"Hail Satan?" (2019)

[vulcanlogician]

Right, well, I think shits are shits. If they lack philosophy then they are just directionless shits. If they are rowdy and belligerent directionless shits then they are contemptible. 

If they are just pissing at whatever they dislike, then their goals may be fractionally better (if they listen to NPR rather than Fox, for example) but in their actions and in their selves they are no better than your average Trump voter. 

Deracinated shits who are 99.999% the same as the rest of American philosophy-less rowdy shits. The urge to épater les bourgeois has never fallen so low. 

I genuinely hope that at least a few of them are better than this. 

And for those few who can read, let them ditch the cos-play for a genuinely challenging rebel like Simone Weil, a Christian.

I'd laugh, but I fear that 99.9x% of Americans really ARE "rowdy and belligerent directionless shits."

I've learned to love a great many of them though. You gotta look past the surface sometimes. Then you'll find something worth loving.

That goes for political movements as well as individuals.

The Lebanese poet, Gibran, wrote a poem about looking past the surface. It's one of my favorites. Maybe you'll like it too.



"Faces"

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.

I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was.

I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.