Brothers,
For this past Holiday Season a friend gave me a very disturbing movie.
It was the original The Wickerman, made in 1973.
It was billed as a Horror movie, with eroticism, and was probably so at that time.
Horror and eroticism are obviously much more advanced to our modern desensitization.
I say these things as I am compelled to mention how shocked I was due to the Overt Christian dialogue. It is a wonder as to how this Film was ever made.
I can suppose that my friend had no idea the significance of this film to me in my present conundrum as well as my work on fully understanding the Message of Elder George and the disease of Western thought. When I queried my friends thoughts on the movie he had nothing to comment, while I, after the shocking ending of the Film, delved into the TRUE nature of the Protagonist as well as the Natures of the Overtly Christian and Overtly Neo-Pagan cultures who are shown to be clashing in this story.
For my Brothers who are followers of the Bible and Christianity, there is much to ask oneself regarding the behavior of the Christian Protagonist of the Story, so I encourage you all to find this Film and consider the substance for yourselves.
In so far as the background elements of the Story as presented I laughed out loud to myself when I realized that the Neo-Pagan culture presented in the Film as the “Natural” and “indigenous” ways of the People was actually and admittedly introduced and constructed by …a Western Victorian Aristocrat.
So here in this film is a prime example of aristocracy, filled with its pride of accomplishment and science, modern reason, giving people a false construct to live in. Selling it as the Natural Way. Indoctrinating the youth, and finally coming apart because of the fact that the cornerstone idea of the neo-pagan culture is an un-natural horticultural product…genetically selected fruit.
Who selected this? The Aristocracy of course!
I saw in this film a great illustration of Elder’s point about aristocratic feminized Western thought.
I saw a great illustration of the feminized western thought of the Christianity lived by the protagonist, only when reading about the scenes of his life that were left on the cutting room floor.
Thus, in the tension of cultures in this film I saw the reigning question of Elder’s…and that being; is there a Natural Way of life that can be adopted by those of Western Thought? Because both cultures were ultimately polluted, and unsustainable.
I found this film compels me to see how much materialism is ingrained into faith of Western Christianity It also makes a compelling argument against blindly believing anything that is marketed as or claiming to be natural or of nature, for some things are found to be quite unnatural and destructive to nature when their actual foundations are examined.
I find it shocking to see that Elder’s Message indicting western aristocratic thought and control plays out in this Film.
I find it shocking that there is really the greater point of conclusion, that replacement of the Natural way of life with an unnatural one is unsustainable, even if you market it as ‘Natural’ or ‘Christian’, is madness.
As with all forms of healing, wrongness must be recognized and admitted before it can be repaired. For us this means that if we are so enamored in pride at our much ignored foundational documents and laws that are the pillars of Western Civilization, that we fail to see how dead they have been made by Western Civilization itself, then we cling to that which a false construct wearing an air of greatness, but having no substance, something that claims to be natural and of natural rights, but actually having nothing but war against such rights.
If we are incapable of recognizing wrongness, the madness of today is perpetuated.
Thurston Paul Bell
