PROLOGUE: Anton LaVey founded the
Church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966 and promoted a line of
Alistair Crowley’s as a tenet of his church — the church has been described as something like spiritual social Darwinism: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
In other words, whatever you want to do, if you want it, then it is right. The line suggests that there is no objective morality, no concrete ideals of right and wrong. This wasn’t a new idea,
Nietzsche wrote a few books about it in he 1800s, but Crowley took it to a new level. Rather than explore the dilemma men and women face when pulled between what they want to do and what society will accept, the Satanists were impatient, and concluded without a great deal of consideration that a world without rules means that the individual can create their own good and evil through the force of their will.
This idea is inherently undemocratic, since democracy requires the rights of all its citizens be protected, that is, in the case of the U.S., every one has to give up some freedoms to the government to ensure that the rights of the totality remain intact. Social contract, yadda yadda.
For Crowley’s fascist statement to be applied in real life, the person creating their own morality would have to be in a position of power. You must have people to impose your will on, and those weaker than you work best. As you exerted your will more and more, your good/evil system would have to transform from a social framework that you stand within, to a reality (for lack of a better word) where the social framework conforms to you, and you become its center. There can only be one center, big fella.
As I said before, Crowley wasn’t doing anything original, he didn’t come up with the idea. Like Nietzsche — who was a serious philosopher, unlike Crowley — Crowley was interpreting observations made about human nature. This peculiar fascist tendency has certainly made its mark on history. It took Crowley to connect it to Satan.
ENTER PRESIDENT: President Bush claims to know God, know His intentions. He has even said that
God told him to invade Iraq. I don’t know if he meant it, but he apparently said it, and what kind of sick louse would say something like that and not mean it? Other members of his administration have made remarks about creating your own reality. Then they actually did so, and convinced most Americans and lawmakers that Iraq was an impending threat that had to be conquered immediately.
HYPOTHESIS: If Bush believes that he knows God, and if members of the administration believe that their is no objective reality, then it can be said that as individuals, through actions in Iraq, in matters of torture and human rights and the mean by which they have maintained and enhanced their power, they have exerted their wills in accordance with one man’s personal interpretation of God’s fancy via a supernatural link, and the ideological predilections of high government officials who subscribe to a theory of relative reality (and intrinsically, morality) that awards them the power to invert right and wrong.
What they have wilt has become the whole of the law.
CONCLUSION: The
Bush Administration is filthy with Satanists.
