Pensées (21)
Demonising present day bogeymen; Tankies and Young Ones; Lisa;
⚡️A reader responding to my use of the word “demon” in Pensées (19) to describe those embodying the divisive forces in English and American politics writes:
To which I respond:
In early Iranian religion demons and gods are opposed like black and white. Ahyryaman, Zarathustra/Zoroaster's creation (who gives their name to Iran) seems to start out as a manifestly bad demon.
In early Indian religion demons do not have the negative connotation we sometimes attach to them. Demons and Deities are merely two different power centres.
I take the early Indian meaning of Demon. The Magician Sorcerer then helps keep a balance between the Gods and the Demons in the Rg Vedas and in the Mahabharata.
Unlike in early Iran, Demons aren't to be defeated, the balance between Demons and Deities in India is kept by the Magi Sorcerers. Out of that vision was born the first Brahmin priest/Magi/Sorcerer and eventually the Brahmin caste.
As an aside, those of you who also real Power of Mana will immediately notice that Demon is an M-N word:
Anyway, it is held that the Indian vision is closer to the original Indo-European idea. Whereas, Zarathustra's (~ 1400 BCE) reforms turned it into this black and white vision of Good vs Evil. This seeped in Babylonia, and hence into the Christian vision/bible.
Interestingly, "Ahryaman," "Demon," "Brahmin," and "Monarch" are all M-N- words (see powerofmana.net).
We on Twitter try, on a ongoing basis, to keep this balance too! No final victories, as the Zarathustrian/Iranian vision suggests will come. Instead, harmony is an ever lasting competition between Deities and Demons which we through our Good Work (e.g. through proper sacrifice) can help maintain.
Part of my project is to help us see the contemporary Disinfolklore characters occupying negative positions in our information space as manifestation of ancient Indo-European archetypes. This helps us connect with for example words like “Demon” and “Deity.”
It helps us see the validity of these ancient conceptual categories in today’s world. We have a tendency to see the characters affecting our information space as individual beings apart from their function. Once we see demons like Trump or Farage or Ruschia or Putin… as merely new wine in old bottles we can look into the ancient texts for guidance.
We might see in these texts which are the recordings of the foundational world views of the first Indo-Europeans whose language, grammar, religion, and culture we still manifest, mostly unknowingly, a better guide for interpreting instances of Disinfolklore in our hyper-modern (too much, and never enough) information space than we’ll find in newspaper columnists, troll farms, or press releases.
⚡️Young Ones star Nigel Planer discovered his father was Jewish and had escaped from the Nazis.
I expect NigelPlaner1 would have a thing or two to teach uber tankie AlexeiSaylePod, who played a scouser communist on the Young Ones.
Sayle, probably without speaking to someone like me who spent seven years as a diplomat in eastern Ukraine trying to get the Ruschists to stick to its Minsk duties, alas fell into a Ruschist Disinfolklore trap.
⚡️On the first anniversary of Lisa’s death. Lisa’s mother had just dropped Lisa at her kindergarten in Vinnytsia. A Ruschist Kalibr missile struck, and killed Lisa.
⚡️How To Recognise A Good Russian / Good Russophile.
Good Russians know to remain quiet for a time.
Good Russians / Russophiles understand they don't need to explain The Good Russian's Perspective, until after the war.
They do not try to share a stage with Ukrainians, or upstage Ukrainians in sports.
Good Russians, like Germans after 1945, understand that penance through silence is what's called for at the moment.
Good Russians acknowledge (silently) that they have had two centuries of eclipsing Ukrainians.
Perhaps, the very definition of a Good Russian, at this time, may be one who refuses to appear alongside a Ukrainian for fear of eclipsing the Ukrainian.
Good Russians get that from now on, our policy towards Russia is actually our policy towards Ukraine. Russia has had two centuries in the sun. That time has now passed.
Here's an example of a note a Good Russian left somewhere after Lisa was murdered in her kindergarten by a Ruschist missile. This is all we need to hear from Good Russians:
Lisa: Forgive Us.
Instead what we hear from Good Russians are pleas for a Marshall Plan for post-war Russia, and moans about NAFO Plushie sharks.
