Answers Offered To the Question "What Is Love?" As Asked By Haddaway

Love is not a victory march / It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.
- Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

Love is the law.
- Aleister Crowley

Love is always over in the morning.
- Andrew Eldritch, "Temple of Love"

Love is the eyes of god, hate is his asshole.
- Perry Farrell

Love is the shit that makes life bloom and you never know when you might step in it!
- Michael Franti

Love is a bomb that destroys all evil.
- Gerontissa Gabrielia

Love ... is the exact reverse of desire, for love is all activity. Instead of the object coming to me, it is I who go to the object and become part of it.
- José Ortega y Gasset

Oh baby, don't hurt me
- Haddaway, "What Is Love?"

Love is the gun that I fire inside of you.
- Mary Beats Jane, "Day In, Day Out"

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
- Novalis

Love is one of the answers humankind invented to stare death in the face: time ceases to be a measure, and we can briefly know paradise.
- Octavio Paz

Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter.
- Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

Love is the proof and the very substance of his [God's] reality.
- Simone Weil

Conform To "Diversity Our Strength" Or Die!

Eduard Limonov, not one of Barbara Walters' 10 most fascinating people of 2010, rants about the West in the following terms:

"Europeans are so timid they remind me of sick and elderly people," he begins. "And Europe is like one big old people's home. There is so much political correctness and conformity there that you can't open your mouth. It's worse than prison. That's why there is no culture in the west anymore. Just dying screams.

"In Russia, fortunately, the people still have some barbarian spirit. But Europeans and Americans are just dying, sick invalids."

A recent example of the conformist mindset Limonov describes recently emerged in my native Canada. As the National Post reports:

City councillor Mike Layton (Trinity-Spadina) enters his first full city council meeting Thursday with a motion asking council to censure Maclean’s magazine for “negative stereotyping of the Asian-Canadian Community.”

And members of an Asian Canadian group gathered at City Hall Wednesday to put their support behind the rookie politician.

Mr. Layton, the son of Jack Layton, the federal NDP leader, represents Toronto’s Chinatown, and his stepmother, MP Olivia Chow, comes from China. He told reporters and members of the Chinese Canadian National Council at City Hall Wednesday that the Nov. 10 article in Maclean’s, “Too Asian?” is “offensive to my neighbours. It is offensive to me personally.” . . .

He said his motion, “Reaffirms our commitment to the city’s motto, ‘Diversity Our Strength.’ We are living in the cradle of global diversity.”

Censuring public mention of facts uncomfortable to your worldview (i.e. that cultural differences have consequences beyond culinary diversity) does not eliminate those facts, or prevent private conversation of those facts. Intimidating mainstream publications into not discussing controversial issues only pushes those issues into the ideological quiver of extremists (see rise of the anti-immigrant far-right in Europe). It also leads to the banalization of public discourse, so that the "10 Most Fascinating People" includes the hopelessly inane cast of the Jersey Shore and all politicians must be lawyers both professionally and spiritually - i.e. dead inside.

"Diversity Our Strength" only makes sense as a slogan if the diverse parties bring unique strengths to the table. If Asians are indistinguishable from whites, why is diversity a strength? Can't "Diversity Our Strength" accommodate the unspoken assumption held by nearly everyone that Asians are better (or work harder) at math and science than their non-Asian peers? If "Diversity Our Strength" means I don't have to specialize in math, I support it. If "Diversity Our Strength" means I can't talk about what is in front of my nose, I agree with Limonov - there is no culture in the west anymore, just dying screams of "I'm offended!"

Carol Of The Day

Tis the "holiday season." Kwanza, Chanukah, Christmas, Eid Mubarak, Hindu Elephant God Celebration, you name it. Yet amid all the public displays of ecumenical cheer, I see little representation of that holiest of days, Crowleymass.

What is Crowleymass, you may ask? See below.

Current 93 - Crowleymass Unveiled

Okay boys and girls, let's go!
Alright

Another wretched morning
A wretched October day
No sound of angels in the trees
Christmas is far away
Yeah, listen, what's this?
The televoice starts whipping round
The vision comes today
And this is what the voice declaims
It's To Megatherion's birthday!

Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
I said
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
One more time
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!

Well you can take your three wise kings, your manger sheep, and hey!
And I'm gonna tell you why, too
Cause the thelema-boys are taking over with the tidings of the beast's birthday

Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
I said
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
One more time
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!

Crowleymass, crowleymass
See the little children at crowleymass
Their faces full of awe

And they don't get no shitty dolls and trains and stuff like that
No, they just get the book of the law

Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
I said
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!

Well you can take your reincarnation, transsubstantiation and your papal kiss
Cause I'm with a beast in beastly bliss
And all I want is copulation!
Oh darling!
And there ain't no grace, there ain't no guilt
Cause this is the law, do what thou wilt
The name is crowley, it rhymes with holy
It isn't crowley, that rhymes with fouly, eeewww

Well you can take your reincarnation, transubstantiation and your papal kiss
Cause I'm with a beast in beastly bliss
And all I want is good old-fashioned copulation!

[occult chanting]

Shallow Fascination

Here's Barbara Walters’ list of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010:

1. General David Petraeus
2. Betty White
3. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Justin Bieber
5. Cast of “Jersey Shore”
6. Sandra Bullock
7. Jennifer Lopez
8. LeBron James
9. Kate Middleton
10. Sarah Palin

Here's my list of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 1848:

1. Giuseppe Garibaldi
2. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
3. Mikhail Bakunin
4. Giuseppe Mazzini
5. Adam Mickiewicz
6. Victor Hugo
7. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
8. Klemens von Metternich
9. Lajos Kossuth
10. Karl Marx

To paraphrase General Patton, "God I hate the 21st century." Also: what does the contrast between Mazzini and Garibaldi vs. Snooki and The Situation tell us about the decline of the Italian race?

Wikileaks Crocodile Tears

Oh, the injustice! Governments say one thing in public and another in private! Julian Assange expects the United States government to conduct itself as the Kingdom of God. Jesus wisely said, the Kingdom of God is within. Carl Schmitt observes, "Never in the thousand-year struggle between Christians and Moslems did it occur to a Christian to surrender rather than defend Europe out of love toward the Saracens or Turks." Love can only thrive in borders defended by violence.

Steal Russia's secrets and Putin's gonna make you look like the Joker after his acid bath. China acquiesces in the starvation of millions of people so it can avoid a refugee problem and a united capitalist neighbour. Muslims defend human rights until the moment they achieve majority status. Iran would nuke the Palestinians to spite the Jews. Africans depose white rulers to show off their superior oppression skills. This is the world we live in. The Woodrow Wilsons and Forrest Gumps of the world should stick to monasteries.