Enfants hybrides du chaos et de la pensée 3 comments

4 Sep 2005 @ 02:03, by Uncle Remus Rois et chefs, leur dis-je, vous avez été choisis pour sièger à cette table parce que vous êtes des hommes de pouvoir. Mais vous ne savez rien, ou presque, du pouvoir. Vous n'en connaissez que les causes simples, vaincre ou être vaincu, et les effets élémentaires, l'autorité ou la servitude, la possession ou la privation, la jouissance ou la mort. Les bêtes sauvages en savent autant, et en cela vous ne vous distinguez pas d'elles, car la conscience qui a été donnée à l'homme ne vous sert qu'à aggraver, par les calculs de l'intelligence, la férocité naturelle et universelle, ce qui fait que la domination, l'agressivité, l'antagonisme, la ruse, la chasse et le meurtre, qui sont les lois de la matière, deviennent le despotisme, la cruauté, la haine, la trahison, la guerre et le massacre, qui sont les lois de l'esprit au service de la matière. Mais vous avez été choisis aussi parce que vous passez pour justes et loyaux aux yeux de vos peuples et que, enfants hybrides du chaos et de la pensée, à cause de ce qu'il y a en vous d'ordre divin enfoui dans l'arbitraire et la violence, vous pourrez peut-être établir un nouveau pouvoir, un pouvoir qui ne sera plus au service de l'homme qui le détient, mais au service de l'homme en général, et qui fera plier le roi lui-même, quels que soient ses vertus et ses vices. La guerre ne fait que commencer. Mais ce n'est plus la guerre d'une ambition contre une autre. C'est la guerre du droit contre la force, de la lumière contre l'obscurité, de l'esprit contre la nature, de Satan contre l'ignorance et de Dieu conte sa propre création. Vous êtes des instruments de mort, et je ferai de vous des instrument d'éternité. Vous êtes la nuit, et vous serez un jour sans fin. Vous êtes le tumulte, et vous serez la loi. Vous êtes le vide, et vous serez le sens du monde et sa conscience. Vous êtes l'âge de fer, et vous préparerrez la venue d'un âge d'or qui selon moi n'a jamais été, mais qui, par vous, pourra être. Michel Rio: Merlin

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7 Feb 2006 @ 19:17 by i2i : Drive for Power
Hi, I have just read the quote, above, from Michel Rio's Merlin, it is a funny coincidence that at about the time I was reading it I saw the mug of W on tv, and I thought, my gosh, that man is incredible, he endures, he keeps going, he doesn't lie down in defeat. What motivates him? Whatever power it is seems to be very effective in creating a survival mode for its followers. And I'm not talking about Jesus here. I think the motivating power is power itself. Greed, the requirement to be ahead of everyone, to own all the toys, to be on top. The entire survivor mentality. Forget justice, fairness, kindness, charity. Those forces will not keep you going. Look at him. He will never back down. There are no values, no need for judgment. Just force. That's what works. What a sad state of affairs for our world. The people who think about stuff and wonder whether or not they're right, those are the ones who go down.  

Well, yes, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Mankind’s burden. Caught between heaven and earth, Humanity wrestling its way off the muck that still holds it back to the raw bestiality of earlier stages in the evolution of Life on planet Earth.



It is a spiritual fight. Justice is not part of nature---"survival of the fittest" is Evolution's operating principle, a dynamic that has nothing to do with justice---justice is a human concept. Natural selection brought toolmakers about (mankind,) and with toolmaking came "civilization," and with civilization came some of the concepts of which you are speaking, justice, fairness, kindness, charity. It's about conscious evolution. This is what the myth of the Knights of the Round Table (and other like it) are about. Such myths are deeply imbedded in humanity's culture and, I suspect, in our collective unconscious. Life is always thriving for growths and new grounds and increasing complexity, and, yes,...survival! And the old ways, the mentality you are speaking of, "greed, the requirement to be ahead of everyone, to own all the toys, to be on top," etc. are no longer compatible with our survival. Man will evolve, or he/she will perish. This is how life works.

That quote by Michel Rio is very much at the crux of what is at stake here. It has been for a long time. Personally, I believe there are more sentiently evolved ways to go about in the world than through "might makes right" - this is what the story of Camelot and the knight of the Round Table is all about. As for those who fall, "the people who think about stuff and wonder whether or not they're right," those are the one who lead the way. King Arthur and his knights, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., etc., they all went down, you're right, but what a blazing trail they've left (yet, history records that all of them were full of doubts - including Jesus.)  

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