Rockets & Blasphemy.2 0f 20
Terrance F. Flaherty
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 17 09:10:33 CDT 2000
In contrast, the Rocket, represents the immanetism ( in the
religious sense of theories postulating that a deity, mind,
or spirit is immanent in the world and in the individual) of
the absolute that is ostensibly attainable. Sad indeed, for
the conflation of the Herero conception of an "absolute
reality" at the Center has been corrupted and become the
gnostic path to inhabiting this Center perpetually within
the terms of this life. This is why Weissmann is so
important, we will get to that white asshole soon. What They
have done here is what They have done in Africa and as we
discover in M&D and VL to a lesser extent, everywhere else
They "conquer." They fabricate a pornographic dream of
perfection realizable against or outside of nature's proven
beneficence. Their motivation is, as Enzian discovers, not
love, but technology, power, control, domination total. So
the poor Herero left-overs are disoriented, contentious,
desperate, the lost tribes of men, yes because We are those
Lost tribes that wander in the Zones. How sad indeed. And
to think some would point a finger at YOU, dear sympathetic
reader. You are not a character in this fiction, just
another pathetic example of the disorder and confusion
attendant upon those sad characters that attempt
desperately to implement some barely recognizable fragment
of your ancestor's beautiful philosophy and way of life
profaned with gnostic magic towered over by technology and
powerful malevolence towards your Mother Earth and the
Virgin.
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