Canto
XV
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XV
Petrus Romanus
The Original Bail-out
The original bail-out was when they took our ancestors and...
Slaved them to the cotton bails
Made them say their Christian names
Yoked them with mercantile chains
Took their husband's wives away
Smote their souls with Hamites' blame
Mocked them on a Minstrel's stage
Strung them up on branches slain
Taught them that to die was gain
Worked them for subsistence pay
Crushed them with eugenic claims
Forced them onto crack cocaine
Rewrote laws to fill their jails
With African-American males
Evidence weighed on economic scales
On a chain gang striking nails
All along the Tennessee rails
All aboard the devil's trains
Killing all who dared complain
Just to hear their descendants say
'What's this got to do with us today?'
AMERI.K.K.K.A'S 1ST BAIL-OUT PLAN
"You better 'bail out' that cotton, boy!"
Clearly, we have lost our way...
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood ain't nothin' but a college-educated, lab-coat-wearing, straight-up pusher. He moonlights as a mental health professional, but once he's got you stretched out on that plush leather couch, my man will offer you pills for your mental ills (but it's gonna' cost ya' a lot o'bills). Now pimp this...
There are two 20th century ideologies that took their cue from pagan mysticism and esoteric philosophy: Nazism and Psychoanalysis. But what else do these two ideologies have in common? -- and remember, don't talk to me, talk to the puppet!
Psychoanalysis has nothing to do with mental health, it is (from its inception) a therapeutic technique. But of course, we wouldn't base civic laws and theological principles on a "technique," would we? That would be crazy!
And what is crazy? In the Book of Acts, Peter and the apostles were branded crazy for speaking in tongues (Acts 2:15; 1 Cor 14:23); David was dancing naked in the temple (2 Sam 6:20) and foaming at the mouth in the Philistine court (1 Sam 21:13). Were they crazy? Am I crazy because the Spirit of God moves my body and inspires me to speak in tongues? Was Nostradamus crazy when he penned the following?:
Le penultiesme du surnom du prophete
Prendra Diane pour son jour et repos:
Loing vaguer par frenetique teste
Et deliverant un grand people d'impos.
(Nostradamus, II.28)
The penultimate letter of the prophet's surname
Will take Diane for its day of rest:
He will wander far in his madness,
Delivering a great nation from subjection.
(English translation)
If the majority of the people in this world are at some level insane, then wouldn't it stand to reason that the people who this world brands as crazy are actually the sane ones? And yet we see our mental health facilities filled with priests and prophets, visionaries and demoniacs in need of exorcism. We don't need Dr. Feelgood, we need Dr. Realgood! But to all my brutha's getting stuck with needles and electrically shocked for preaching the gospel, keep tight and know that the day is coming -- and already is! -- when we're all gonna' fly this cuckoo's nest (and when they ask why you stopped taking your meds, tell 'em to ask the goddamn pill!):
Why is it that when we talk to God, we're said to be praying; but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
(Lily Tomlin)
Science is a method; Psychoanalysis is a technique. We cannot base our laws on a method or a technique. If our laws are based on methods and techniques, then they shall be at their whim. That would be fine except for one thing -- we are at the whim of the law! If the law is at the whim of Psychology (and we are at the whim of the law), then we are at the whim of Psychology. But the law says that it is illegal to conduct psychological experimentation on human subjects without their consent. Therefore, it is illegal to base our laws on Science or Psychology unless we sign a consent form. That would be democracy! But the rule of the majority can oppress the minority, which is why we need the courts to intervene. That would be a courtocracy!
Now let's do a little word association. I'll say a word and you tell me the first thought that comes to your mind:
EqualityRelativitySelf-evident truthsConsenting adultsGive me liberty!Give me death!
If the patriots walked into today's High Court, they would be hauled away in plastic handcuffs for daring to believe in eternal, unchanging and self-evident values and moral imperatives! They would be mocked in our media and derided in our Universities! -- and aren't they already! We have replaced self-evident truths with pseudo-scientific theories; ideology with methodology! The center cannot hold! Our forefathers' blood cries out from the ground -- how long will this courtocratic tyranny subvert the will of the people and the Spirit of Liberty who gave it?
Where is the God of New England? -- the Spirit of '76? The Sons of Liberty staring down impending British warships? And what do we see on our horizon? A ghastly culture of death ruled by a judicial tyranny, having once cast off the British yoke only to exchange His Majesty for His Magistrate!:
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But what of minority rights? How can we guarantee that minorities won't be oppressed by the tyranny of the majority? By basing our laws on inalienable rights that cannot be impeached by any future government! That would require and infallible constitution, but the U.S. Constitution is not, nor does it say it is, an infallible document. On the contrary, it is a living document subject to amendment, revision and interpretation. Hence, the dirty job of safeguarding the rights of minorities falls upon the courts! That would be a courtocracy!
And what has the Court gotten us!? What EVER has the Court given us!?:
But if we replace the Bill of Rights with the Ten Commandments of Moses, we would have the tyranny of the Law! So let's add the gospel, what then? Wouldn't we still need an interpreter? Some 'liberal' theologians say that Paul was gay because he was unmarried -- not to mention thigh-swearing, male-kissing, nude-fishing, bed-sharing and a whole host of other first century scenes that the morally bereft can willfully misconstrue. When David tells Jonathon, "thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women" (2 Sam 1:26), we understand the difference between altruistic love and sexual desire, but this is not evident to the people who watch Will and Grace but have neither!
This dilemma is further exasperated the fact that, next to Christ, all people were at one time faithless -- which is why we need laws in the first place, remember? And because the letter of the law can be misinterpreted (intentionally or otherwise), the Supreme Interpreter of that infallible constitution must himself be infallible (a vicarious criste!) That would be a papacy! (And whatever you may think of Roman Catholicism, it is after all the longest continuously-running institution in human history!)
So now we stand at a crossroads! Are we going to accept Reality or Relativity?: Universal Truth, or Private Interpretation? The Glory of God LORD Shekhinah will not be overruled by this despotic Supreme Court!:
But I've got a better idea! Let's base our laws on science and psychology! Now, we's in the Park Avenue office suite of my main man Dr. Feelgood! -- and if it FEEL good, it BE good, you dig?
Dr. Feelgood gots to have a clock mounted behind yo' chair so he can check the time without you seeing. Hey man, it's just a jobby-job!
Dr. Feelgood gots his medical degree certificate mounted on his wall. Oooh -- he's so smart! I'll bet he can tell me about my Oedipal rage, anal fixation, collective conscience, repression and denial, he's got me all figured out!
Dr. Feelgood thinks that one-in-ten people are gay. Hey, be honest -- aren't we all a little gay? It's a sliding scale -- a spectrum!
Or better yet, while the good doctor practices the smile they taught him in grad school (with the teeth they bought him in grade school!), let's have a 'look-see' at what psychiatry really is!:
Once upon a time (the Victorian era to be exact), homosexuality was diagnosed as narcissism (so-named for the Greek God Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection). However, Sigmund Freud (also known as 'Sickman's Fraud'!) overthrew the Victorian model of psychology as a true investigation of the human mind and replaced it with the pseudoscientific discipline of psychoanalysis which, from its inception was never designed, promoted or intended to be any kind of cosmological understanding of human consciousness, but was instead marketed solely as a therapeutic technique premised on returning the individual to a semblance of social function. It was, after all, a treatment; not a cure (and part and parcel of that "treatment" was the conscious abuse of mental patients through the APA approved methods of deception, mind-bending hypnosis, the use of placebos, threats, involuntary detention, electric shock, psychosurgery, harmful medications -- not to mention the unapproved techniques that the APA turns a blind eye to!) Meanwhile, the most impressionable of our society are being victimized bimonthly (except on holidays) by sheisty shrinks that would employ every manipulative technique of suggestion in order to light fires of the heart only to put them out and call it progress! In my DSM book, that would called 'pyromania'!
Psychology (which is heavily influenced by psychoanalytic technique) is a mandatory core subject taught at all colleges and universities in the United States. Everyone (me included!) who has any kind of liberal arts degree in any field is acquainted with its core tenets and what's more, anyone who has a K-12 teaching degree must also have a passing grade in Psychology or they don't graduate. Many school districts require additional accreditation and training in Psychology -- never mind the fact that psychology is not a true science nor claims to be. Nope, we're just gonna' send legions of schoolteachers into overcrowded classrooms with oral-fixations on their penis-envy.
Now, I used to teach elementary school and it's real freaking simple -- if the kid tries to put a square peg in a round hole, keep 'em back a year! But now we're giving marriage certificates and adoption rights to people who wouldn't even make it out of goddamn kindergarten!
But the entire Universe is heterosexual from plankton to people! When did we stop helping these people return to the natural state? Perhaps it was when psychiatry decided to treat the symptom instead of the cause! And are the symptoms? The extreme sadness and profound anxiety of having lived in a Universe that frustrates them and a culture that rejects them? We could, of course, empower them to change their rebellious thought patterns through intense psychotherapy. That would be treating the cause. But instead, we try to change the culture so that homosexuality becomes socially acceptable. That would be treating the symptom! Treating the symptom doesn't work because even if the culture permits homosexuality, the very fabric of the Universe continually rejects it, from protozoa to people!
So let's go on a gay scavenger hunt for every 'gay' monkey and egg-incubating male penguin in order to recreate a gay Universe! But while we may observe two male monkeys playing with (and perhaps grooming) each other, we have yet to see a male monkey climax sexually in the ass of another monkey -- I guess they're too evolved! You can call Pastor Rick Warren a homophobe if you like, but he's got a chimp for a publicist! You can stare down the Holy Father (and every other major belief system!), but you can't stare down the fish in the sea -- they've got no eyelids! Neither can you play a game of chicken with an actual chicken! The fabric of the Universe protests vehemently against homosexuality no matter how much society condones it! Not even the LORD God herself is capable of undoing the things which are absolutely necessary to facilitate life! But if you rebel against Lord of the Flies, then it is nature (and not God) who is the dispenser of natural recompense!:
(2 Pet 2:11-12) Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Remarkably, the Torah seems to agree on a variety of levels with both nature and society (which is why I subscribe to it), but even in the absence of any book, creed or dogma, we have it by the sheer authority of natural revelation that homosexuality is contrary to life, joy, health and well-being. It is a form of suffering and telling people that they are right to engage in it does them no service. Sometimes, 'love' means telling people 'No!'
But I've got a better idea! Instead of inspiring people to break free from the motions of sin, why don't we tell them that brain chemistry is dictating their thoughts! That is what the homo-fascists want us to believe -- and herein lies the problem: You can't have 'gay liberation' premised on a denial of free will? What if my brain chemistry tells me to bust your nuts? Where's my parade? If chemicals control people, then Christians are under the God chemical, in which case we will have chemical warfare in a universe devoid of free will... I wonder who will prevail in that contest? But if you are indeed under the tyrannical control of your physiology, then why would you want gay marriage at all? Does not the same cosciousness which cries out for social justice transcend the very flesh that you blame for your sexual proclivities?
Marriage is not a human right; it is a human choice and is so by definition! You can sing "blame it on the brain" all you want, but you would have to lip-sync it because you're not your brain, are you? You are a spirit; you have a soul! You transcend your brain chemistry! You transcend death and hell!
Or... you could just get a little crazy with my number one 'sexy ho' with the Lexapro, sista' psychiatry. Depressed? She's got the dope to make you hope! -- and even though she may have graduated from Wassamatta U (magna 'cum loudly'), let's not forget about her sweet sexy sibling psychology who looks just like her 'cept she's got a Ph.D (also known as a Pretty Hard Dick -- opps!) Now try not to forget about them hormone treatments, She-Ra: Princess of Power! Or better yet, why don't you git' comf'terble on my li'l plush couch? 'Cuz it's time for anotha' jive-talkin' session with -- you got it! -- Dr. Feelgood!: Remember me??? I'm the man of tha hour -- two if you can afford it! -- and a brutha' like no utha' who's a bad mutha- [shut-yo'-mouth!!]:
Dr. Feelgood has no absolute definition for what exactly constitutes mental illness. It's all good! Hey, everybody's a little crazy -- right?
Dr. Feelgood is concerned with getting your butt back to work, not with healing your mind. I'm okay -- you're okay! Time's up, see you next week!
Dr. Feelgood doesn't want to hear your problems. Instead, he runs down a checklist of neuroses in order to figure out which drug to prescribe. If you go off-script, he will use mind games to get you back on it. Hey, I'm your best friend! But I can't help you if you don't answer these questions! Don't you wanna' get better? You're gonna' have to trust someone sometime!
Dr. Feelgood receives kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies when they prescribe that company's medication. What's more, these same companies use cunning marketing and televised ad campaigns in order to convince people that they are crazy just so they can cure them. Feeling not-yourself lately? Life's got you down? Can't seem to find your stride? Didn't know you had one? Maybe I can do it for ya' -- and my little pink pills! (psst! Pfizer! Hey -- thanks for the kickback, brutha'! -- and thanks for not marketing any drugs to cure hypochondria and Munchausen's syndrome!)
Dr. Feelgood gets 'em young! School psychologists identify problem kids (usually minorities!) and slate them for Shitalin™ instead of dealing with the underlying causes of the child's misbehavior. Git yo' brat kid out' my class and don't let 'em back in 'til they's all mellowed out, sucka'!
Dr. Feelgood prescribes head-meds that have powerful side-effects like: weight-gain, sexual dysfunction, loss of appetite, blurred vision -- hey, I'm not legally obligated to tell you that you may become addicted! Thoughts of suicide? Opps!
Dr. Feelgood believes that all insanity is traced back to the terror of death. But instead of repenting to the God of life, he's going to try to get you to accept your death as a passage to ultimate self-fulfillment. But this 'death-acceptance' is as fallacious as it is feckless; and those who attempt it will inevitably be crushed by the weight of its absurdity:
(Is 28:18-20) And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
So do you still want to talk to the good doctor? 'Cause if you do, then Dr. Feelgood's got the prescription for your conniption already filled, sugar-pill! But as for me and my house, I shall exit the ward I can't afford and worship the LORD -- Amen? So the next time Dr. Feelgood comes 'round trying to pilfer you with a pill for you, tell him that you just had a breakthrough (and if he asks what happened, tell him it's yo' mutha's fault, sucka'!
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
