Persiflage & Paroxysm

Our natural social state is as tribes. United by either blood or fucking. Similar to what we see in the so called animal kingdom, a kingdom we conveniently place ourselves outside of. The problem with nation States, at least as they evolved in Europe, is that they tried to subdue the tribal instinct through amalgamation and uniformity, as a result they ended up creating a single national tribe. If you look at education as a basic right, and it is, you find Europe has made the biggest strides in this area. But, this is not out of some benevolent government instinct to educate and elevate the masses, the real purpose of universal education is to allow government administrators to exert more effective control over the people. If citizens of a nation State do not read from the same history book, or hold as sacred different truths or different versions of the truth, then that State would be impossible to govern. If there is no one accepted common language through which to communicate ins...

To refer to the Christians of the Middle East as 'living stones' is poetically apt. First, it refers to the solidity of the community, but then again even stones erode over time. Second, the descriptor ties the community to the many holy structures that dot the Holy Lands which should ideally include Jordan , Syria and Lebanon , as well as Palestine , they are all holy, they all have stones and remnants of the earliest Christian communities. Third, stones are a symbol of resistance as it is with the stone that a Palestinian child throws at an Israeli tank, and we as a community are stones of resistance. Christian Palestinians led and founded resistance and liberation movements in the middle of the last century. They were arguably among the most feared and effective resistance movements. The message here is that we are solid, we are permanent and we aren't going anywhere. But we are being eroded, slowly but surely. The neo-Ottoman/US/NATO alliance is creating h...