatics, Ku Klux Klaners, Nazis,
witch-burners and other misogynistic moral imbeciles the true
expression of its essence? The same functional schizophrenia – and thus
the same (unanswerable) question – seemingly applies to every religious
or political movement our species has generated. Nor is it mooted by the
growing suspicion many of our most iconic figures – Moses, the Buddha,
Jesus, Muhammad, Our Lady of Fatima – may have themselves been
extraterrestrials. Quoth St. Paul (2 Corinthians 11:14, New International Version): “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” And despite its apparent absurdity, let us not overlook the claim Hitler's Nazis – and now their USian successors – achieved power as the willing puppets of extraterrestrial masters.
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MY ARSON-DESTROYED and thus forever lost “Glimpses of a Pale Dancer”
hypothesized via approximately one hundred photographs and some
one-hundred-fifty-thousand words of extensively footnoted text that the
1960s Counterculture was simultaneously the resurrection of the Great
Goddess, our species first and oldest deity, and – as demonstrated by
the aesthetic solidarity that underlay the dissonance of its politics –
the first wave of a global revolution against patriarchy. Another
writer's parallel work, The Return of the Goddess (Edward C.
Whitmont, Crossroad Publishing: 1984), offered a kindred but less
obviously revolutionary hypothesis based on Jungian psycho-analytic
analysis of dreams. But as proven by the flames that burned "Dancer"
like a witch slain in obvious retaliation for her alleged heresies, my
bluntly expressed conclusions – which noted in passing the Goddess-worship origins of Marxism’s red star and hammer-and-sickle symbols –
were obviously tabooed as too dangerous for public consumption.
"Dancer" was thus destroyed just as it seemingly approached mainstream
publication. Nor is it insignificant its would-have-been editor, the
late Cicely Nichols, regarded "Dancer" as potentially one of the "most
influential books of the 20th Century"; indeed the arsonist(s) lit the
fire at the very moment Cicely and I began the meeting intended to
finalize our working agreement.
“Dancer” defined the '60s Counterculture in its broadest sense; it
sidestepped the obvious self-indulgence of the white petite-bourgeois
faddists who later proved their proto-nazi moral imbecility by their
votes for Ronald Reagan; it focused specifically on the aesthetic
solidarity of feminism, environmentalism and the back-to-the-land
movement as demonstrated by its music, visual art, literature and
science, including the folk renaissance, the Whole Earth Catalog and – perhaps most importantly – the Gaia Hypothesis, which in essence is the modern scientific restatement of the inconceivably ancient pagan core-belief our Mother Earth – the Great Goddess who was our species' first and longest-lasting deity – is a living being, conscious, self-regulating and thus at least arguably invocable.
What “Dancer” omitted – this in the admittedly selfish interest of
preserving my journalistic credibility – was a pair of decidedly curious
events that seemed to confirm not just the project's relevance and
validity but its cosmic/karmic necessity. These incidents – there were also a half-dozen lesser events easily dismissable as coincidence – are the childhood experience I describe in the essay “Abutments”
(note the element of missing time, which today might be taken as
indicative of a UFO encounter), and the brief but profoundly moving
vision I experienced during an absolutely intoxicant-free moment of
reflection in 1970: this occurred in the Cascade foothills beneath the
August full moon of 1970, almost exactly 18 years after the 1952
incident. As I described in an earlier essay:
I had walked alone and lonely into
the Innis Creek water meadow, an unkempt span of lowland maybe thirty
yards wide that was now dry but was annually drenched by the creek's
vernal floods. It was at least four times that distance beyond the corn
fields, buildings and gardens of the Wickersham, Washington agricultural
commune where I was then a long-term guest who contentedly paid my way
by contributing a full share of physical effort to the requisite daily
labor, and now I stood amidst Nature's shadowy harbingers of early
Autumn: blown thistles, bright clumps of pearly everlasting, iridescent
cobwebs bejeweled with dew. The communards were meeting in their main
building but were ensnared in psychodrama intensified by the
unresolvable ideological disputes that invariably arise from caste
differences, and I had left the session in disillusioned bitterness and
disgust. Seeking to restore my inner peace, I sprawled face-upward on
the weedy ground and gazed at the zenith-high improbably brilliant moon
as if it were some mandala of last resort.
Then to my astonishment there was a decidedly strange kind of jolt, as if – albeit eerily without the physical reality –
I had heard and felt some unseen door burst open, and all in the same
breathtaking instant the moon spiraled into a rainbow that expanded to
fill the entire sky, contracted to a vortex of flowing bands of color,
plunged tornado-like to earth and shaped a magnificently ageless woman
pale and translucent as mist yet undeniably real. She was majestically
naked but loosely wrapped in the lunar blonde infinity of her own hair;
she smiled, reached out her hands as if to embrace me and then like some
impossibly magical dancer swirled her endless mane into rainbow hues
that swept her aloft, dissolving herself back into rivers of color that
expanded once more from horizon to horizon and shrank into the moon
again – a millisecond's vision, a mere glimpse so brief and so ephemeral
I could scarcely believe I had seen it and yet so vivid it could not be
denied. But now as if nothing at all had occurred there was only the
commonplace moon again, the midnight sky and its diamond constellations,
the fragrant crush of wild chamomile beneath my head, the vast
nocturnal stillness of Pacific Northwest woods so unlike the
firefly-bright insect-rowdiness of the fields and forests in which I'd
spent the summers of my boyhood and adolescence. When the night's chill
finally urged me to my feet, I remember there were faint tendrils of
fog rising from the creek, and for a moment, just once, it seemed I
heard the clear cold water chuckle.
There is also the matter of the carefully disguised remnants of pagan
liturgy that scholars including Olaf Nygard and Robert Graves argued
are preserved in much of traditional folk music, most assuredly
including that which was re-popularized by the folk-music renaissance
that immediately preceded and obviously helped mother the advent of the
Counterculture.
Though it may seem something of an aside, the mechanics of such
disguises – Graves calls it “riddling” – are obscure enough to exemplify
here. The following is from an explanatory note I recently sent a dear
friend:
All true pagans should know how to
decode the liturgy of the Goddess that is hidden in so many traditional
ballads, disguised to protect singers and celebrants from being burnt at
the stake as witches.
Firstly we should remember most of
these stories began as seasonal celebrations, the feasts that mark the
turns of the year, specifically the Winter Solstice (Yule, Midwinter’s
Day); 1 February (Imbolc or the feast of the Goddess as Brigit,
originally the first day of spring); the Vernal Equinox (Ostara); 1 May
(Beltane, originally the first day of summer); the Summer Solstice
(Litha or Midsummer’s Day); 1 August (Lughnassadh or Bron Trograne,
originally the first day of autumn); the Autumnal Equinox (Mabon); and
Hallowe’en or Samhain (the night the year dies, originally the first day
of winter).
Secondly we should remember the two
primary seasons, winter and summer, were anciently personified as the
domains of male twins, the king/god of summer and the king/god of
winter, perpetual rivals for the love of the Goddess, their mother and
the “mother of all being,” personification of earth and cosmos. The
Summer King died on the Summer Solstice, slain by his winter twin; the
ballad John Barleycorn
describes his fate. But he was reborn on the Winter Solstice.
Eventually this anthropomorphization became a single god – aka “the
dying god” and “the once-and-future king” representing the entire year,
hence Samhain as “the night the year dies” and Midwinter’s Day as his
rebirth. Hence too the Christianization of this ancient story, with
Jesus as the year god and Satan as his rival. (Note that in the Celtic
Church, violently suppressed by the Roman Papacy, Jesus was the newest
incarnation of the dying god, while his mother – “Mary mother of god” –
was the newest incarnation of the Goddess.)
The following is a ballad entitled Willy o’ Winsbury
as sung by Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee, with my apology for the extremely
infuriating fact TypePad does not allow the normal, line-by-line
formatting of poetry:
The king had been a prisoner/ And a prisoner long in Spain/ And Willy of the Winsbury/ Has lain long with his daughter at home
From
earthly perspective in the northern hemisphere, the sun turns south at
Summer Solstice, then turns north again at Winter Solstice. Spain is to
the south of Scotland, the source of this ballad. In other words, the
sun is again traveling northward. According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition, “Willie” is not just a foreshortened version of William – the name means strong-willed protector – but is also an archaic euphemism for penis.
"What
ails you, what ails you, my daughter Janet?/ Why you look so pale and
wan?/ Oh, have you had any sore sickness/ Or yet been sleeping with a
man?"
Janet means “gift of god”; it is the time of Ostara; the land is pregnant with spring,
"I have not had any sore sickness/ Nor yet been sleeping with a man/ It is for you, my father dear/ For biding so long in Spain"
"Cast
off, cast off your berry-brown gown/ You stand naked upon the stone/
That I may know you by your shape/ If you be a maiden or none"
Such
songs as these were originally danced amidst the standing stones that
often encircled stone altars. “Berry-brown gown” symbolizes our Mother
Earth's bare brown winter soil and its winter cloak of dead brown
leaves.
And
she cast off her berry-brown gown/ She stood naked upon the stone/ Her
apron was low and her haunches were round/ Her face was pale and wan
"Oh,
was it with a lord or a duke or a knight/ Or a man of birth and fame?
Or was it with one of my serving men/ That's lately come out of Spain?"
"No,
it wasn't with a lord or a duke or a knight/ Nor a man of birth and
fame/ But it was with Willy of Winsbury/ I could bide no longer alone"
And
the king has called on his merry men all/ By thirty and by three/ Says,
"Fetch me this Willy of Winsbury/ For hanged he shall be"
Significant
math here: 30 by 3 yields a digital root of nine, as in “the nine-fold
Muse.” another name of the Goddess. And the Vernal Equinox is three
months – approximately 90 days – after the sun turns north at Winter
Solstice.
But
when he came the king before/ He was clad all in the red silk/ His hair
was like the strands of gold/ His skin was as white as the milk
"And
it is no wonder," said the king/ "That my daughter's love you did win/
For if I was a woman as I am a man/ My bedfellow you would have been
And
will you marry my daughter Janet/ By the truth of your right hand?/ Oh,
will you marry my daughter Janet?/ I'll make you the lord of my land"
"Oh
yes, I will marry your daughter Janet/ By the truth of my right hand/
Oh yes, I will marry your daughter Janet/ But I'll not be the lord of
your land"
In other words, he’ll not be the lord of winter.
And
he's mounted her on a milk-white steed/ And himself on a dapple gray/
He has made her the lady of as much land/ As she shall ride in a long
summer's day
Thus
the "long summer's day" proclaims the solar supremacy of Janet, and the
rule of the Goddess as a cosmic deity rather than merely the Earth
Mother is again affirmed, albeit in a manner that conceals her ritual
invocation from the Christians, thereby protecting the pagans from the
unimaginable agony of death at the stake.
Another key fact, one that “Dancer” repeatedly implied but carefully
avoided stating outright, is the hitherto-unacknowledged extent to
which the folk-music renaissance was obviously among the primary
cultural influences that psychologically mothered both second-wave
feminism and the Counterculture in general.
The related conclusion I dared not even suggest is that what might be
termed “Goddess-magic” remained powerful even in its most thoroughly
disguised forms. Magical or not, the archetypal woman of the traditional
ballad – examples here, here and here
– is the diametrical opposite of the oppressive archetypes of
empty-headed, athletic-hero-dependent prom queens and submissive
housewives that USian females of the 1950s and postwar ‘40s were
relentlessly conditioned to believe were their gender’s only acceptable
norms. And we should never overlook the fact the private-schooled,
Ivy-League-graduate aristocrats who serve the ruling class as its
intelligence analysts were unquestionably well-educated enough to
recognize the spontaneous and often unwitting resurrection of the
Goddess by an entire generation as a burgeoning threat to patriarchy –
no doubt the underlying reason for Operation CHAOS
(caps as in original). If I could see it all with nothing more than
journalistic curiosity shaped by a solidly proletarian education
bolstered by supplemental reading, there's no doubt an aristocracy
carefully spoon-fed a vastly superior quality and depth of learning
could do likewise.
Not surprisingly, the girls and women of allegedly extra-terrestrially inspired Nazi Germany were subjected to misogynistic conditioning
notably similar to that which was (temporarily) overthrown here in USia
by feminists and elsewhere on the planet by Marxians and democratic
socialists.
But that brain-warping
oppressiveness is now being everywhere restored with such vengeful
permanence it is obvious the Goddess-centered anti-patriarchal
revolution I joyfully predicted in "Dancer" will never be allowed. Here
in USia, it was in fact slain in its infancy by the government and its nazi-minded auxiliaries.
And now, a half-century later, every humanitarian effort our species
ever attempted anywhere on the planet is methodically targeted for
suppression.
Thus it should surprise no one the Christonazis and their
Neoconfederate allies are re-imposing maximized misogyny as a key part
of their MAGA scheme. Their overseas allies are doing likewise in their
own domains. Prohibiting abortion, banning birth control and formal persecution of alleged violators are just the opening atrocities of USian encouragement in what amounts to a globally expanding pogrom against women.
Nor have the Counterculture’s once-promisingly beneficent legacies
remained unbesmirched by the aforementioned good/evil dichotomy that
sooner or later seems to contaminate all mass movements with venomously
contradictory identities which ultimately kill or at least neutralize a
movement simply because they are too impossibly confusing for most
humans to resolve. Once-presumably species-saving environmentalism has
thus evolved an academic sub-cult that claims our only salvation is
genocide, specifically the extermination – probably by bio-weaponry – of 90 percent of the human population,
a thoroughly documented conviction that nevertheless remains
unspeakable outside the hard right, never mind it has summered in USian
environmental colleges at least since the early ‘80s. Feminism has
meanwhile fallen prey to what might be termed the Valerie Solanas virus, to which I no doubt over-react because – just as Solanas would have murdered Andy Warhol and an associate – so would my birthmother have slain my father and me.
Both women were well educated and
academically accomplished; in 1933 or ‘34 – I’ve forgotten which – my
birthmother was one of the first three women to graduate from Michigan
State with a BA degree in urban planning and landscape architecture. But
while Solanas chose a day of no particular cosmic significance for her crimes – it was 3 June 1963 – my birthmother selected the Summer Solstice Eve of 1945 for her premeditated effort at post-partum abortion and her spontaneous attempt to murder my father when he intervened to save my life. The best evidence indicates she planned my slaying to pay the
Satanic debt she believed she had acquired by bargaining with a demon
to ensure the pregnancy by which she ensnared my father in marriage.
Alleged supernatural elements aside, my birthmother’s thwarted but
always potentially murderous anti-male hatred clearly mirrors the
ideology of the Valerie Solanas faction of feminists –
which my birthmother would surely have publicly embraced had she been
less fanatical in her vindictively hypocritical struggle to preserve her
lifelong lies of psychological normalcy and socioeconomic superiority. A
recognizably similar constancy of broad-spectrum hatred fuels the
wanna-be mega-holocaust deadliness of the salvation-by-genocide cult of
environmentalists and the mass murders that are becoming part of
everyday human life. Its apocalyptic intensity, of a magnitude seemingly
without peer in our species’ experience, parallels the cannibalistic behavior of over-stressed and underfed lab rats.
I believe it is a symptom of the global pandemic of self-obsessed moral
imbecility that increasingly infects our entire species, the same
affliction that enables the entire global ruling class – literally every
.01 Percenter no matter whether capitalist or socialist – to justify
waging their war of ecogenocidal extermination against our entire
species. I've no doubt its truth is to be found in how imperialism
perpetuates the morally imbecilic dynamics of patriarchy: just as some
tribal chieftains and their modern-day quisling counterparts guaranteed
their own survival by serving as their conquerors’ slavemasters, so
might our masters seek to perpetuate their survival by functioning as
vassals of extraterrestrial insectoid or reptilian masters, thus
volunteering as the commanders, overseers, executioners and guards of
slave-plantation/death-camp earth.
When I consider the impending loss of all human achievement atop the
nullification of untold millennia of evolutionary advancement, I am left
with a grief so bottomless no language can describe it. Nor can any
quantity of tears relieve it. The Goddess herself – that is, our Mother Earth –
is obviously dying; the atrocities and disasters that increasingly
beset us are undeniably both her proclamations of our irreversibly
looming extinction and – as she twitches and spasms like any other victim of rape and murder – her own increasingly violent agonies of death.
LB/25 September-13 October 2023
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