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Friday, April 5th, 2019
Chapter One: Archetype
Ex nihilo nihil fit. From nothing, nothing comes.
To foment
revolution is to cultivate a thing, to do it successfully the revolutionary must
play on narrative; with ritual, symbol and myth. Every moment in the story of
the revolution must be recorded and preserved for its narrative power.
Through
cultivation of the story, even the most mundane moments can become the most
powerful symbols. When ritualized they can become memories of oppression, or
songs of triumph.
A simple
meal, breaking bread, such instances can become the basis of a religious
experience, experiences that when reenacted, relived, will echo through the
millennia shaping the course of civilizations.
To
cultivate this thing requires that people see themselves as heroic
archetypes, no matter how insignificant their role in the revolution is, they
must see it as a quest, and themselves as the agent of change.
They must
view their contribution as meaningful, as necessary.
Reality is
imbued with fantasy, until the revolutionary cannot discern the difference
and they are able to see themselves at the center of the narrative.
When you
have convinced the people that the order of the universe is upheld by the
rituals they perform, then the order of the universe is susceptible to ruin.
If we are
able to tear apart the symbols that keep and define the narrative, to destroy
them, then the revolution will succeed.
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Chapter Two: Symbol
The control and management of symbology was paramount.
This is why the priesthood was elevated over the military.
The symbols of rebellion are dualistic; good and evil,
love and hate, light and dark, hot and cold, they are binary configurations
with a zero-sum resolution.
According to the symbolic narrative an individual is
either one thing or another, though in reality every person was mixed, having
qualities of each.
The motivating force behind the rebellion is the quest
for justice, the triumph of law, the elimination of despotism and the
eradication of tyranny, this was the power behind the wave, propelling it
toward its end.
The wave itself is a revolutionary image, churning and
curling from trough to crest, sweeping everything in its path away and
cleansing the shore where it crashes, leaving nothing behind except clear
smooth sand.
There could be no compromise from the point at which
the battle ensues, victory must be absolute.
Any pretense to compromise prior to the actual
engagement must only ever be a ruse, a tactic of negotiation, a series of
steps made for the sake of taking advantage of the field of combat when the
battle comes to a head.
A rebellion needs both a hero and a villain, it
requires both an object of hope and an object of wrath.
These are the sacred vessels through which the energy
of the revolution must be channeled.
One vessel contains a healing salve, a balm to ease our
pain, the other is poison, represents chaos, disorder and the reign of
monsters.
One vessels is raised as a fetish for veneration, the
other is cast down swept away and sent to the fire.
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Sunday, April 7th, 2019
Chapter
Three: Narrative
A
rebellion requires agency.
Rebellion does not spread by the experience of injustice alone,
whether from the direct experience of a victim or from the experiences of those
who bear witness to their ordeal.
The experience of suffering and the witness to it, have no more
relevance than the voice of someone screaming in the vacuum.
Rebellion spreads by the narrative that is constructed around it, by the
stories we tell about those experiences.
It is through narrative that the experience and witness of injustice
metastasizes, becoming a cancer in the body of the villainous society.
Those narrations must be rooted in truth, there must be an actual
historical referent to them, but the narrations must be told with flourish, generating
empathy among the listeners. Every single person who hears the tale or
listens to the song must be able to see and feel themselves in the place of
the victim.
They must identify with them.
It is through narrative, reinforced by the beating of the drum, in
harmonies and by striking the sacred chords that we are able to transfer the
experience of the individual, to the hearts and minds of the whole.
There is no other way to perpetuate a rebellion.
The revolution will wind down and disappear without it, becoming just
another ghost story to frighten children, it may even become co-opted by the
powers of the corrupt.
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Monday, April 8th, 2019
Chapter Four: Ritual
Religion is the ligature that binds civilization together, from the
family unit to the Galactic Empire, without religion there is nothing.
Ritual is life-force of religion.
Rituals shape the entire context of a person’s life, from the moment
they are born to the moment they die, each and every day if marked by ritual.
If a society loses its ritual structure it fall apart. When the
individual abandons their ritual behaviors, their life loses its meaning and
they quickly Perish.
In the Galactic Empire, and even on Earth, both the patriot and the
rebel shared the same songs, the same history, they shared the same stories
narrated in the same way. The only thing that differentiated their use of
these ritual forms was the different ends they were pointed to.
Everything else was the same, because the people were the same,
sharing the same hopes for themselves and their families, their friends and
their villages, the same hopes for their worlds.
Heroes were interchangeable with villains, victims with martyrs, with
the proper ritual any crime could be forgiven, and any character could be
redeemed through the ritual power of narrative, they could be purified and
forgiven.
In the end, the only thing that mattered were the stories that were
told.
That is why all of the power resided in the priesthood, they were the
arbiters of the myths, they spun the webs that connected the Empire together,
from end to end, from the tiniest world to the throne world and its portal of
the Continuum.
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Chapter Five: Myth
The promise of eternal life, of immortality, this promise is a
powerful motivator. All people are afraid of the unknown and no-one wants to
die.
To be willing to sacrifice themselves for causes that were merely
exercises in futility, as most revolutionary action was, the rebel had to be
able to see their revolutionary movement in a mythic context.
While the promise of immortality works well, it becomes far more
tangible when their perspective of the individuals view of immortality is
shaped by songs and stories, when it is folded into the ritual narrative of
the group mind.
They had to see themselves, their lives and deaths as part of a
greater movement, a thing beyond themselves, they had to be able to view
their sacrifice as something of worth, something that magnified the value of
their own lives, something that would elevate them in the imaginary world of
the afterlife, but more importantly in the hearts and the minds and the
memories of the people.
Ritual remembering was a key component for this type of conditioning,
the celebration of the honored dead, the recitation of names, the communion
of saints. All of these structures were the building blocks that a successful
rebellion had to utilize in order to progress.
All of the major religions of Earth were engineered to support these
structures, they were focused around ancestor worship, the carrying forward
of the past into the present and the projection of it into the future.
Jim prepared the vessel he was searching by layering these
expectations in the popular consciousness.
The humans of Earth were natural born revolutionaries.
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Chapter Six: Quest
The commitment to revolution had to be seeded in the human
consciousness, the quest germinating in perpetuity.
To motivate the people they had to be convinced that they were seeking
a resolution to the injustices they faced, a resolution that they might never
experience for themselves, but which would fulfill them simply for pursuing
it.
It was not the destination that mattered it was the journey, it was
not the getting there it was the going.
The rebels and the revolutionaries, had to believe they would find the
object of their hope beyond themselves. In this regard, the programming of
the human consciousness for revolutionary activity was completely in synch
with the Imperial religion.
Jim was able to hide his agenda within this framework and so it went
unnoticed by the Observers who had been assigned to watch over his work, and so
it escaped the Continuum as well.
For the revolutionary, the
quest must never end, the virtuous life consisted of the pursuit of justice,
not its realization. They had to be satisfied with this.
Jim placed all of these motifs in the collective mythology, he stirred
them up continuously. When he arrived at the end game of the breeding
program, the vessel he was searching for had to be conditioned by these
paradigms, the vessel could not question them.
He required the sacrifice of the vessel to be voluntary, the vessel
had to willingly endure the psychic trauma of billions of people crying out
in fear and pain and confusion, dying all at once.
They vessel had to be able to channel that trauma, through Jim, and
drive it like a stake through the heart of the Continuum.
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Revolution
A
revolution is a turning of the wheel.
Every
revolution had a predictable outcome, a return to the beginning.
If the
revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions the survivors must move quickly
to consolidate their power, and to set themselves up as the new overlords. To
do this they must rapidly quash all dissent. The most effective means of
doing this is the complete eradication of the remaining enemy forces.
The old
order had to be swept away, cleansed completely, man woman and child, the
entire family along every extension, to the seventh generation, everyone must
be put to the sword and consumed in the fire.
The
revolutionaries had to become tyrannical, ruling by fiat, or the old order
would reassert itself. Once the last vestiges of the enemy forces had been
rooted out, they had to cleanse their own ranks.
There was
no other way.
Cabal’s
had to be snapped, columns had to be broken. Leadership could never be shared
by those who are perpetually hungry for power.
Sometimes
this happened within a single generation, at other times it takes two or
three, but the transformation is inevitable. A revolutionary movement will
always transform itself into a despotic regime.
It becomes
what it beheld, content that it has done right.
A new rebellion
will foment, it will concentrate under pressure, and without fail the wheel
will turn again.
There is no escaping it.
It is the basic dilemma of being human.
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Section Six (a), Rebellion
Appendix Part Ten, Earth
Collected Chapters
01
Archetype
02 Symbol
03
Narrative
04 Ritual
05 Myth
06 Quest
07
Revolution
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
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