Do this.  Do one thing for me.  Turn your head over your left shoulder,
and spit. Spit upon the twentieth century, and by this act, show your
disdain for having ever lived during it.  Let its name hereafter be a
byword among you.

The twentieth century was a period of cultural dry rot.  

The twentieth century presided over the end of architecture as an art
form, at the hands of the corporate state, void of human values, who found
that any design other than the rectangular was inefficient, and any symbol
or ornament too costly.  Form was stripped to function.  The results will
not even make an attractive ruin.

The twentieth century presided over the destruction of serious music, by a
cabal who professed not to care if anyone listened.  Instead, they
composed "music" from which melody and harmony were purposely banished:
either by rote series or by random number generators, though the results
cannot be distinguished one from the other by any human ear.  

The twentieth century was the triumph of abstract painting and sculpture.  
It saw the triumph of free verse that eventually turned into something
less artful than even prose.  And it saw the rise of a school of
interpretation that claimed that all human arts were ultimately
meaningless, every human writing ultimately indecipherable; all are the
servants of mere political argument, which it poured over everything in a
vandal attempt to paint the world in off-colour shades of red.

The twentieth century was a period of political blight.  

The twentieth century was the age of Socialism, Fascism, and Capitalism,
all ideologies whose point, at the last analysis, is that you exist to
serve a master; the latter the most subtle and dangerous, in that it
pretends to extol freedom, when freedom in fact exists only for those who
own your time.  

The bloodiest wars the world has ever known were fought in the twentieth
century.  As many people were killed by weapons during the twentieth
century as were killed during the preceding seven.  This does not include
the victim of the twentieth century's pogroms and genocides, which were
utterly unprecedented during the prior history of the human race.  

But that, we are assured, is all in the past now.  We assure ourselves
that we live in the triumph of Equality and Democracy, values which all
people of good will are supposed to share.  We do not grasp that Equality
and Democracy are both a chimerical lie.

The actual results of Democracy in action only demonstrate that most
people are the same old eternal peasants they have ever been: believing in
the gods and the spirits of their ancestors, fearing witches and
strangers, waiting for the priest to tell them what to think and a man on
a white horse to tell them what to do.  Equality only makes their votes
count as much as yours.

Combined, their result in practice is to make absolutely certain that
their fears are written into the law of the land.  Together, they
guarantee that the rule of the priests, and those who can buy the image of
the man on the white horse, cannot be effectively challenged within the
system.  

People need somebody to hate.  If they can't find an obvious target they
will invent one.  We should learn at least that much from the history of
the twentieth century.  But because of this lesson, the triumph of
Democracy, the sacred doctrine of majority rule, only guarantees that
there are more pogroms and genocides to come.

We cannot know the future.  But let us now resolve, with every last
muscle, nerve, and neuron, that we shall do all within our power to make
the next century resemble the twentieth century as little as possible.

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