THE WHOREDOM MANIFESTOThus came the age of reason: Man woke up one day, looked out of the window and saw its bars, and said: "My Kind has made these bars, but I'm stuck behind them and cannot walk beyond my room". Man attacked the base of the bars and proceeded to unseal them, a task that took him all day. But Man, absorbed in his task, forgot to gaze upon the opposed wall, where the door was. Once the bars were removed, Man looked out, and saw that the ground was far away. "Alas, why is my Kind wingless, how can I otherwise reach the ground?" he wailed. And, taking a deep breath, he jumped, forgetting to look at the door and the stairs that were behind. He fell to the ground, wounding his feet and knees. He started walking, limping along a road paved with stones. But it was dark, and cold, because Man had spent all day getting rid of the bars. The stones were frozen and sharp edged, and soon the feet of Man were bloodied and full of bruises. Man lamented: "Behold, my Kind made this road, why did it made it so unfriendly and unforgiving?". He kept on walking and lamenting, without thinking that he had forgot to put his shoes on before jumping out the window. At dawn, Man looked around and saw that the road was lined with gentle slopes and soft grass. Man said, "Alas, my Kind built this exhausting road, without thinking that walking through the meadows is more bearable". And he turned and walked on the grass, unaware that he was getting farther and farther from the path. Thus Man reached the top of a hill, and stopped to look around. He looked North, and saw white mountains and storm clouds; he looked South, and saw clouds of dust and sand on the horizon. He looked Eastward, but could not discern anything, because the morning sun blinded him; he looked Westward, which was where he came from, but only saw hills and meadows. Man lamented, "Oh, why did not my Kind build a landmark on this hill? Behold, from here I do not know where to head ". And he walked astray, forgetting that he had left a path. […] Whoredom of the Golden Age of Man, is it not evident in each and every physical, ethical, moral or cultural constructions of the past era? Man has already reached the peak of his vanity, the greatest and most terrible heresy of all: worshiping himself. Gone are the ying and yang, God and Satan, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman: the culmination of the Age of Reason emerges in the futile hope that a human being can achieve perfection through its own greatness, a human being able to be perfect waiving any dogma and enunciating the validity of any fruit of its own neural tracts. Thus, while proclaiming a burlesque "anything can be good", Man reaches a "nothing is true" and then a "create your own truth" that is his and no one else's; without bearing in mind that even proclaiming an absolute Nihil, modern Man is still ruled by established social patterns. These guidelines are Age of Reason degenerations of past moral codes. They are unwritten conventions that determine, on behalf of a "greater good", a foolish and prosperous society that forgets that its social norms are rooted in the bloodiest conflicts and that any law is necessarily the resolution of a dispute and is the ultimate revenge. Man wants a truth tailor-made to each individual, a world in which all personal longings can be made real, and any fair aspiration is a product of his mind. However, has this improved the misery of human condition? Has Reason done anything for the sake of human happiness, or for the simple state of existence? Reason: what a pretentious, ridiculous term... Reason is Truth, and Truth is beyond the reach of Man. The latter persists in believing that he is good, that he is above other living beings. He stubbornly insists on naming, defining, owning and giving sense to everything he finds, creating sciences out of nothing, building castles in the air, in a vain attempt to understand why does he need to think about these things, why is he not content to merely exist. In the depths of his soul, Man is aware of the enormity of his fall, and this is reflected in each of his sorrows, failures, disappointments, moral and ethical dilemmas. If that is the product of an evolution, of a reasoning... How to understand this gravitation towards such a monumental weakness? Modern Man thinks peace, order and equality are possible. He is so vain that he is able to believe in concepts such as tolerance, solidarity, fairness and pacifism to build a better world, without realizing that this takes him away from the bloodstained mechanisms of action-reaction that have maintained a balance of empires, tribes and nations for millennia. A delusion of a New World Order, understanding and collaboration between all faiths, religions and colors, a gigantic blow that, by means of equating all with all, eliminates any ambition or desire to excel. There cannot be an Identity without a fight for it, without effort or work; if any point of view is good, what is left to fight for? The easy way to doubts or to "Unbearable Inanity of Being" is to proclaim that there is no road, no goals and no values, that we are here by the mere aggregation of atoms and chemical processes. Yet this does not explain why Man asks himself these questions, it still leaves a gigantic void in the consciousness of being. We are not here to advocate Genocide, Violence, War or Famine as solutions; in the same way that a biologist does not advocate ecosystems as modus vivendi, or the fish supports water; this is simply a confirmation of Reality as it is and as it has been in the brief history of Man. Pretending to sweep, with the stupid illusion of intellectual superiority, these elements of the equation, is no less than destabilizing a precarious equilibrium that has the violence of Man against Man as its starting point and that has remained functional during the past 30.000 years. Doing it in the name of progress is insulting: any progress for the sake of economical benefit is destructive, and any progress towards a greater understanding of the World does nothing but increase the philosophical reasons of why Man feels lost; increasingly moving away from the original truth of Man's fall that is conflict and fear, cornerstones of human society. Certainly relations between human beings are based on violence, and there is nothing in the supposed human nature that can truly be called "desire for peace". The only way to understand or support this is either through Nihilism, or believing in moral principles based on a different level from human instincts’. Man needs to balance his desire to dominate with his fear of ceasing to exist. Man requires an action outwards that, besides giving meaning to his life, reaffirms him in his egocentric role. Man needs also, paradoxally, to be part of a herd that makes him feel protected, that bloats his neck out of satisfaction and superiority, up from an unreachable point in the middle of the crowd. Man needs, unconsciously, War: the final eradication of the adversary, of another flock, of the reflection of himself which he loathes, fears and hates because it reminds him of his mediocrity, only dressed in another color. Man needs to be the one who triumphs over himself, he needs to show off to the eyes of others and ultimately to himself, that he is a leading part of the pack. Vain practice, since in rough seas raindrops all have the same value and the same insignificance. The beginning and end of all things is, therefore, a conflict: first against himself and then against the other, in a futile attempt to appease his self-inflicted hatred, to forget his fall, his awareness of being and existence, and his fear of reality and life. This is a necessary Conflict, a birthing conflict, an ongoing conflict, an Alpha and omega conflict. Such is the fate of Man, a perpetual war against himself and against others, a violence that begins and ends at the same time and the same rate as life. We are not here not to propose a radical action: the clay-feet giant always falls by itself. The gigantic cloud of the Age of Reason is already overflowing from the pit, the weight of Truth and Violence drags the idealistic balloon to the bottom of the well. Man reaps what he sows, which is precisely what he, ironically, fears: the fair Destruction. We do not propose any solution to the problem. The greatest the fall is, the less the drag to mankind. The biggest destruction is, the more the purity, since everything that comes out of Man is corruption and vanity. This is not an opinion, it is a fact. It may seem ironic to speak of Retaliation, of Retribution, of Divine Vengeance... However it is not so much if we take a look back and coldly behold the pendulum oscillations caused by ideologies in humanity. Each Empire, each War, each Religion, each social change was an aberration on the list of obscene ricochets performed by Man on this earth. Genocide, Violence, War, Hate, Death... Are neither the solution nor the problem, but an intrinsic part of humanity. They are Justice from an ethical and historical point of view, and no matter how Man tries to hide this, the hidden part is always larger than the apparent. May Man understand this someday: THERE IS NO PEACE. |
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