JUDGE DREDD: HERO OF THE ANTI-CIVILIZATION

The sneer that they fear.

by Colin Liddell

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Every society and civilization has its heroes, either gods, humans, or a mixture of both. It has been the fate of America and the global Western civilization it leads to be represented in this respect first by cowboys and latterly by caped and masked crusaders.

THE ERASURE OF EQUALITY?

by Duns Scotus

We live in the Age of Equality, but few grasp its essence. It is the yearning – after eons of organization and evolution – of all life to return again to the amoeba and sludge stage, and for all atoms to shed their electrons and become simple hydrogen again, lost in the vastness of space. It is the thing that the great charlatan Sigmund Freud described as "The Death Wish."

It resonates in the most pervasive form of our contemporary culture: PORNOGRAPHY, which washes through the self-inflicted and therefore Faustian media of the internet as an orgy of equality: orifices and appendages – Black, White, Asian, "other," gay, and straight, male and female (and all the other genders rendered meaningless by the act)  – pressed together in one unholy communion; no borders or constraints: the cunt equated with the womb, the asshole with the oral orifice, the tongue with the penis, etc., etc., in infinitum, et ultra in a great unending Black Mass of inversion, perversion, and equality.

AN ANCIENT VISION OF THE KALI YUGA IN THE MAHABHARATA

by Ave Maria

The Indian tradition has handed down us the knowledge that we are living in the Kali Yuga, the most degenerate age where the world is on the verge of collapse. What will happen in the final stages of this Yuga? The Mahabharata, the ancient Indo-Aryan epic known as the largest book ever written, contains several well-known prophecies, for example, "shudras will expound the scriptures" and "people will without compunction destroy trees and gardens." These prophecies are widely available in essays and books about the Kali Yuga. Less well-known are the object-lessons given at the end of the Mahabharata's fifth book, just before the great war that transitioned the world from the previous Dvapara Yuga to the current Kali Yuga.

A teacher of mine, who has read the entire Mahabharata in Sanskrit, once remarked that parts of it seem to have been written with the modern reader in mind, notably the monologues of the low-caste character Karna. This may sound somewhat unlikely, given the age of the Mahabharata, but a close reading of the end of the fifth book shows a remarkable relevance to the modern condition that gives the ring of truth to my teacher's statement. Although it portrays conditions at the end of the Dvapara Yuga, I think it is meant to reflect on what conditions will be like at the end of the Kali Yuga.