VV(12) - Choosing Victimization

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 21 20:59:12 CST 2001


When faced with a hopelessly overwhelming force, dominating and indifferent, 
or maybe even enjoying the pain of its victims, when one's choices lay only 
in adopting an inward attitude - not in effecting any change to one's 
hopeless fate, when VICTIM is an inevitable identity, THEN one may chose to 
love one's fate, to become a Stellar Victim.

The classic martyr is very similar to this person except that this Stellar 
Victim changes all the rule within her/his own person.  The SV is no longer 
a victim, but a participant, in fact an almost equally enjoying patron in 
this pleasure/pain play.  The SV denies the Master his pleasure in sipping 
another's pain.  In fact the strength of the SV is a horrifying specter, 
ever sub-rosa threatening to kill all the while providing horns-full of dark 
pleasures.

Blicero is not the SV, but he is closely related.  He relates closely to the 
victim.  That is why we love him so.


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