Satanism

I’m watching the Olympics, and the top Ice Dancers, a pair of Canadians, selected for their music “Sympathy for the Devil”, “Hotel California”–which has long been rumored to be about the Satanic Church, and which certainly seems to feature Anton Lavey on the balcony when you open the album, which I used to own–and, if I’m not mistaken, “Black Magic Woman”, from the album Abraxas (“ The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jungtranscribed a short Gnostic treatise in 1916, attributed to Basilides in Alexandria called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas the supreme power of being transcending both God and the Devil and unites all opposites into one Being“), by Santana.  Not hard to see a pattern there.  They wore black of course.

And I look at that, and it might well be their version of an inside joke.  Most Canadians are socialized to be atheists, like most Europeans.  Within such a world view, Satan is as irrelevant as God, with the difference that talking about Satan pisses people off who atheists see as enemies.

I will append to this an article I read about an overtly Satanic ice cream chain out of Canada: https://www.infowars.com/satanic-themed-ice-cream-shop-trashes-jesus-in-bizarre-marketing-scheme/

Again, might well be their version of an inside joke.   For everyone who laughs at Christians, why not make of sacrilege a political act indicating solidarity with the forces opposing, as they see it, reaction?

But as I have said over and over, there is something deeper in the appeal evil makes to people who lack a moral compass.  If you make a religion of being nice–if it is never acceptable to demand people respect non-negotiable, firm, unchanging boundaries–then the anger builds up.  It has nowhere to go.  The ego has no way of asserting itself, and thus firm individuation becomes impossible psychologically.  If you cannot be yourself, you have no home.  You belong nowhere, to no one.  And this is immensely frustrating, infuriating even.  This of course is why we see all this irrational and frankly stupid rage being directed at Trump.  But it is a very, very deep current of closely held emotion within people who are outwardly “progressive”, as they see it, nice, socially conscious, “good” people, like Justin Trudeau (who shows every sign of being Castro’s bastard son: look it up, the resemblance is textbook).  Rage can be redirected in many ways, and one of them is in structured, serious, long term destructiveness masquerading as niceness.