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09/25/2007
Staring back in amusement and disgust
At the Metropolitan Art Museum,
Once again the world has reminded me that it's bigger, broader, older and more fascinating than is dreamt of in my philosophy. A case in point; the things I despise, such as war and organized religion, have inspired man throughout the ages to create things of such beauty and power that I'm powerless to comprehend what force laid behind their creations.
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Is it as simple as love and hate that drove men to become so formidable with their hands and scalp things that would endure in their undiminished perfection for hundreds and thousands of years? Gods and warriors in wood, stone, bronze and gold for every step on every stair of man's ascent into heaven or descent into hell?
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Where once these totems were sacred, revered and worshiped, today they fill the display cases of even bigger display cases waiting to stare back at us. They neither understand nor comprehend our lives. We are measley and weak, they leave our kind to their women and children to butcher.>
It was once known that our duty was to die in the service of what we believed and lived. Today we are domesticated beasts blithely following the course laid down for us. We are assured that it leads to safety and security, love and happiness but to the delight of the ancient Gods, we shriek in horror as the only thing that was ever certain in the lives of men, asserts its claim over us and we become what we always were; a link in an endless chain.
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