Thursday, January 30, 1992

The Coming War

The Coming War is between forces on each side of a vast emptiness. Once markets collapse, illusions lose their strength. When money and contracts no longer can constrain antagonism, the first salvo will be launched. First, it will be a battle of vitriol, then sabre-rattling. And ultimately, each will be raised as THE Great Evil. The Great Evil is no longer one that threatens the soul. The Great Evil threatens hegemony. The Great Evil threatens to dominate, threatens to repress…threathening to displace the current machine of repression and domination. Where shall you stand in the Great War? I am at the margins. I have no home. On one side, I face patronization. I am still immature in their eyes, and always will be. On the other, I am corrupted; impure, I am infected by foreign values. I was born at the margins, and raised to aspire for the norm. What norm can exist in a time of war? But when the war comes, where can I stand? Will I be tore to shreds being pulled in infinitesimal directions? Or will I stand alone as passive observer, chronicler of the End? Here I stand …at the margin between worlds lost to each other…at the edge of a universe on the verge of annihilation.