Letters to the Editor
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Eschatology vs. The Omega Point
While our deluded messianic President dissolves in a ball of phlegm, it is assumed that as many as 30 per cent of the American Public, who fully expect him to usher in The Rupture (my preferred term for the Christian End of the World pre-show). I actually fully expect that Tielhard de Chardin will win this one. Yes, a (dead)Catholic priest, but also a scientist, a Christian mystic and poet, once regarded by his own church as a heretic for having denounced not only Darwin but Creationism in his quest for "the tiller of the Universe" will likely have the last say. This is because Tielhard believed that if enough people achieve enlightenment in a given area of concern, they would, like physical matter, pull the rest across the Rubicon with them, in effect completing the transformation of man. In this case, on a much smaller scale (and hopefully sooner than the date both Tielhard and Terrence McKenna chose - 2012), I sincerely believe we as a people will shortly have reached, due to the mind-boggling arrogance, ignorance and narcisism the President and his entire posse of human vultures have inflicted on us all, that tipping point that will pull the rest of the populace with them - with US - back to the center, and the center will most certainly hold. To quote Hemingway's Mayor in "The Moon Is Down": "The people do not like to be conquered, sir, and so they won't."
If Bush (I cringe to attach "President" to that name) can see himself in apocalyptic terms and Blumenthal can couch his observations in similarly cosmic ones, I don't see why we should not see our impending uprising and victory over the current madness as anything less than a grand triumph of the spirit. The more esoteric religions of the world - Sufism, Coptic Christianity, and most certainly Primitive Christianity and the Egyptian Mystery Schools - see a necessity to be brought down to nothing, to be virtually destroyed, in order to be reborn. Whether it is the Democratic Party that is reborn, or merely Critical Thinking, our national pride was struck a huge blow on 9/11/2001, but what has been done to this nation and the world in the interim has taken us down to the bare metal. The last few pathetic hangers-on no longer have the power to persuade good people to simply stand by and hope the Wrong Numbers will give us the right answer. A day of reckoning is coming, for sure, but it won't be the glorification of the current idiocy, nor of what Bill Burroughs called "pure educated evil." It will be the transformative power of a center that has held through our own first Revolution, our first Civil War and our Three Strikes (Viet Nam, Desert Storm and the current fiasco). When the turnover comes,it won't be a vision of Dubya triumphant seen in the clouds, but the face of God (you should forgive the term), in our neighbor's, our own salvation by our own hands despite our own delayed development.
The end truly is near - for the soul-less idiot irresponsibles who have helped us to this turning point. For the rest of us I see a beginning at last visible on the horizon. As for the rest, may their god have mercy on their souls, because their ass is ours.