Black swirls: Getting Goblins out of Goernment
Tom Wilson
E.J. Dionne
The Washington Post
If I was king, I would call Jeanne Marie Laskas, The Washington Post,
to me, sit her down and say "Thank you for coming. I was taking a long
weekend at Orleans, the Far Ranger, helping her to tune up Bob Lee
Swaggart and Bart the Man for the coming battle between Our Side and
the goblins who killed Cornelius the Just and Chloe the Wise during
the great uprising associated with the series of school yard shootings
leading up to Columbine, which occurred at the same time Chloe was in
labor with Anna, the Orphan Princess. Of course, these things all
happened in different territories inbetween.
"Anyway, Curtis Wilcox's boy, Ned, was back from the Sandbox and is
part of the team. Stephen King's projections of Ned's destiny didn't
figure in 011 and, as you know, everything changed after 911, just the
same way things after Steve Bartman caught that foul ball. On 011,
Ned had one of those moments like when Obi Won Knobe delivers his
"Trust the Force, Luke" coaching hint and he went down and enlisted in
the US Army and ended up with the Rangers in Tora Bora and a bunch of
other stuff inside the Sunni Triangle you don't hear much about from
Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Carlson. A man out among men (gender not
specific). Ned Wilcox was born about the same time the goblins almost
got him, Stephen King, because he strips the mechanisms which cloak
goblins from their victims.
"Goblins exist in a realm that describes a perpendicular parallel to
both your territory, the space-time continuim of your dead line and
editor, the various territories of Stephen King's sojourners and what
evangelical fascists like Lon Solomon, Pat Robertson and James Dobson
refer to as the spiritual realm. Revelation is a description of this
spiritual realm, although it is nothing like what these demagogues are
talking about, which is prophecy, as in, soothsaying, which is to say
The Occult and the Dark Side of the Force. The evangelicals are
trying to agitate their population as part of Karl Rove's campaign
strategy, as in "energizing the base" and they use this extremely
abstract and disturbing literature to push the emotional buttons
associated with sex, death and fear. They are trying to create a
lynch mob, in other words. Revelation is a description of what
happens in the spiritual realm between the time Jesus is betrayed by
Judas and the destruction of Jerusalem and Masada by the Romans
Revelation is ur-Cubist in aspect: it is portrait of the disaster
brought about by the denial of mercy for the satisfaction of vengence,
a sort of Guernica in 19 chapters. Barabbas is literally the
anti-Christ. Barabbas becomes the organizing principle of what had
been a loose community of brigands and malcontents into what becomes
the Zealots, who finally piss off the Romans sufficiently that the
legions draw a plow through the debris of the Temple and then corner
these ur-fascists in a mountain top, and then build a dirt ramp to
kill them like trapped rats. That's the story Yaweh, Queen of Battle,
dictates to John on Patmos and not this "Left-Behind" crap of the Born
Again Jesus Freaks of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP in the same way
Allah dictates the Koran to The Prophet. It's an Edgar Casey kind of
experience..
"Anyway the goblins. If you've seen the Passion of the Christ, you
see the kind of society in which Goblins thrive. It is a
chicken-and-egg conundrum: is the place evil because of the goblins or
does the evil of the place attract the evil. It doesn't matter.
Stephen King addresses the issue in all his work, but especially in
"Needful Things", which describes the nature of temptation and
momentum. How did Barabbas put the Zealots together? The same way
Jesus puts his A-team together. How does Jesus tempt each person?
How did Mohammed Atta recruit his team? How does William F. Buckley,
Jr, attract Tucker Carlson? Needful things.
"Goblins don't have anything to do with sex, per se. In fact, the
best way to secure a goblin-free zone is to suck them out of their
territory and into your space-time continuum by male ejaculate. It is
one of the reason to keep them around. Men, that is. Women can't
kill goblins quite so directly. Jesus gives women the tools they need
achieve a similar result, choice, and the 19 Amendment creates the
ultimate anti-goblin weapon, the universal, one-size-fits-all Master
Blaster, the vote. Every time you vote, it is like clapping for
Tinker Belle, except that the voter hooks him or herself to the hidden
mechanisms and inner workings of the Cosmos, itself. The more people
vote, the more goblin gook gets pumped out that day. I mean, DC used
to keep itself goblin free naturally back before James Watts replaced
the Beach Boys for the 4th of July on the Mall. It has nothing to do
with Wayne Newton, but since then, the unrelenting nature of
propaganda associated with Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy which
defines the communication strategy of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP
constantly generates goblins almost as fast as the Buckos and Buckle
Bunnies of the Water Brother-Sister ritual and the Great Getting Up In
The Morning Naked Coed Jerking Off For Jesus Jubilee can pump'em out.
And, of course, the reason why the evangelical fascists tend to
categorize masturbation as a sin is exactly because they depend upon a
goblin-rich environment to hold their audience together. This gets
real complicated, because the Spirit of God, as described in Genesis
1:2, is present at these meetings. The only sin is to deny the
spirit. But it isn't exactly the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of
God on the bit. Goblins can imitate the Spirit of God and cause all
sorts of mischief. Needful things.
"And, of course, the whole point of communication associated with
President Rush Limbaugh and ABC talk radio is to create the sort of
ideological fog which gets Al Gore blamed for losing the election
while Jeb Bush is stealing Florida which is the perfect enabling
culture for goblins. Goblins are a necessary byproduct of the sort of
social polarization the Southern Strategy creates. Goblins are the
cognitive glue which holds together the resulting cult of personality.
Think of JonesTown or the Branch Davidians. Or Nazi Germany. Or
Grover Norquist's project to name something for Ronald Reagan in every
county in America. Or, for that matter, the court society of either
Saul or David. A theocracy is a cult of personality with a
bureaucratic structure. Or Enron. I mean, if you look at Bushie at
the epicenter of what looks like a cobweb of interests and appetites
designed to direct all attention to the Queen Bee (homosexual
reproduction in organizations is totally maternal). Consider the
visual accompanying the moment "Mission Accomplished!" Everything
right-wingers do is designed to force "Big Brother" Bushie forward in
the public eye and to vanquish any competitive personality. The
Wizard of Oz, designed around Dutch. And when you look at the central
figure, you won't be frightened by the goblins running around in the
shadows.
"The point is that the polarization of the Southern Strategy is
spiritually toxic and it has been building up 30 years or so since
people like Chuck Colson and G. Gordon Liddy tried to hijack the Nixon
White House.like a carbon monoxide leak in a cheap kerosene space
heater. This is what Michael Moore is talking about in Fahrenheit
9/11. This is what the Karl Rove wing of the GOP doesn't seem to
understand: they are just fooling themselves if they still believe
that the rest of the world is still buying "It's morning again in
America", least of all the joes and jills in the sandbox. The
polarization affects everyone it touches and it creates exactly the
social confrontation we got going on, presently. It is exactly for
moments like this that the US Constitution was created: to neutralize
polarization and de-individuation and restore dynamic differentiation
and progressive interdependence.
"And I cannot overstate the toxic effects of this polarization: among
other things, it created the zeitgeist, as it were, that encouraged
the suicides of Kurt Cobain, Vince Foster, Lewis Puller, Mike Boorda,
Brit Hume's boy and the disorientation of Andrea Yates leading up to
and including the moment she drowned her children. You remember those
Green Berets who killed their wives when they got back from
Afghanistan? At the time, hate radio and the evangelicals were busy
trying to defend Enron and corporate fraud as a natural business
cycle. At the time of the Yates drowning, the evangelicals were all
cranked up over the Blood of Jesus. And it was the goblins what
gathered around Yates and shrieked and howled and she tried to stop
the sound and the rest is history.
"It's like that lullaby: The Bees and the Butterflys/Flutter around
her eyes/And the Little Baby/Criying "Momma".
"And the reason I bring this up is that the black swirls that Anna
was drawing are goblins gathering around your family. You are right
smack dab in the middle of Red America and the effects of the Southern
Strategy are like music from a Buick 8: it throbs, throbs, throbs
through the collective unconscious. And that is the battle Bob "The
Nailer" Swaggart and Bart the Man are tuning up to fight. The
Fascists are already turning up the volume and Anna is evidence.
"This is actually a healthy sign of her spiritual demeanor. She is
too young to be engaged in abstract expression: she is drawing
something concrete in her experience. She is unafraid, although it
frightened her teacher, probably because Anna was having a good time
swirling. In Salem, she might be accused of being possessed. The
point is, this is happening to you and your husband and Sasha (and
America, for that matter) but Anna is the only one with the moral
clarity to describe it. This is a very trusting and healthy
personality and she is incredibly transparent in the way maybe only
children can be. The difference between polarization and carbon
monoxide, as a metaphor, is that, once you are aware of this influence
in your life, it looses 50% of its power. And as the people around you
become similarly aware, the effects drop of towards zero as the
ripples spread out from you, as epicenter.
"The grand point I want to make to you for the moment is the degree
to which the Karl Rove wing of the GOP is willing to expose your
family needlessly to goblins in order to elect Bushie the first time.
And by voting for anybody but Bush AND the part of the GOP with a
voting record which registers 100% on Grover Norquist's Peter Meter
will eviscerate the Goblin Conference on Capitol Hill over night. And
this is what I want you to tell your friends and readers. On the
Bounce!"
But I'm not king.