The Medium is the Message: Out of Africa, The Gods Must Be Crazy   

By Amma Birago 

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us---for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

—Nietzsche: Parable of the Madman, 1882.

 
Nietzsche's Madman. Blake must have seen him coming.
... And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
 
Blake must have seen Nietzsche's madman coming. It is the reason why in 1789, the ink on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen not yet dry, Blake wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

The Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
A higher history than all history hitherto.

Dispossession. It is the one theme and the one question that snags up on everything I have known, believed in or learned. Dispossession. The pain body of the body politic. The collective consciousness.

There is a thing about dispossession and the dispossessed. An in-built repetition compulsion, inherent in peoples dispossessed culturally or psychically.

Dispossession. It is the inherent fear and avoidance of therapy, of the healing process, also the spiritual component of the medicine, and so a compulsive self-infliction of the pain, each time as though it was happening for the first time, each occurrence an attempt to erase evidence or deny the existence of the primal pain. Each time, as though the first time, virginal to dispossession.

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

On Dispossession.

The ultimate syndrome of dispossession. The poster child.

The possession in dispossession. Why the dispossessed dispossess. The un/mis-guided attempt at ritual.

The dispossessed state is an inherent fear of spirit-possession, the taking over of the ego-free zone by means of ritual, of ritual, whether structured, designed or not.

The dispossessed state is not at ease but dis-eased in the face of loss of control. The dispossessed state full-grown does not but seed and give birth to the dragon, and soon, here and there, and every which way the dragon rears its head, and strikes at the breast and bowels of humanity.

On the Persistence of the Past. Celia Brickman.
If vulnerability cannot be placed safely in the past nor overcome once and for all, then its passing cannot be ‘successfully’ mourned. Moreover, if there is no ‘primitive’ common culture that has been lost and subsequently mourned, but only a dominant discourse in tension with subjugated discourses of the vulnerable and the marginalized....

On Africa. Terra nullius.
Living and dying. Life and living calls for ritual.

Africa. It's another world. Not just the people and the cultures but the land, the colors you see at dawns and dusks -- and the life there. It charges every molecule of air … It's tangible -- the moment to moment of life and death, the co-habitation of man and beast, of beast and beast, who'll survive, who won't -- and there's no judgment about it. No right or wrong or imposed morality. It's just life. It's a voyeur’s paradise really because those animals don't want anybody in their business. You can watch but at a distance.
Robert Kincaid. Bridges of Madison County.

The Possession in Dispossession. On inherent lack and self-aggrandizement. The Ego/Id.

What is it, exactly, that's yours? We're not owners here. We're just passing through.

The Kikuyu on the plain. On the plain. On the plain. The Kikuyu and the Maasai. The Maasai and many other indigenous peoples the world over. The world over. Terra nullius.

Terra nullius. And this by anthropologists, missionaries then merchants. Ownership of things and peoples. God and country. It is the reason why indigenous peoples, you realize, do not need to be saved from themselves. Terra nullius. Indigenous peoples have totems and not possessions per se. They therefore have no personas. And this just might be the reason why they were seen by colonials as nonpersons. To indigenous peoples, there are no countries or nations but kingdoms, and sovereignty is ancestral, which is the reason natural resources cannot belong to any one person or people. Natural resources belong to the Spirit world, the world recently joined by the ancestors, the ancestors who rule their kingdoms. The living are but custodians. There is no entitlement. There is no ego.

We're not owners here. We're just passing through. We possess nothing around here. Therefore make no war. Make no nations. You can watch but from a distance. Do not touch. Do not dispossess.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The lack of and need for entitlement to resources is not but the manifestation of an inherent lack. The veritable syndrome of over-separation and over-individualization. But as we know too well, possessions make the man. Possessions make the man and branding is that which makes him narcissistic.

Diane Jonte Pace:
…. An inevitable experience of the loss of the archaic mother - while necessary for separation and individualization -- establishes a pattern in which any loss or fear of loss has the potential to trigger anxiety about gender and sexuality, gender and sexuality which are proxies, in a sense, for the maternal body. There’s thus almost an inevitability to misogyny, a kind of repetition compulsion.

On Sovereignty. Ownership and the Ego/Id.
The scramble. Provoking nationalism: Making profit and nations.
Example. 1919. The end of the Great War. The war fought to end all wars. Liberia, the new country. Her name is inspired by the Latin word for freedom. Settlement lands for captives once enslaved -- for them, their children and their children’s children. Liberia, youthful and hopeful Liberia, Americo-Liberians, full of promise, full of the faith that our dark past has taught us, full of the hope that the present has brought us.
The dispossessed dispossessing. Liberia was in the years after the Great War, under investigation by the League of Nations. Liberia in those years was accused of trading indigenous peoples of their part of Africa to Firestone and other chartered foreign concerns as migrant labor indentured under horrible, horrible conditions in Spanish Guinea. Fernando Po.

On Terra Nullius & the Dispossessed state.
The pain body of the body politic. The collective consciousness.

The body politic. By Emile Durkheim, peoples of a society have a consciousness, a consciousness collective engendered by their regular participation in common activities and social institutions from a body of common beliefs. It is this shared experience which would harness the sacred sense of belonging and feeling of moral obligation to the demands and values of the society.
Belonging. Moral obligation. Solidarity. Even citizenship. And the individual rights and obligations that come with citizenship. The requisitions of belonging to a nation, divesting individual sovereignty to form the whole. Also by Durkheim. Two kinds of societal solidarity. Organic. Mechanical. In societies classified as mechanical, there are often groups of peoples, groups classified by class, then race, then gender, forming competing groups, and thereby engendering tensions.

Here comes the pain, and the politic.
Provoking nationalism, then making profit and nations.
The collective consciousness. Identity formation. Resources, ownership, the ego. Competing groups. Competing for resources. Tensions. Then war, then more tension, then more warring. War, then loss, loss and mourning. Mourning, a good mourning, if you are lucky.

On Terra nullius. Message from the indigenous.
We're not owners here. We're just passing through. We possess nothing around here. Make no war. Make no nations. You can watch but from a distance. Do not trespass. Do not dispossess.

"My Kikuyu." "My Limoges." "My farm." It's a lot to own… What is it, exactly, that's yours? We're not owners here. We're just passing through.
Finch Hatton, Out of Africa, the film.

On Terra nullius. Anthropologists, psychologists, can you dig?
To the indigenous, who possess nothing but totems, to them there is the thing and the spirit of the thing. It is the reason why to them there is no concept of possession but spirit-possession. Inherent possession. Anthropologists, psychologists, can you dig?
The cycle of life. Indigenous peoples have no possessions. They are communal peoples whose purpose in life and with living is to be vessels, empty devoid of the ego so that the two-thirds of their singular dimension of reality, two-thirds of Life-force would access a place, a body, a territory, a turf. Spirit-possession.

We're not owners here. We're just passing through. We possess nothing around here. Therefore make no war. Make no nations. You can watch, but from a distance. Do not trespass. Do not dispossess.

Life force. Life and living are for the unborn and the dead. The cycle of life. It is the reason to the indigenous peoples. There are totems and rituals but no ownership. What does ownership mean? What is the purpose of what you own? And where? Where are you taking the titles and deeds? How do you own a thing? When you own something, does it relocate to a new address inside of you? Does it assume a reality outer-worldly? How then are you able to possess a thing? There is the thing, and the spirit of the thing. There is possession and spirit possession.

Another way of pinning down the concept of dispossessing? Possession is what comes before dispossession, for possession is the manifestation of the ego. It does not but engender war and warring. Never peace. With indigenous peoples, there are no egos. Anthropologist and psychologists, can you dig?

Book-learning and the Ego/Id. The dispossessed, dispossessing.

Of the Ngong Hills, Chief Kinanjui:

British can read -- what good has it done them?

British can read. Has book-learning saved them from themselves? What is it, exactly, that's yours? We're not owners here. We're just passing through. The dispossessed, dispossessing.

Farrah: This chief says children higher than this must not learn to read.

Baroness Blixen: Tell him all the children must go to school.

Farrah: No. This is a chief. You are not a chief.

Baronnes Blixen: - That's absurd.

Farrah: It's not good for tall people to know more than this chief. When these children are tall...then this chief can be dead.

Finch Hatton: So, the school?

Baroness Blixen: So, the school. The farm. That's what I am now.

Terra nullius. The Old Order Changeth.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
After missionaries, colonialism, and imperialism, peoples once indigenous -- suddenly nonindigenous.

The God Enterprise. Colonial imperialism. Missionaries. God and country. God and education. Identity reformation. Nonindigenous peoples, all over the world, amongst indigenous peoples, seeds of dissention, instigating wars, civil, ethnic, competition for resources and access to resources. Identity and possession. Branding and individual experience of ownership, possession, then dispossession.

The gods must indeed be crazy.

Wherever frontiers have been designed and sovereignty devised, there has been civil tensions, and social unrests.
Divide et Impera. Divine right of rule. Divine and mine.

Divide et Impera is the rule and the very dispossession. Let nonindigenous peoples into your circle, and suddenly bitten and bound. Dispossessed. The God Enterprise.

Indigenous natives into little Englishmen. Missions chartered, resourced, and designed to systematically process natives into little Englishmen.

What's this nonsense I hear about a school?

Baroness Blixen: I've taken on a young missionary. He's promised me to do the alphabet first and save God for later.

Wogs can't even count their goats.

What is it about book-learning and this God enterprise that so grossly corrupts? Is book-learning and the God Enterprise the means by which indigenous peoples are dispossessed of an innocence, that lack of, for lack of a better word, self-consciousness, preoccupation with self, that ego-less-ness, that terra nullius, that non-person-ness, that lack of self-centered-ness, navel gazery. Ego-try. Ego-trip-ery.

Terra nullius. God and country. To the indigenous, there is no God, there are no nations. Tricked into thinking Kingdoms, ancestral sovereign bodies can be processed, manufactured into nations or countries … To the indigenous nations are fictive things, concepts, ideas for the manipulation of sovereignty and allocation and reallocation of resources.

Out of Africa, the Gods Must be Crazy. They must be crazy. They must be crazy. Out of Africa, the Gods Must be Crazy. The dispossessed dispossessing.

Baroness Blixen: I have paid a price for everything I own.

Finch Hatton: What is it, exactly, that's yours? We're not owners here. We're just passing through.

The indigenous could have a point. Examine issues of frontier-making, frontier peoples, culture and tensions, despite borders and legally recognized demarcations on paper. To indigenous people, ridiculous, the idea of jurisdiction of territorial and international waters, transboundary waters. What on earth is that? Stuff of sovereignty. What kind of sovereignty could that be? Counterfeited. Contraband.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;
unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

Baroness Blixen: If you put a dam here to stop the water...then I can make a pond here. Do you know how...

Farrah: This water must go home to Mombassa.

Baroness Blixen: It can go home after we make a pond.

Farrah: Msabu, this water lives at Mombassa.

Baroness Blixen: See if you can shore it up.

Baroness Blixen: Let it go. This water lives in Mombassa anyway.

On the above and other similar points, Denys Finch Hatton, Out of Africa, the film:

Finch Hatton: You do stir things up, Baroness.

Baroness Blixen: Did you ask to learn when you were a child? How can stories possibly harm them?

Finch Hatton: They have their own stories. They're just not written down.

Baroness Blixen: And what stake do you have in keeping them ignorant?

Finch Hatton: They're not ignorant. I just don't think they should be turned into little Englishmen.

Dispossession. Little Englishmen is what is happened to indigenous peoples the world over.
The dispossessed dispossessing.

What all happened to you? The dispossessed, dispossessing. Y’all dispossessed? What all happened to you? You ain’t never known possession… Dispossession neither.

Indigenous people: Nonindigenous peoples came through here, and through us. Nonindigenous peoples?

Indigenous people: Peoples of Ur. Uropia. T’Urkia. We have been processed into little Englishmen. Profit and nation-making is what has befallen us. We stand dispossessed. Can’t you see? Self-mutilation.

Y’all mutilating yourselves? I’ll be…

Indigenous people: Dispossessed. Gross dispossession of self and other. Genocidal proportions. Watch… Noses and faces. We cut off our noses to spite our faces. Like this. Watch… To spite our faces. Our noses. Our noses and our faces. And this is our loss. Dispossessed. Our grand loss.

Indigenous one minute, dispossessed the next. Dispossessed by contact with other peoples. Peoples of Ur. Uropia. T’Urkia. Religion. God. The God Enterprise. The Id, the ego and the trip. Identity formation. Self-aggrandizement. Possessions. Ownership. Branding. Book-learning. Profit and nation-making. Provoking nationalism, then making profit and nations. Competing groups. Tensions. Then war, then more tension, then more warring. War, then loss, loss and mourning. The repetition compulsion. War and more warring.

There is no redemption. Good mourning if you can face loss of control, stand spirit-possession, the taking over of the ego-free zone, structured, designed or not.

Africa… It's a voyeur’s paradise really because those animals don't want anybody in their business. You can watch but at a distance.

Do you know from whence Genocide in Africa?
Case in point: Country lands of a thousand hills. Beautiful country of pleasant hills. A thousand hills.

The BaHutus and the BaTutsis. The Belgian colonials, by breaking the land and the identity of the indigenous peoples, devising divisive identities, seeding discontent and dissent…. Colonial imperialism. Missionaries. God and education. God and country. The god enterprise at the hip of which is profit and nation-making. The scramble for Africa and the dispossession of peoples the world over.

Wherever frontiers have been designed and sovereignty devised, there have been civil tensions and social unrests.
Divide et Impera. Divine right of rule. Divine and mine.

Divide et Impera is the rule and the very process of dispossession. Let nonindigenous peoples into your circle, and be bitten and bound. Dispossessed. The God Enterprise.
Indigenous natives into little Englishmen. The mission of processing natives into little Englishmen.

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

On Patriarchy.

Humanity: Nietzsche, call on God.

Nietzsche: Whither is God?

A certain man had two sons: Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. Wherever frontiers have been designed and sovereignty devised, there has been civil tensions, and social unrests. Divide et Impera is the rule and the very dispossession because it emphasizes possession ex-herent.

Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.

Terra nullius. To a land without a people for a people without a land, apply the age-old recipe.

By this method proceed thus: Fragment the Palestinian territory. Pull the plug on their basic resources. Design a classification system for the Palestinian identity and population, design and assign new identities, favor the one and not the other. The one and not the other.

Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.

The inheritance. The peculiar heritage.
Israel Grand Apartheid and colonialism in the Occupied Palestinian. Le Dossier Dugard.
Occupation? Colonialism? Apartheid? Which is which? All and each.
A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.

On Israel. The Scramble for the Mesopotamia. The dispossessed dispossessing.

Rabbi Lerner: On Israel flexing out her living space. Lebensraum, an account of a dispossession.
…. the vast majority of those who came were seeking refuge from the murderous ravages of Western anti-Semitism or from the oppressive discrimination that they experienced in Arab countries. The Ashkenazi Jews who shaped Israel in its early years were jumping from the burning buildings of Europe -- and when they landed on the backs of Palestinians, unintentionally causing a great deal of pain to the people who already lived there, they were so transfixed with their own (much greater and more acute) pain that they couldn't be bothered to notice that they were displacing and hurting others in the process of creating their own state.

True, all over the world. The world and over.
There is a thing about dispossession and the dispossessed. An in-built repetition compulsion, inherent in peoples dispossessed culturally or psychically. Dispossession. It is the inherent fear and avoidance of therapy, of the healing process, also the spiritual component of medicine, and so a compulsive self-infliction of the pain.

Rabbi Lerner. On Judaism.
Judaism has always had within it two competing strands, one that affirmed the possibility of healing the world and transcending its violence and cruelty, the other that saw "the Other" (be that the original inhabitants of the land, who were to be subject to genocidal extermination, or later Greeks, Romans, Christians, or now Arab) as inherently evil, beyond redemption, and hence deserving of cruelty and violence.

The dispossessed dispossessing. The inherent fear of a people once dispossessed, and the anticipation of the repletion compulsion. The dispossessed state is an inherent fear of spirit-possession, the taking over of the ego-free zone by means of a ritual structure, designed or not. The dispossessed state is not at ease but dis-eased in the face of loss of control. The dispossessed state does not but seed and give birth to the dragon, and soon, here and there, and every which way the dragon rears its head, and strikes at the breast and bowels of humanity.

Rabbi Lerner. On Settler Judaism. The supremacist ideas which create a religious ideology that can only appeal to those stuck in the sense that we are eternally vulnerable … the powerful misperception of reality held by most Jews and Israelis that their state was likely to be wiped out any moment if they did not exercise the most powerful vigilance. Drenched in the memories of the Holocaust and in the internalized vision of themselves as inevitably powerless, Jews were unable to recognize that they had become the most powerful state in the region and among the top 20 percent of powerful countries in the world -- and they used this sense of imminent potential doom to justify the continuation of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

The art of war. Why the dispossessed dispossess.
Why this inherent fear of the dispossessed of dispossession and so dispossessing.
A dragon, ever so often rearing its head, striking at the breast and bowels of humanity.

The dispossessed dispossessing so that the Palestinian peoples, now in exile, as though in a staged-play, they have to re-enact, re-member how it was like for AshkeNazi to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land, in a sense by play-acting as though a pseudo-healing by the ritual of re-member-ance and re-enacting, re-living, re-membering.

Dispossession. The pain body of the body politic. The collective consciousness.
There is a thing about dispossession and the dispossessed. An in-built repetition compulsion, inherent in peoples dispossessed culturally or psychically. Dispossession. It is the inherent fear and avoidance of therapy, of the healing process, of the spiritual component of the medicine, and so a compulsive self-infliction of the pain, each time as though it was happening for the first time, each occurrence an attempt to erase evidence or deny the existence of the primal pain. Each time, as though the first time, virginal to dispossession.

The dispossessed state does not but seed and give birth to a dragon, and soon, here and there, and every which where, the dragon rears its head.
So that now both Israel and Palestine are dispossessed, and the whole world lives in fear of what the dispossessed would do, when and where they would strike next. At themselves and others for that is what the dispossessed do, they dispossess self and others alike. And there is no method to the madness. If there is no method, could there be a cure?

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

Kol yisrael … Kol yisrael arevim zeh le zeh –
Divide et Impera. Divine right of rule. Divine and mine.

Dominance. On Global Dominance.
Noam Chomsky. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.
On America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Chomsky. Noam Chomsky…. It is misleading to call these Israeli policies. They are American-Israeli policies -- made possible by unremitting United States military, economic and diplomatic support of Israel. This has been true since 1971 when, with American support, Israel rejected a full peace offer from Egypt, preferring expansion to security…. The two-state proposal has the support of a majority of Americans today, and could be enacted immediately if Washington wanted to do so.

Marshall McLuhan.
America and the Global Village.
The Global Village but is the medium the message?

Thanks to McLuhan for alerting us. This here is the Global Village and the whole world is Americanized, Americanized and enchained to the Soul of America, corporate America. Corporate America and the American dream. And the question remains. To survive this tsunami and usurpation of personal cult and culture, how mainstream can you get? Not who is sold-out necessarily but mainstream. How mainstream can you cut it? How dispossessed and averse to spirit can you remain in this godforsaken world.

MayFlower McLuhan.
The Dark Mother become America the beautiful. Blond, blue and strutting her stuff. Like with Lucia Birnbaum’s Dark Mother, An Anthology Of Writing In Womanist/Feminist Spirituality, and also She is Everywhere, MayFlower McLuhan; She is everywhere. America the beautiful, she is everywhere. The Global Village but is the medium the message?

The way forward.
The chief mourners. Mourning becomes eclectic.

Marian Ronan. Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism.
Marian Ronan. On Mourning. The wider approach, a way of understanding human experience. Engaging or working through loss is so painful that human beings and groups undertake all kinds of defenses to avoid it. They become enraged, they become depressed; they get stuck and repeat the same actions over and over. The cost of this "inability to mourn" is very high.

Diane Jonte Pace.
Mourning Religion.
… Experiences of religious change and loss had let to periods of grief and introspection, which in turn had produced the creative and insightful theories that constitute the discipline of religious studies.
… The academic discipline of religious studies embodies a constructive way of mourning the changes we’ve experienced in religion and culture during the last century.

Marian Ronan: The cost of this "inability to mourn" is very high.

Diane Jonte Pace.
Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny and the Uncanny Mother in Freud’s Cultural Texts.
… An inevitable experience of the loss of the archaic mother -- while necessary for separation and individualization -- establishes a pattern in which any loss or fear of loss has the potential to trigger anxiety about gender and sexuality, gender and sexuality which are proxies, in a sense, for the maternal body. There’s thus almost an inevitability to misogyny, a kind of repetition compulsion.

The case study.

Lucia Birnbaum. the future has an ancient heart. transformational legacy of African migration paths to all continents. Cases of Italy, France, and Spain.

Celia Brickman: The Persistence of the Past.
If vulnerability cannot be placed safely in the past nor overcome once and for all, then its passing cannot be ‘successfully’ mourned. Moreover, if there is no ‘primitive’ common culture that has been lost and subsequently mourned, but only a dominant discourse in tension with subjugated discourses of the vulnerable and the marginalized….

Sojourner Truth: Dese women togedder ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em…

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

There is method to the madness.
How then do we uproot this disease of repetition compulsion, the dispossessed dispossessing, from the psyche collective?
A deep understanding. Only a deep understanding of our propensity to retreat to misogyny in times of crisis can help us transcend this pattern.

Marian Ronan. An interview: Equal wRites:
That ‘Tracing the Sign of the Cross’ will lead to productive discussions about the future of American Catholicism. The future of American Catholicism and particularly about how American Catholics would come to terms with their losses and as result be freed up to engage more with God's mission in the world, especially among the deprived brothers and sisters in the US and in the global South.

The God Enterprise. That American Catholics would come to terms with their losses…? WASP America is ‘bout to cut her losses? Cut her losses and run? Losses? How American Catholics would come to terms with their losses?

Humanity: What losses?

American Catholics: Dispossession.

Humanity: Of self? Of other? How come suddenly, y’all admitting dispossessed all of a sudden? What all happened to you?

American Catholics: We are dispossessed. Can’t you see? Sexuality and the gender agenda. Self-mutilation. Flagellation, also. Self-Flagellation. Can’t you see?

Humanity: Y’all segregated and mutilating yourselves? Segregated, mutilating and flagellating? I’ll be…

American Catholics: Watch … Noses and faces. We cut off our noses to spite our faces. Like this. Watch … To spite our faces. Our noses. Our noses and our faces. The God Enterprise is gone belly-up. And this is our loss. Our grand loss.

Humanity: Y’all, watch out! WASP America is ‘bout to cut her losses. Cut her losses and run.

The art of peace. The way forward.
Mourning & Loss of control, spirit-possession. The only way is through.

The only way forward is through. Through ritual. Mourning. Mourning becomes eclectic. Good mourning and Good Luck to you.

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

Nietzsche. On Patriarchy.

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes.
"Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers.
But how did we do this? … Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? … Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?

Humanity: Nietzsche, whither is God? Call on God.

Nietzsche: Whither is God? God is dead. Patriarchy is out. Matriarchy is in. And the mourning has become eclectic. Good Mourning to you. Good Mourning and Good Luck.

Humanity: Have you heard? God is dead.

Humanity: Who then is head of the House-hold of Humanity? … Quick, call a world-wide mourning. Patriarchy is dead. Matriarchy is in. Mourning becomes eclectic.

Dominance. On Global Dominance. America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
America, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful. America the beautiful. She is every where.

Humanity: Hey, McLuhan, have you heard? God is dead

McLuhan: The King is dead. Long live the King.

Humanity: You don’t get it do you? Patriarchy is out. Matriarchy is in. And the mourning has become eclectic.

McLuhan: Jeez … Well, Good Mourning and Good Luck.

Humanity: Hey, Mac, when y’all said ‘the medium is the message’, did y’all mean spirit-possession? Cause, men, this Global Village is truly godforsaken. God-fucking-forsaken, out here.

Are we there yet?
How do we Mapquest to the future?

And how? How then do we uproot this disease of repetition compulsion, the dispossessed dispossessing, from the psyche collective?
A deep understanding. Only a deep understanding of our propensity to retreat to misogyny in time of crisis can help us transcend this pattern. The art of peace. Strategy of spirit-possession. The taking over of the ego-free zone, structured, designed or not. At ease and not dis-eased in the face of loss of control.
The one ritual we are all held back by our fears and resist going through? Mourning.

Humanity: Whither is God? Call on God.

Nietzsche: Whither is God? God is dead. Patriarchy is out. Matriarchy is in. And the mourning has become eclectic. Good Mourning to you. Good Mourning and Good Luck.

Humanity: God is dead. Patriarchy is out. Matriarchy is in. And the mourning has become eclectic.

Nietzsche: Good Mourning to you. Good Mourning and Good Luck.

Humanity: Are we there yet?

Nietzsche: Mapquest to the future.

The Great White Hope. WASP America.
Mapquest to the future and her heart, her ancient heart.

Humanity: Hey, Chomsky?! Chomsky, change in global agenda. Please note.
Our Hegemony has become our very Survival: Allow America's Quest for Global Dominance. America to the rescue. America to the ritual of mourning. It falls on America to lead us through the ritual.

Chomsky: Why America?

Humanity: Because America is everywhere. She is everywhere. She is all peoples. She is the symbol of humanity, warts and all. And that is all the God we have and all the God and good we can hope for.

Chomsky: What in the…

Humanity: Have you not heard? God is dead. Patriarchy is out. Matriarchy is in. Mourning becomes eclectic. Good mourning to you. Good mourning and Good Luck.

Public address System: Round table. Round table. Get a round table. Warning. This is a mourning. Mourning. This is a mourning. Round table. Round table. America, invite our better angels to the round table.

Analytical Report: We have an inability to mourn.

Humanity: What shock… What awe… And why?

Analytical Report: An inbuilt mechanism. We are unable to mourn because we have deep-seated anxieties about sexuality and gender.

Humanity: What?

Analytical Report: The mother. The body of the mother.

Humanity: Who?

Analytical Report: Yo’ mama.

Humanity: Whatchu talkin’ ‘bout?

Analytical Report: Re-Member yo’ mama.

How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Until I went into thy sanctuary;
then I understood the destiny of all things.

Rabbi Lerner. On Life Force. The Force of Life.
"The Force that makes possible the breaking of the tendency of people to do to others the violence and cruelty that was done to them, the Force that makes possible the transcendence of "reality" as it is so that a new world can be shaped."

Re-Membered. The Archaic Mother: Let the dead bury the dead. The dead bury the dead. Quick. Rally the women. If there is no head of the household, if there is no soul to America, rally the women. Where are the women? The chief mourners?

Sojourner Truth: If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em…

…Bleeged to ye for hearin' on me, and now ole Sojourner han't got nothin' more to say … han't got nothin' more to say.

The rally. The call: Let us go dismantle the altar and the throne, the altar and the throne, while the dead are gone to the fields to bury the dead. Dismantle the altar and the throne.

The women. All the women: The altar. The throne. Down with the altar. Down with the throne.

Chorus.

The Global Village,

The women: Let us go dismantle the altar and the throne, the altar and the throne for we are pregnant with a higher history than all history hitherto. Pregnant and our waters is near broke. A higher history than all history hitherto. A higher history, that a new world be shaped.

Pregnant and our waters is near broke.

Down with the altar. Down with the throne.

A higher history than all history hitherto.

That a new world be shaped.

Our waters is near broke.