All of the previously named culprits – capitalists,
communists, patriarchs, narcissists, psychopaths or fascists, are
not the cause. They are the carriers of something much more destructive and
dangerous.
No you haven’t read about this before. You have never seen it,
or heard it, and you won’t. The Anthro-Hyena blends into any group it seeks to dominate
and control. It appears like any charismatic professional or business person. It
professes an interest in the greater good, single-mindedly through stealth and charm. The outcome however, to the shock of cohorts
and witnesses, is destruction and chaos which occurs long after the Anthro-Hyena
has left.
The MO of the Anthro-Hyena, revealed through
centuries of revolution, war, regime and
ideology change, is to manipulate humanity by playing on our fears and basic desires. It
works like a virus, entering the reptilian brain which then becomes inflamed and puts pressure on the limbic system. Human functions such as reason and
language suffocate, unable to work.
Civilizations where people have lived and prospered for
centuries endure intermittent episodes of madness and dysfunction where the
focus moves away from stewardship to destruction. This is known as war.
All resources are switched from food, health, community and
beauty, to the basic binary of win or lose, kill or be killed, live or die.
Civilization itself dissolves into competition, an obsession so ridiculous, mothers
enter their babies into beauty contests. Education is rendered down to a series
of tests. Infrastructure is neglected for the arms industry. Ruling nations are
not progressive, effective or kind, but
simply the ones with the biggest weapons.
While the Anthro-Hyena itself is not limited to the
reptilian brain it convinces humanity to discard all other sensibilities
learned over centuries, for the bottom line, the lowest common denominator. In
spite of the activism and intellect of a few, the Anthro-Hyena has won.
The over-arching narrative has fallen for the sensational
siren and shut down public discourse for the masses. Politicians have given up
on leadership to appeal to the lowest common denominator, for good reason – the
system will sabotage the campaign that is life-affirming, justice-oriented and reasonable.
Media is hostage to the noise, broadcasting propaganda
without analysis. Movies, television shows, rarely play out the cause and
evolution of the plot, simply going straight to the effects – explosions, crashing
vehicles and pools of blood. Pornography has trashed love and amputated the limbs of
the human body from its final orgasm.
The Anthro-Hyena has corrupted art, beauty, wisdom, love,
complexity, democracy and the future. We
are presented with corporate sponsored contempt for life in all its shades and
colours. We are the everlasting dementia, looking for the next human sacrifice
to be slaughtered for our brief exultation of having won. Replaying our
delusional triumph like the circus it is.
Meanwhile the world of human capacities, civil society,
literature, compassion and creativity is shrinking. Living communities are
replaced with ruins and the continual rain of
bombs for which there is no solution.
No matter how smart, determined, courageous and powerful we
may be, no matter how many hearts and minds are destroyed, life is made redundant.
No theology, technology or philosophy can stop the fire, the floods and
bullets. The intention is that there be no witness, no argument and no narrative. To put an end to birth.
Without birth there is no life, there is no light. Without light all that
remains is the singular winner. The one
who destroys any chance of its own death by being the last to survive, by having
the last word.
Who benefits from this nihilism? Nothing that breathes or
thinks or hopes. There is no benefit other than the ego detached from
everything except winning. This is the Anthro-Hyena. The thing that eats into
our tender brains as we struggle so hard to conquer the universe, never seeing we have no
time to live in it.
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