/lit/ - Literature

>>15807430
I read up on the Dirlewanger Brigade today and I have never felt so close to throwing up before by simply reading. Yet by far the worst part is that while my body found their acts repulsive, all my mind, my reason, could bring itself to say was "how stupid and inefficient" and uncontrollably I began to map out in my mind, my own command of the brigade and whats more I began to attempt to understand the evil that drove demons like Dirlewanger, a futile attempt I assured myself at first, but soon I began to understand the noxious mix of sexuality, violence and the killing pleasure that whipped these men ever onward to greater deeds of depravity. I found the same genius, in the classical sense, that animated Mishima and Caravaggio working it magic in far lesser men and to what horrid results.

what scares me the most is that I fear that not only I but million of my brothers in Adam, of this generation, are enamoured by the same blood soaked muse and that if the firm walls of societal discipline, already so undermined, break down further if would release a wave of Cain that will never be exorcised from America.

Montaigne & Hobbes said in the past that kings waged war for much of time for the culling of ardourious youth that these repressed energies, which could find no outlet in the society of women, would instead be channeled into deeds in outermer or ultramontain. Or that those who could find no future in the settled society of England and France may find it over there or returning home may come loaded down with loot and medals and find themselves with new esteem in the eyes of their country fellows. the Romans use to set up colonies in conquered countries to erase from the census tablets a small morsel of the vast horde of proletarians which crowed the city. In America we had the frontier serve this same purpose but now the frontier is closed, wars are small and unsuited for culling( and I suspect that the majority of youths who need to be culled would not pass military entrench examinations, I barley did) we dont establish overseas colonies and space travel and colonization might as well be impossible for all the good it does problem that is exceedingly current and growing exponentially by the millisecond. the sword of Damocles hangs over our heads with an ever weakening thread and I better get back to Boswell |I have spent too long out of the company of the good doctor Johnson.