Cancel Culture

 

“I would like to welcome everybody to this extraordinary meeting of our city’s culture chamber. As you all may know, there are pressing reasons for having convened you here today. These reasons have everything to do with the war that is currently going on in Ukraine.”

“Putin Nazi! Putin Nazi!”

“Thank you for expressing your opinion. As you may be aware, all over the free world governing bodies are taking measures to show our rejection of Russia’s unfounded and unjustified actions against a peaceful neighbouring country.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“Your support is heart-warming. Since we felt our beautiful town could not stay behind, we convened all of you here today to determine what necessary cultural measures we are going to take. To give you an idea of what is possible, our local picture museum used to be the proud owner of two magnificent copies of works by Ilya Repin, the great 19^th century Russian painter of everyday hardship. I can hereby announce that in close collaboration with the copier, who is a locally known landscape painter in her own right, the museum has already taken these two works off the wall and sent them to the municipal waste management plant, where they will be incinerated.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“Then of course, there is the ballet. You all know how excited we were when we sealed the contract that put our humble municipal auditorium on the European tour of Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring performance for ballet and orchestra. As an aspiring provincial town we are not afraid to spend money and energy on culture and I recall vividly how our chamber played a pivotal role in securing the ballet’s engagement, for which the councillor has thanked me personally.”

“We have heard that story before, Emil, if you allow me, but it is as you say, in our heartfelt desire to show our support for Ukraine by deleting everything Russian we can impossibly allow anything by Stravinsky being performed.”

“Or sold.”

“Indeed, brother Nathaniel. I can assure you that music stores have begun sending all their Russian music back to its issuers, and in case this is not possible because we are talking about early gramophone editions, to have them destroyed.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“We need all the support we can get, thank you.”

“Let us not forget the invaluable effort our municipal libraries are making, Emil. All Russian literature, and this includes dissident literature from Soviet times, has been taken off the shelves and will be burnt this Saturday at a Special Book Burning Gala to which our town’s book shops have been invited as well. The Christian Marching Band will be performing inspiring Ukrainian folk songs.”

“Thank you, I was just going to announce this. Then there is another matter, that of the Russian imports. We understand Russian farming equipment has become quite popular among the agrarian community in our region thanks to its attractive price quality ratio. This of course must come to an immediate stop.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“Yes, thank you, it is understood.”

“But Emil, this is none of our business, is it? We are the culture chamber, I don’t think we should be deciding on matters of economy and employment.”

“You are aware, Emil, that we have quite a few members of the farming community in our midst. We can’t simply put them back financially. It’s not fair and it doesn’t make sense.

“And I think you should be aware that everything is connected. I would therefore like to express my gratitude, on behalf of this chamber, to those honourable citizens who understand their civic duty in these trying times and without being called upon come forward with denunciations of Russian paraphernalia hiding neighbours. I also wish to mention an initiative from the educational sector. A rendering of the Matthaeus Passion by Bach was planned on a local high school for Easter Saturday, but as two participating pupils have Russian sounding names, everybody thought it better to stop rehearsing and cancel the event.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“Yes, of course. What I want to say is, we cannot really congratulate ourselves on our following the science without first embracing the fact that almost everybody is feeling the same. We must always be conscious and expressive of the reality that we, as a nation, are on the right path, more than we perhaps have ever been. We are vaccinated, we support Ukraine, and we know Putin downed MH17.”

“Well, we don’t, actually.”

“We don’t what?”

“They don’t have much of a case, the Dutch, do they? It took them years to come up with an argumentation that asks an awful lot of the imagination to be convincing, while at the same time they never wanted to investigate the logical suspicion the Ukrainian air force was involved. The even gave Ukraine a veto on the committee’s findings!”

“Can we please go back to the main topic, Emil? As erudite as this discussion is, I believe we are out of our depth here.”

“You are absolutely correct. We need to talk about literature.”

“We’ve just covered that, haven’t we?”

“We have spoken about book burning. As essential as that is, we must also look at the influence many of these books have already had on their readers. Let’s be clear, here, a lot of well-read Europeans grew up on Dostoevsky as a mainstay in their foreign writers’ catalogue. And more than a few of those will have read him at tender and impressionable age. This, of course, must be considered extremely dangerous. We therefore ask our reading neighbours to step forward if they have had this experience, so they can be freed from the influence and better serve our Ukrainian friends.”

“Putin Nazi!”

“We are winning, my friend, we are winning.”

“What if you are influenced by Tolstoy? Will I equally need to be freed from having read War and Peace?”

“Yes, naturally. But you must wait, we’ll deal with Dostoevsky first.”

“So, what’s going to happen to those readers, then?”

“They will have to be reprogrammed, I guess.”

“And how are they going to do that?”

“Don’t you worry about that, young man. Their names are already known.”

“I nevertheless agree with our youthful member that we should be informed about the methods.”

“Look here, Emil, we have for two long years been swallowing an awful load of bullshit, a murderous load of misinterpretation, and now you want us to accept your Ukrainian solution in the same way? Do we really have to take this nonsense any longer?”

“Well, I don’t know what your thinking is based on, dear colleague, but your rant receives little support here, so I would like you to please be quiet or leave the room, thank you.”

“I do not wish to upset anyone, I just feel it’s time we were treated as grown-ups again.”

“Nobody ever treated you as a grown-up.”

“Now there, let’s not get personal.”

“Lady Beth!”

“Yes, it’s me. Still alive, and all that. I am of the opinion that if some of us haven’t been quite as brave and accepting of the situation as they could have been, then this is a common weakness which should be treated as such.”

“I am sure our pharmaceutical industry would find a miracle cure in no time if only we asked them.”

“Possibly, yes.”

“Make that likely. Look how few people have been dying from the vaccines so far. Just a couple of thousands. That’s almost nothing, from a percentage point of view.”

“So, it is settled, then? Those born in the twentieth century will have to show proof that reading Dostoevsky has not influenced them in any meaningful way, such to be judged by an interactive interrogation programme, in order to receive a derussianization imprint on their QR code.”

“I am sure it will not be as bad as it sounds.”

“For those who comply it won’t.”

 

 

Stop acting so crazy!

We are going through dangerous times for a specific reason. According to astrology, the age of Pisces, also called the Christ era, is coming to an end, and, if mental evolution has its way, humanity will enter the age of Aquarius. Some believe the new era began in 1968, others think we aren’t quite there yet. What is for sure though, is that society has been pretty convulsive over the last fifty years. Some people have personally prepared themselves for Aquarius and are already living in accordance with its principles, many still cling to Pisces, and a small but influential elite would like us to never make it onto the next stage.

 

Pisces was the era of a collective morality, led from above and duly followed by an unthinking and sometimes unfeeling mass of insignificant people who were deliberately kept in the dark about their true potential as humans. The Church of Rome was the highest power, sustained by a feudal system that kept Europe under control for well over a thousand years. Ever since the bubonic plague though, a civil society that allows people to determine the course of their lives themselves has slowly grown, reaching its heights in the decades post World War 2. The downside of this rise in awareness in western human has been the fact that it was facilitated by capitalism, a mindless free for all approach which inevitably led to environmental and cultural destruction around the globe, pushing many established societies back into more primitive circumstances characterised by fear and abuse. As a result, an awakening global citizenry sees its path to enlightenment blocked by karma. You cannot expect to be saved by good will alone. More is warranted. Nevertheless, accepting the need to step up and seek an aquarian mindset might bring good fortune. For sure in these trying times it may give peace of mind to adopt a non-defensive, transparent lifestyle.

 

Capitalism being our karma, there is yet a larger obstacle on our way to Aquarius. The elites of our global world are not exactly looking forward to our possible collective ascension. They’d rather keep us locked in our old stage, better even further back. They feel it would be more convenient to have the world to themselves rather than to share it with all of us. It is an old desire and they have been looking for ways to fulfil this dream for many decades. Now, already in the twenty-first century and with technological prowess peaking, the elites feel their time has come. Listen to their horrifying aloofness. Knowing that our pineal gland is the portal to higher awareness, the door through which we may know without knowing what other living creatures are experiencing and what free roaming spirits are trying to tell us, the rich and influential have done everything in their power to obstruct its proper functioning. First of all, attempts to inform the public about the gland’s significance were ridiculed. It’s just a little hormone producer so long as official science has not established any other uses – and hell it will. Secondly, and ostensibly to protect against caries, tap water was adulterated with fluor, a highly toxic substance that corrodes the gland and debilitates its functioning. It is telling that while many people managed to get rid of the yoke of collective morals, few succeeded in replacing it with a functional set of individually upheld principles. Freedom for most is lack of rules. Recently, the final attack on the pineal gland has been opened. If anything, the unnecessary and thus highly suspicious so-called vaccines will stop the gland from working at all. This is going to have disastrous consequences for you as a human, a soul carrying body experiencing life on this living planet. The inability to connect with higher realms will not only make entrance into Aquarius impossible, it will also rob us from our inspiration, both heavenly and artistic. Without the gland, your brain is nothing but a library of previous impressions. No new ideas will enter. This will make you susceptible to manipulation.

 

It is imperative to the survival of humanity as an intelligent, creative species to make an end to this ploy. If we fail, we will end up with an elite of physically clean and clear-minded fake aquarians, basking in wealth and self-importance, and a mass of zombified un-beings which at some point will likely be left to go quietly extinct. Why keep so many useless eaters alive when you can clone the best samples? We cannot have this. This was not supposed to be our destiny. It was certainly not who you thought you were when your consciousness awoke in that tiny toddler body of yours, a god in a temple under construction, waiting for its completion to be marvellous. Of course, before you could be ready you were sent to school, where that god complex of yours was successfully deconstructed and replaced with a sense of utter insignificance (“we’re all nobodies in an endless universe”), but still. If there is a modicum of spirituality left in you, stop taking the poison and clean up, is what I say. There is information out there on how to do it. But go off google first.

 

The figure of Christ is interesting in all this. He is the symbol of Pisces for many, yet he is not your typical pisces male. At two thousand years old and first aired at a time when the world was turning from Aries to Pisces, his teachings, which have seldom been followed through as they were too trying for most people’s everyday reality, have a distinct aquarian feel to them. You could say Christ wasn’t showing his followers the beginning of the road but rather the end. One didn’t have to be like Christ or live in eternal shame for failing to do so, one had to get there in the end. I guess Christ knew the stars were giving his believers a good two millennia to live up to expectations and he must have thought it sufficient. Well, here we are, in danger of not making it. Having let the fear of death take over our reasoning lately, we are duly waiting for instructions from higher up to put on a mask, take it off, put it on again, keep distance, come closer and hug, step away again, have a shot, have another one, forget everything that was said before, now remember it again, be offended by war, and repeat the whole cycle ad nauseam. Not exactly the behaviour of well-prepared proto-aquarians.

 

So, in honour of Christ, who never died for our sins but was simply murdered and who accepted his fate because he was not afraid (this was his gift, showing us that, while the run in may be painful, death itself is nothing to be scared of), let us try to become individually operating peace loving creatures, living without self-obsession in a sea of positive feelings for environment and the people around us. I believe this is what Aquarius means. From a collective morality which is inherently willing to sacrifice the individual for the common good, we must assume a personal morality which requires us to do the right thing regardless of peer pressure. We must clean up our gland and concentrate on our awareness and unspoken ways of communication. We must, to a certain extent, do away with words. Realise, that a belief in the pineal gland’s unproven powers by itself exerts influence. It is in fact quite easy to create a pleasant atmosphere among cry-babies. Try it once.

 

But first, stop complying. Get rid of the Aries mindset our elites are pushing us into, based on fear and bodily preservation. Remember it is not that long ago that we were doing way much better. In fact, many of us actively participated in those golden years. There really is no need to give up our potential just for some unsubstantiated fears. Understand that we have billions of years ahead of us if we want. The question remains: will it be their future or all of ours?