Thomas_More
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The title Lord of the Flies is a very old name for Satan. I think that was Golding’s reference. Nothing to do with flies themselves.
Because environment and culture determine the nature of libido, we see many women attracted to the very sort of men who will abuse them.
Popular media promotes the tough guy and this influences female and male libido. Ruthless careerism is valued as “success” and military life lauded as heroic.Similarly, the haughty and indifferent, aloof, look is promoted for women by the fashion and “beauty” industry.
Culturally too, competitive sport is the most valued and admired of pastimes.
For most of human existence it wasn’t. It is us in response to conditions most of us do not understand: conditions humans have created, to be sure, but without consciousness. We are the products of a social evolution preceding our births, as well as contemporary with us, and of a multitude of reactions to it, operating within us and mostly blind and confused.
Christians worshipping “pagan” gods without knowing it. (And this is why the appreciation of language and the history of words is worth while).
GODEN = Variant of WODEN (ODIN) the King of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon Gods. It is Odin you pray to whenever you say God.
TEUTATES = DEUS/DIEU/DIOS, the principal Celtic deity from whom we get the words DEUTSCH, DUTCH, TEUTONIC and TEUTONS. It is TEUTATES you pray to when appealing to DEUS, DIEU or DIOS.
I think involuntary celibates before the internet were mostly silent, excepting writers of novels, poetry and short stories, and artists. The unread and the non-artistic would keep it to themselves out of macho shame.
The internet has given voice to the sex-obsessed, which includes the lonely and the frustrated, who are not well lettered, and whose frustrations are expressed often in a violent and futile manner, and who also blame women instead of a system (capitalism) which alienates us from each other and produces a life full of hatred, loneliness and squalor.
I never said we did as a party. I just meant when referring to a populace in conversation with most, who use the word citizen.
Pretty Boy Floyd
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Contact Publisher – Woody Guthrie Publications/BMG Chrysalis
https://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Pretty_Boy_Floyd.htmIf you’ll gather ’round me, children,
A story I will tell
‘Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.…
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won’t never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.© Copyright 1958 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
Talk of smashing any country means supporting the mass murder of fellow workers.
“He who celebrates victory rejoices in killing.” (Lao Tsu).
So those Trotskyists are no different from the Stalinists who support war in Ukraine.
Russia could get drawn in.
