Metal spills over into other areas of life. Every person has a philosophy, and if they are attracted to metal, it is that personal worldview that drives them toward it and not the other way around, although certainly metal further informs that worldview. As a result, metal finds similarity in other ideals that generally seek truth instead of seeking social approval.
For this reason, society has always feared heavy metal. Society is based on control, which is based on the idea of creating a “truth” which manipulates people. This fake truth is to some degree necessary to keep people doing the things required for us all to survive, but over time it becomes tempting for those in control to skim off the top. To do this, they expand the fake truth to obligate people to do stuff that benefits the people in control.
In the 1960s, metal gave the finger to both the establishment and the hippies who were basically preaching a watered-down version of the fake truth in vogue in that era. In the 1990s, metal gave the finger to the vision of us all happily getting along. And now in the 2010s, metal may be giving the finger to the idea of society itself. This document recently appeared in our unpublished staff-only address:
INDULGE
Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
- Indulgence is a model of pleasure seeking activity.
- Empirical pleasure must exist in contrast to self-destruction if it is to be quantified in the context of carnality.
- Consumption of repetitive experience is a pathology, not indulgence.
This group will not be for the slaves, but the masters. It will draw lines and cause anger.
Membership is open and expressive. ID cards will be available soon.
[illegible] humans do not entry.
I have written back to the email address provided and await a response, although probably I am not elite enough to qualify for membership or even a ten-question interview. Whether this is fallout from the Cobalt debacle or not remains to be seen.
Tags: anti-social, evil, indulgence, occult, Satanism
“Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
Indulgence is a model of pleasure seeking activity.
Empirical pleasure must exist in contrast to self-destruction if it is to be quantified in the context of carnality.
Consumption of repetitive experience is a pathology, not indulgence.”
This is the stuff the LaVey industrial goths were on about in the 80s. Seems like a bunch of liberal individualist woowoo to me.
This doesn’t look liberal at all.
You’re the father of lies, we’re not gonna believe you.
“Indulgence is a model of pleasure seeking activity.
Empirical pleasure must exist in contrast to self-destruction if it is to be quantified in the context of carnality.
Consumption of repetitive experience is a pathology, not indulgence.”
Then
“This group will not be for the slaves, but the masters.”
Sorry mate, but if you’re a slave to “indulgence” then you’re clearly not a master. A master is only one who is unaffected – that is, unaffected by both the movements of the world and internal movements (e.g. desires). Silence is the mark of the master. This is why so many masters are ascetics, and so many seeking mastery are ascetics.
You will not overcome desire by capitulating to it. As a master once said, such activity is like “putting out a fire by pouring kerosene on it”.
Brett, this is clearly very silly. Why are you wasting your time with it?
Sounds almost like the mysterious author does not mean “indulgence” with the typical connotations. He defines it as the opposite of self-destruction (which is a bad, obviously) in the context of carnality (which is the opposite of spirituality). Mentioned later is a distinction between indulgence and pathology.
Yet you are talking as if there is no indulgence without total enslavement to whatever pleasure. You are ignoring everything between two extremes (enslavement and abstinence).
There are two extremes: are you enamoured of the world that fades, or the awareness that doesn’t? If you are enamoured of the world that fades, you will suffer, and will beget suffering; if you are enamoured of the awareness that does not fade, you cannot suffer, and cannot beget suffering. Very simple, really: if you want to get it right, keep all eyes on God; forget everything else. Unless they’re “indulging” in their natural tendency towards unity, it sounds to me like they’re just creating another bit of make-believe to while away the hours. Fine for some, and might be useful in the long run, but it’s a waste of time for most. Just look to where you come from.
I think he’s wasting his time with this because the agenda of this group seems to be anti-drug, if I’m reading the cypher correctly. This is cool.