Spring is acumen in: Eves, and their Lambs.

The End Continued: Law as Crime (31)



© Eso A. B., 2012

Blog 30: An interesting reverberation on self-sacrifice( from China). Antiwar.com  refers to an AP article in the Washington Post, re “China Website Accuses Dalai Lama of ‘Nazi-Style’ Racial Policies, advocating 'Self-Immolation.'"

The author of this series of blogs has for some time advocated the view that any self-enclosed government system (without an exit clause, by way of, for example, direct democratic elections) is innately a fascist form of government, because in its heart of hearts it (a dried out pine cone), advocates a welfare system for its own members exclusively, and is exclusionary with regard to equality to all who are not members of the government body or are in some other way outside the ‘system’.

The Chinese government is obviously a system unto itself, which  Bo Xilai  may have recently attempted to reverse.

As for the U.S. government, here is Glenn Greenwald (interviewed by Amy Goodman): on the two tiered U.S. justice system and how the U.S. President Obama praises himself for engaging in anti-constitutional activities against U.S. citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville”: “The American moralists do not profess that men ought to sacrifice themselves for their fellow creatures because it is noble to make such sacrifices, but they boldly aver that such sacrifices are as necessary to him who imposes them upon himself as to him for whose sake they are made. They have found out that, in their country and their age, man is brought home to himself by an irresistible force; and, losing all hope of stopping that force, they turn all their thoughts to the direction of it. They therefore do not deny that every man may follow his own interest, but they endeavor to prove that it is the interest of every man to be virtuous.”

However, in light of my “Oedipus Rex Rewritten” it would appear—in retrospect of course—that de Tocqueville cast himself in the role of the overly anxious mother, queen Iocaste, of Oedipus, who refused to offer her son to the opinion of the Gods to test his character as worthy of that of a future king of Thebes (or China, or America, or Latvia, or whichever leader of whatever country). De Tocqueville committed the sin of optimism without allowing that unreflective positivism may result in tragedy (also shame) for an entire community.

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Some four and a half billion years ago, there began to appear the first signs of life  on Earth.


I believe that the birth of humankind should be thought of as beginning at this time, 4.5 billion years ago, because if there is such a thing as a divine spirit [to be thought less in terms of being a supernatural phenomenon as a mathematical concept, re: an Einsteinian constant  (=life?) floating in something we may call the Possible Unknowable (=the material void?], it entered Earth’s environment not today, but back then.


The Einsteinian constant did not enter life when the first human beings (Adam and Eve) appeared or when Jesus was born or sacrificed his life when pressed to do so, but with life itself. To defer creation to the time of Adam and Eve, screws up the arguments in favour of the materialists, because such a presumption cannot be called anything but “miracle mongering” accompanied by befuddling though contortions by any number of magicians.


One such contortionist of thought today is a Slovenian philosopher named Slavoy Žižek. Žižek is a smart guy and often right on target with his criticisms. Unfortunately, he cannot resist killing the bird, he holds in the cage, twice over. That is, while he is as correct as the child, who accuses the magician of having killed the bird (instead of making it magically disappear) in the bird cage, Žižek believes that the creative process (the divine spirit in dying) starts with him, rather than having begun 4.5 billion years ago. For Žižek, this enormously long period of evolutionary history, because it is unconscious and, oh! so cautious, does not meet his snap of the fingers criteria for miracles, i.e., “man (Žižek) is the cause of God” (p.33, TMOC). Maybe there is something to meditation after all—if it teaches how to overcome the sense of time and not fear no time or a billion years squeezed into a passing moment.


If divinity entered Earth’s environment with the beginnings of the first signs of life, then it leaves both the theists and atheists puzzed (?drowning in the Possible Unknowable) and without the ability to deliver a believable answer. This is not to deny that it took divinity a long time to manifest itself as a paranormal event (a story that manages to become an event)—when a human being first acts as if God or Gods exist on the basis of no other resources than one’s subjective mind.


There are thinkers, however, who deny that an entry of the divine spirit into human beings occurs with the arrival of life on Earth. I believe this view is mistaken, which mistake is supported by my ‘rewritten’ Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex Rewritten”. While I agree that the events surrounding the death of Jesus are unique, the uniqueness is not all that different from the ‘failed’ death of Oedipus (the story missing from the Freudian explanation), which, too—after all is said and done—arises out of the demand by a community of Thebes for a death by self-sacrifice, because it assures it of the Holy Ghost that will guarantee it its existence.


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That my ‘rewrite’ should appear at this precise moment of history (1955-2012) necessarily asks if this is in response to a cry from within the community out of a yet unverbalized need. In other words, the theme hidden behind the words “The Wealth Virus” is that the continued existence of a community depends as much on the actualization of the act of self-sacrifice as it depends on the ‘holy ghost’ or charisma that exudes from the act and binds its witnesses through the regeneration of a 4.5 billion year old pact originally known as An Ode to Joy.

Will you tell what future awaits us?

Hid Behind A False Name and Chronology. (16)

The forest and winter behind my house.

© Eso A. B., 2012

To tie men to a T was once common punishment. Thus tied, men and women were often killed by stoning, arrows, spears, fire, or garrot.

When the time arrived that T or Tau became an instrument of death not only for common men and women, but to which VIPs were tied also, it necessitated that it become an symbol elevated above the mundane, and was therefore embelished with an overhead inscription. The more titled the victim, the more the words on the inscription. This was the time when the T was extended along its vertical axis. The most important inscription of which we know is Jesus’s INRI, or “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”.

Whether the King of the Jews was Jezus of Nazareth is not as sure a certainty as orethodox believers would like everyone to think. There remain many questions where Jesus came from and wherefrom his name. Could the name have come by way of a pareidolic intercession from the name Basil? That is, from Basil to Vasil< Vazil< Yazil< Yezu? It may be that the bloodshed that was to come later as if on Basil’s behalf, was a consequence of an attempt to impose on the public mind another name, the original of which name may have been John or one of John’s innumerable cognates, such as Yan, Ian, Ivan, Van (Vanyka). Jon, Johann, Hans, Huan, Wotan (Yon-tan/ Jonathan), etc.

Readers who are not committed to standarticized and  ethicized orthodox beliefs may not find it so strange to discover that John, also known as John the Baptist or John the Anointer (Healer, because once in Egypt an Embalmer of corpses), not only may have preceded Jesus, but may have been displaced by Jesus. The latter would have happened because the numinosity of Jesus’s  name may have given him a great hold over the imagination of the people. Since Jesus is said to have been a carpenter, the name—by way of anomatopeia—may have triggered  an association with a saw, such as Jee-zus, Jee-zus. Since the name of John is also associated with rejuvenation, as in the winter and suummer solstice of January (according to the old 13 month calendar) and June, a replacement of his name with that of another, was enough to replace the name of the arch-Christian John  altogether.

The reader may by now recognize the method by which the absurd is imposed on the public as a sociaty-wide belief.

In this blog series, we began with the men of the Ona tribe of Fierro del Fuego, who forced their fantasy of themselves as Gods on their entire tribe by murdering their women (and possibly children). Death is not happily met with if dying is presented as a gruesome, and painful event forced on humankind in order to cause it to accept something normally percieved as absurd. Worse, once fear forces the door open and seeps into our brain matter, it may spread like a virus not only through our  organism, but mind-memes may distribute it throughout our entire society.

Such a development serves a ruling elite to keep its wealth and priviledges to itself through pseudo “laws”, which, among other things, inhibits subjective and private thoughts.

The 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th centuries are examples of times when humankind finds itself under the influence of fear and terror. Such a state of mind causes unreason to be dominant at all social levels, the scientific and scholarly including. Though scientific achievements at this time may have been significant, the timidity of scholars and scientists in the face of fear and terror is unlikely to be more forthright with the governing bodies of the state than ordinary citizenss.

If repression of the mind in MesoAmerica began with the murder of women in Tierro del Fuego, we must also ask where and how it began on the Euro-Asian landmass? There is no easy answer, of course. However, the reason for this may not be because of difficulties of logic, but because the chronology of history of the so-called West is arbitrary and cannot be depended on.

The question of chronology of history as presented by the historians of the West is suspect not only because of the rule of fear and terror in the West, but because interests of the terrorizers have prevailed to our own time. At least, some knowledgeable minds, ever since Newton have expressed considerable doubts about the accuracy of historical chronology. We will see possibilities for alternative chronologies reflected in the subject matter of upcoming blogs.

Farts as Gods (15)

The Saw-Cross.

© Eso A. B., 2012

Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, brought with him to the New World not only advanced weapons (cannons and attack dogs), but a story that told that the dead, the sacrificed, those whom the Aztecs had torn their hearts out (prisoners, women, fhildren), would someday rise from the dead.

The Aztecs must have been amazed at the story’s daring, its unflinching make-believe, and straight-faced lie.

Of course, there is no record of what the Aztecs really thought, because the conceit of the Roman story tellers had already not only succeeded in imposing censorship on the subjective thoughts of any natives, but had persuaded themselves of the truth of their bold lie. The conquistadores or crusaders had imposed the same Truth (on penalty of death) on the people of the Near East and what we know today as Russia, Greece, etc. Their wilfull misconstruction and violation of the Arch-Christian belief (that self-sacrifice (sacrificing one’s self to God and one’s self) was the only way to create the charisma that bonded one’s community) was the cause of what became known as the “Great Schism”. Unfortunately, in the oral period of history and when books were copied by long-hand,, such a lie would was soon forgotten. Later, with the arrival of the  printing press, lies became especially creative and were preserved by multiplication and the art of copying.

If the historian who claims that today we live in days when history has ended is not quite right, he, nevertheless, is correct in so far as his claim suggests that today history has been turned into pure boredom through every day being pretty much the same as the day before and after, ‘ad infinitum’.

Today the Russian Orthodox Church, once the opposite pole of the ‘Great Schism’,  too, has let the days of its glory be ground down under the wheels of the Popemobile, and if once human life was believed to be God’s gift, then the mechanic of the contemporary Popemobile, one Žižek, has quite managed to turn faith into limp spaghetti. Which is not to say that Žižek is capable of self-sacrifice. The philosopher waves the want, but is caught as if dead by a photograph, which stops the deed of faith a fraction short of happening.

Surprisingly, the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus met with little resistance in Mexico. This was not because of the superior violent ways of the newly arrived conquistadores with which they impressed the Aztecs, but because the people of Tenochtitlan had already lived in an urban environment (implicitly violent) for some time. Though the Meso American urban environment did not manifest itself around a market place, a government building, it—like any urban environment—is artificial by nature and, ipso facto, warps the mind with numerous conceits and make-believes.

An additional reason why an unbelievable story succeeds in imposing itself on the mind of an urban landscape, is that it is a long long distance from being an egalitarian environment. An environment that is not egalitarian is habituated to artifice, and is constructed in the shape of a pyramid of wealth. In order to keep the pyramid functioning, its cap (the abode of the elites) must keep finding new ways to mete death to the populace below its golden rim, the matter below defined by a weaponized castle wall.

The remotenes of life in a city differentiates the city from life in the forest and field. The remoteness not only makes city life more vulnerable to accepting artifice as a matter of course, but does this because it avoids the natural environment altogether.

Footwear (a basic) is a good example. In the forest, a primitive loafer may be made of wood bark such as that of a linden tree, which bark when soaked easily flexes and bends. Too, a loafer may be hand woven from straw or hemp fibre. In the city, people are likely to want to mask such a loafer’s rough appearance by either carving it out of wood or making it of leather or enclosing it in a decorative cover.

The story of the Life of Jesus, just as the story of Kirtimukhti (see blog 14) has endured many changes. Unfortunately, the changes are not always immediately apparent. Elements of older or other versions of the same story are cleverly woven into a new version. A good example of this is how the unpromising GodNanaautzin (the pimply one, suffering from venereal disease) was able to after fifty-two years of near total  night make rise the Fifth Aztec Sun.

David Carrasco: “’When no sun had shone and no dawn had broken,’ the gods gathered at Teotiahacan to create a new age. They asked: ‘Who will carry the burden? Who will take upon himself to be the sun, to bring the dawn?”

After Nanautzin had bravely dressed himself for ceremonial suicide (self-sacrifice), he and a snail approach the huge fire pit into which he and the snail are supposed to jump to cause sunrise and put the Fifth Sun into motion:

“Onward thou, O, Nanautzin! [Shout the witnessking Gods.] Take heart! [Žižek!]”

The story teller continues: “Nanautzin, daring all at once, determined-resolved-hardened his heart, and shut firmly his eyes. He had no fear, he did not stop short; he did not falter in fright; he did not turn back. [He did not take example from the snail.]

“All at once, he quickly threw and cast himself into the fire; once and for all he went. Thereupon he burnt, his body crackled and sizled….

“Then the gods sat waiting to see where Nanautzin would come to rise—he who fell first into the fire—in order that he might  shine as the sun, in order that dawn might break. When the gods had sat and been waiting for a long time, thereupon began the reddening (of the dawn;) in all directions….” [‘City of Sacrifice,’ David Carrasco, p.79.)

Of course, this is not how Jesus died. Why should we trust the canonical version of Jesus’s death, if the only reason for accepting it is fear of government violence? Indeed, is the government not of the same men as those who in the men’s ceremonial house on the on the island of Fierro del Fuego’s demanded their women and children to believe them to be their Gods?