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Of refusal and defiance, defiance is the weaker. It assumes contradiction to a force that actually is a mirror of one's truth. Therefore, one runs onto the battlefield blind, not altogether sure what he is dying for, but at least he die rather than to exist needlessly.
Refusal is the acceptance that actually like wars with like instead of opposites: which corresponds with my own experience. Defiance denies the reality of aloneness and responsibility and can be called an immature form of refusal. 

So it is becoming even more apparent that the structures and institutions of leaders directing the masses inverts with the leaders following the dictates of the people, especially where personal freedoms and dignity is concerned.  That it is a habit of being human of attempting to find permanence in a natural system where everything is temporary and only exists in a series of states of being.
Even more, the distinctions of religion and personal belief systems no longer serves the needs of a State or the world's imperialists to define and control one people from another in order to perpetuate the programs of nationality and the consumption of wealth by means of warfare to keep the many impoverished.  It appears more clearly that there is no middle ground in the struggle for survival; that either an organism or species or people either is growing in life or in decay.
Especially when the various crises of basic needs such as food, water and health are being further threatened while [...]

I am the Machine.  You shall assimilate.  I build the machines that burn the fuel that build the machines.  I determine what you do and who you are.  If you question me I will accuse you of treason, an infidel, an enemy: and I shall destroy you.  You shall consume.  You shall obey.  You shall sprawl, buy and multiply.  I am your truth.  I am your future.  I poison your air and water.  I possess your body.  I am the Machine.  I destroy your nature.  I eradicate species.  I am wrapped in cellophane, on the covers of magazines and programmed on your televisions.  You shall only serve me.  Resistance is futile.  When you pray, you shall pray only unto me; when you sing, you shall sing only unto me.  When you suffer, you shall suffer only for me...
I am the Machine.

Whether it be in a club, with colorful lights and "gothic music", or at a concert with your god on stage amidst other faithful followers- all is religion. Bow, worship, pray and don't forget to give your offering. Eventually to be crucified one way or another. Don't f*** with our sacred religion, our tribe, our identity- do not put under question its relevance or meaning. Every musician who now gets up onstage in some way symbolizes a messiah; those who realize this conundrum might attempt to disguise this by feigning indifference or even hatred of this archetype, but it is built-in.
These archetypes: The Devil, God, Jesus and Satan exist as parts of a whole; an artist becomes aware of the tragedy and comedy of it all, that these faces are parts of a grand performance in order for mankind to become aware of himself.
The frustration becomes unbearable, the irony- a bitter undercurrent; especially when archetypes have long outlived their usefulness and once again art takes ownership of itself, [...]