EXPOSITIO SECOND DIVISION:
THIRTEENTH DEMON: DOXA / BELIEVING
FOURTEENTH DEMON: TELOS / PURPOSE
FIFTEENTH DEMON: EUTAXIA / DISCIPLINE
SIXTEENTH DEMON: KOSMOS / ORDER
SEVENTEENTH DEMON: EPISTÊMÊ / KNOWLEDGE
EIGHTEENTH DEMON: APATHIA / NON-FEELING
NINTEENTH DEMON: ANANKÊ / CONTROL
TWENTIETH DEMON: ARCHON / RULING
TWENTY-FIRST DEMON: ARCHOMENON / RULED
TWENTY-SECOND DEMON: EIDÔLOLATRIA / IDOLATION
TWENTY-THIRD DEMON: THEÔRIA / ABSTRACTION
TWENTY-FOURTH DEMON: HYBRIS / HUBRIS
THIRTEENTH DEMON: DOXA / BELIEVING(a man with a sheep's head)
hush now, sweet baby,
hush, go to sleep
surrender to dreams now
to dreams we now feed you
to dreams we now give you
to dreams we now live you
there's nothing wrong with your screen
we are now
controlling the appearance
controlling the vertical
controlling the horizontal
to push you now
to small a scope just
make you see not
outer limits
outer reaches
outer things that need concern you not, my dear
hush now, sweet baby,
you're one of us now
you've been saved
you're better this way
you're better now
better than those fools
that just won't believe
that just won't confirm
that just won't shut up
hush now, sweet baby
let show us your part
see the world not as it is
see it just as it's supposed to
it's supposed to be and feel
truth's a thing
we make inside
we make to suit us, make to serve us
make all just quite how you like it
make it all
and make it so
FOURTEENTH DEMON: TELOS / PURPOSE(Aristotle)
there's a purpose here, you see?
there's a way to go
a road
an option
everything
in utter wisdom so conceived
be believed it now and heard
see the end
see the purpose
feel the urge to just make sense
just submit yourself, your soul
just give in
you know you want to
know you need to
seest not
the time is now
the place is here
see the nature of a thing
see its nature
not its end
ain't its end
its truest purpose
ain't that what just makes it go
see the end
reveal the beginning
see the purpose
dictate the life
see the fate
the destiny
determine being
consciousness
seest not
why don't you see
you should, you know,
and soon you will
a singer sings
a writer writes
a dancer dances
the poet acts
make the thing
till make you it will
FIFTEENTH DEMON: EUTAXIA / DISCIPLINE(a well-trained shepherd dog)
there's no order here, you see
holy orders
hier-archies
things you just won't question, dear
just a fool tries on the windmills
just a fool
a fucking fool
and don't you dare
confront the idols of the weak
confront the things
they need to feel strong
they need for their hate
they need for authority
they just need to keep the order
have a right to, don't you see?
they keep the world running
keep the wine coming
keep the blood flowing
they're the good ones
cherished stars
cherished canon
cherished priests of worldly might
and things, though worldly, painted like spirit
they'll discipline
they'll punish you
they will observe
and will decide
you better watch out
and be a good patriot
act like they wish
and learn their language
and dead you'll become
inside
SIXTEENTH DEMON: KOSMOS / ORDER(a spider-demon in its cobweb)
see me spinning
see me turning
all around, around, around so
see the threads
I'm weaving now
see them now
don't see them later
later all's internalized
see the webs
the cobby little needy threads
that all's suspended from
all's depending from
all's so kindly seeking by themselves
it's an order
it's a cause
it's a thing you need now tend to
caught I have you
in my realm
in my palace of subservience
see the structure be the dominant
see the things
appear as counter-points
counter-answers
counter-realms
fly they all
into my net
into my stickiness
and vanish they all
and vanquished they all
in vain their efforts
vain their essence
vain their existence
vain their thoughts
and vain their being:
see them dance
like little nymphs
and little leaves turned on by the wind
so see me now
deny all knowledge
forcing you
into a world my own
my name is Narcissus
I serve myself
I see myself
I sing myself
and make your self
sing me in stead of you
believe the lie
that all is empty
all is vain
and knowledge gathered
won't mean a thing
any more
see the structures
post the structures
see the nets
behind the nets
see you not
you can't escape me
there's no hope
just matrices of all so pre-fetched
pre-digested
pre-infested
pre-requested
pre-judicial
mind-fucking
mind-sucking
mind-suckling
psycho-galaktôn
like a galaxy of lights
seen as ones not
seen but as zeroes forming a whole
and parts are the whole
the whole makes the parts
the parts are lost
and parts are lost
can't speak themselves
can't make themselves
and can't see their essence
see their existence
see their nature
see their truth
there's no truth
not in nor but out there
believe this lie
and don't fight back
sing it back
and seek no pleasure
seek no life
for life's a text
that knows no author
knows no freedom
knows no fate
but what's within it
sacred order
don't you question
don't you dare
be correct in what you are saying
what you are thinking
think the thoughts
that made already
walk no path your own, I dare you
I'm the order
I'm the thing
I'm the essence
resistance?
I am resistance
resisting life
for the sake of life
resisting death
for the sake of death
resisting the image
for the sake of the image
so deconstruct
you'll just assist mine obfuscation
see the discourse
spinning around me
see them believe
t' be living their lives
they're living me
they're making me
they're living the lie
denying all truth
denying all essence
denying all nature
denying all being
for see me they don't
any more
serve the servants
resistance is futile
join the collective
join the communion
make it all
a happy, big family
a happy, big unity
don't see you,
I love you
I give you the answers
give you
the key
to lock up behind me
so let it go
and live in peace
SEVENTEENTH DEMON: EPISTÊMÊ / KNOWLEDGE(a cat)
see the madness all around so
people talking funnily
all's just words they say,
and meanings,
all's just knowledges
and signs
signifiers all so floatingly
happily around
in a world that is just text
that's just discourse, we're just bait -
and everywhere there's dominance
and everywhere's subservience
concernocrats the Tiger calls them
nature speaking for her self, it seems,
for they've so lost it here, o dear,
they've come astray
in dark a tunnel
and where there's words just, there's no truth
and where's no truth, remains no hope
denied all knowledge but they have
and all is kept
are broken minds
and thoughts that constitute mere masturbation
than an honest quest
for truth
[1]
conspiracy!
they scream
on "left" and "right"
there's just stupidity all over here
and no conspiracy
will hold
and stand
(whispering now)
knowledge we seek
knowledge we speak
knowledge we hear
knowledge we fear
it's in the will
it's in the kill
it's in the plentifold
unifold
antifold
knowledge-inciter
knowledge-enticer
knowledge-maker
knowledge-faker
(crescendo)
fakes it all
and not to better
take your ache
and see it faking
take your bous
and run strophê it
take the ox
to plough the fields
the fields of sorrow
fields of joy all
fields of pain
(fortissimo)
strike
the pain and
mike
the words and
yikes
it all and
fuck
it all and
fucks
it all
within
without
withal
with all
knowledge-maker
knowledge-berater
knowledge-belater
turns it all and not to better
fake it all
and fake shall be it
fake shall see it
fake all ends
all ends are fake
are realest maker
of the times
are realest
(ad libidum)
frell, I'm lost, please help
my name is
John Crichton
shot through a wormhole
some distant part
universe
try
stay alive
abort
this ship, this living ship
escaped prisoners (friends)
you can hear me
beware
I make it back
they follow
I open the door
are you ready
Earth is unprepared (helpless)
for the nightmares I've seen
should I stay, protect my home?
not show them you exist?
but then
you'll never know
the wonders I've seen!
these are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise
it's ongoing mission
missionize
missionary
missing
missing links is all we are
lost in time
lost in ---
frell, I'm lost
please help,
please hear me fear me steer me
up we go
and down we'll fall and
pop
goes the weasel
wait
booting
reloading
matrix
now
alors
qu'est-ce qu'ils sont
les mots et les choses
qu'est-ce que leur vie
leur voix
leur esprit
est-ce que la nature
ce nom contesté
signifiant -
que ?
signifiant -
comme ?
signifiant -
où ?
signifiant
pas signifiant
les choses et les mots
la poule et les oeufs
mais si, avons-nous
les choses avant nous
le ridicule de Derrida
le fou de Foucault
Deleuze de luxe
me donne, s'il te plaît
seulement le qu' tu penses
ne dis me rien
le que t'as lu
ne dis me rien
le qu'ont dit les autres
ne te protège pas
devant faux intérêts
rien ne va plus
si ne peux tu croire
à une réalité
à une essence
à une existence
le tout et le part
unité en différence
différence en unité
signifiant
rien
et tout
préférant
une folie aux uns
sur folies aux tous
alors
qu'est-ce qu'ils sont
les mots et les choses
les mots sont ouvertes
les choses
je ne sais rien[2]
in principio erat verbum
et verbum erat apud deum
et verbum erat deus
et deus erat verbum
verbum dixit
creamus mundum
et mundus creatur
et mundus erat apud deum
et mundus erat deus
et deus erat mundus
deusque dixit
creamus vitam
de vita nostra
et vita creatur
et vita erat apud mundum
deum
verbum
vitam esse
putamus[3]
[1]
knowledge
or knowledges
truth
or truths
essence
or essences
existence
or existences
nemesis
or nemeses
good
or goods
bad
or bads
wrong
or wrongs
right
or rights
is there anything to see?
is there anything to be?
how can I
estimate things
at all
once all's so blurred
once all's so complicated
nothing's blurred
it's getting blurred
nothing's complicated
it's being complicated
interests hiding between higher words
morality's a word
written with four letters
like ethos is
and mores maiores
are just obfuscation for interests hidden
for thoughts immature
sanctified by bad a conscience
politics of identity
politics of insanity
identity politics
insanity politics
tell me who you are
I tell you who you're supposed to be
who you are
supposed to stand for
to represent
to indicate
to advocate
or to indict:
white can't see black
black can't see white
male can't see female
female can't see male
what have we come to
who are those
posing as knights in white armor
who are those fighting for
who are those yelling for
they're making the lines
they're taking the sides
they're blurring the essence
the only essence
the human soul
the human condition
for human we are
and nothing else matters
and knowledge denied
will haunt you, will keep you
in bondages new
in bondages old
and still we resist
in seeking not knowledge
in seeking but safety
and fake affirmation
a sweet masturbation
that hides what is there
b'hind blah-blahs of posture
and self-declared ethics
there are no ethics
there is no morality
but that which is true
and that which is human
the truth in structures won't be found
the truth in single cells not lying
it's both in these
and too in those
it's one, the other, and the same
and see you can't
the forest for the trees
the trees for the forest
conservative conschmersative
liberal schmiberal
leftist schmeftist
rightist schmightist
those are just terms
coined for the stupid
the idiot confirmers
of ways not their own
the babbling repeaters
of falsely-wrought wisdoms
that seek not the truth but eas'ly-held answers
that care not for knowledge
that care not for doubt
that care just for saying,
we're right, they are wrong
when see you millions of people marching for a cause
see you also
who's standing behind them?
see you also
who's shaping their knowledge
see you also
who's keeping them marching?
deusque dixit
creamus vitam
de vita nostra
vitaque dixit[4]
he says she says he says she says
fa la la la tra la la la
EIGHTEENTH DEMON: APATHIA / NON-FEELING(the three monkeys)
I do not see
I do not hear
I do not speak
shoulda woulda coulda?
maybe so
maybe not
seest not
the path is dangerous to walk upon
what are the benefits of doubt?
shall risk I all
for just a shady grain of truth?
and what's the nature of such things?
seest not
I take no action
take no choice
all's just equally so distant
all's just equally disjoint
all's awry
all's in flight
should I not
retain my self?
should I not
protect my self?
should I not
return into the deepest refuge right within
I sing my self
I celebrate my self
I masturbate my self
I see my self and nothing else
shall hold their will
all's just voices in the darkness
all's just things constructed, empty
all's just void in utter vanity
sole my essence
sole my existence
is the mark
the marker of life
ipso facto
see I not
hear I not
speak I not
see it dripping
see it pouring
see it flow
and bow to life
bow to what's been lost and gained
bow to what's
another chapter
other story
not your own
it's just an other
why should I
respect a cause
when causes empty all and all corrupted
why should I
avoid my regression
avoid my self
avoid my I
there's no feeling left
just things to have and things to own
and it's the truest thing on Earth
for how could there be
an essence, a something
when all's so much simpler without such concreteness?
NINTEENTH DEMON: ANANKÊ / CONTROL(Faust)
parts just flowing freely here
parts associate themselves
make their own small interplay
see them floating
freely
unknowingly
see them disregard
the whole
shan't we see
shan't we plea
shan't we see to things to combine
to form a greater unity and shape
and shape them anew
and make them anew
why should we
accept what is
why should we
respect the chaos
why should we
respect what's not within the futures to come
why should we
trust in the order of things
why
and how
no patience is in me
and there's no way
to see me wait
I want it now
and want it all
shall see you now
the things that need seeing
shall be you now
the things that need being
shall have you now
the things that need having
wer reitet so spät
habe nun, ach,
durch Nacht und Wind
im Innersten zusammenhält
und in seinen Händen
verpestet alles schon Errungene
das Kind
alles Vergängliche
war tot[5]
TWENTIETH DEMON: ARCHON / RULING(Fortuna)
lift the veil
the veil of fire
fire's beast
and fire's bitch
lift the veil
see it finally
need to hide not any more
any longer
any further
see the ruling
take a form
see the form
beget a ruling
rule the Earth
and rule the skies
rulers all
rulers fall
turns the wheel
the wheel of fire
wheels of fire-birds all feathered
feathered god and plumes within so
make the sun
go round again
make it all
Quetzal-Coatl
see the fire, make it go
snake of fire
fire-breather
fire-eater
sun-eater
sun-feeder
fire
begetting fire
life
begetting life
death
begetting death
hearts of stone
melting to stone
again
not the magma hurling down, deep down it all
let me press control-s right now
I fear I'm losing it
even if on paper
need to save
to save from what?
save your self
and not your things
see the sun setting
it's getting dark
O Fortuna,
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut descrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Fortune rota volvitur:
descendo minoratus;
alter in altum tollitur;
nimis exaltatus
rex sedet in vertice
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam[6]
TWENTY-FIRST DEMON: ARCHOMENON / RULED(a mass of people wearing the same faceless face)
so give us someone
give us somebody
someone to look up to
someone to turn to
we need just
to find a fate
we need just
to find a direction
we need just
to find a Shepard
can't you see? we can't do this on our own
we can't do it
we can't do it
there's no way we could transcend
we could just act
we could just learn
there's no way
and there's no cause
give a cause us, give a reason,
may we now
project our wishes
unto those who care to rule us
give them power whence we deem
take it away whence stand it we can't any longer
says the chicken, let's lay an egg
says the egg, let's grow a chicken
TWENTY-SECOND DEMON: EIDÔLOLATRIA / IDOLATION(a mirror)
is there not
a one to go
a one to see
a one we could just here declare
a hero
master
savior
god
a goddess we would need to honor
sacrifice
what hold we dear
see you not
I see
I wonder
crave you not
you see
it's easy
you know that you want it now
you're a being caught and broken
need a token
to reclaim
your self
your soul
soul-waker
soul-maker
soul-taker
soul-faker
see the self
be multiplied
see it yearning
climbing
surging
like a ship moves on the waves
you know that you want it and how
let yourself
be swept all over
let your self
be carried away
and the answers
lie before you:
see the meaning
meaning's given
seek no worth
for all's subjective
seek no facts
for all's constructed anyway
into my solipsism enter
into my sacred inner realism
sing my self
and sing you will
lose yourself
lose your self
but not to nothingness eternal
just to vanity within -
seek the pleasure purest matter
seek the blissful pain-reducing
pain-inducing
pain-negating
pain-elating
stuff
lose your self
and lose your soul
TWENTY-THIRD DEMON: THEÔRIA / ABSTRACTION(a book)
there's an A
there is a B
B's not A
A is not B
may it be now
shall it be?
could it be?
what to be?
all we see?
all we see
we see therefore we be
we be therefore we see
we bee therefore we be
see we not
hear we not
alas, observe!
why should observe we
can't we not
just think it through?
and in those thoughts
and theory
and theory-making
theory-breaking
should we not
see what's right?
should we not
think what can be thought?
think what can be wrought?
see you, we can understand!
see you, we can now, at last, control!
see the things
not through a glass darkly
not just through images on the wall of the cave ---
see the things
and travel there ---
see the places
in our minds
see the islands form in the oceans of narrative all
see the places, hear the names
the cold
the thirty
the confrontations all t' be seen ---
so, Father, tell me,
what have you seen?
tell me all,
I need to know it
tell me all,
and tell it quickly,
Plato's disciple I am;
so what about those fools
who value theory so much
deride experience for sake of babbling?
see you them
see you the future?
see you the present?
see you the past?
past all knowledges to go
past all knowledges to show
past all knowledges
sci
audi
vide
excita
et face[7]
but they won't hear
they never hear
they never listen
see, that's why I still can talk in their heads
that's why I still can poison their minds!
that's why I still
am here to stay
TWENTY-FOURTH DEMON: HYBRIS / HUBRIS(a man)
let me tell a story now
quite small a story, fragments just
'cause let's just now
seek different things
and different ways
and different paths to sink our minds into
for there was a man
(there always is)
who went to the grass, a leaf of grass,
asking it, how strong but you are?
and whence do you come from?
and where do you go to?
he heard not a thing
and so thus assumed,
just quite on his own,
that there had to be quite strong a defiance right here
for, so you know,
you don't just defy
you don't just resist
you don't just not respond to this!
he said to the leaf,
I'm asking you kindly,
I'm asking you mildly,
I beg you so full of politest, kind interest now:
so say what I ask you
so say you your answer
yet hear he did nothing
so now, in his furor, he took on the grass
and ripped it right off
and proudly declared he an enemy down
for answer it didn't to all his demands
had but he but listened
had but he but heard
it answered but clearly
and answered but rightfully,
I'm here so you and your kind can stand
and go on declaring
and go on in staring
and go on in faring the things that you do;
yet did he but listen?
and did he but see?
what was there to see.
what was there to hear.
it just had been
a leaf of grass
and go on he did
and went to the river
and went to the water
so sep'rate before me!
so make that you leave
and go out the way -
I'm coming, I'm wanting, I'm seeking a path -
so why would you now
reject me my givens
my God-given fortune
and God-given legacy -
for you're just unensouled a being
unbeknownst to life's own secrets
you're just component, element, and vain -
so why you not
go out my way
I can't quite get
and I shall get
to set you limits
set you paths that not your own quite are
but just mine own self interests are served -
for see you not -
for hear you not -
for know you not -
I am the ruler of the things
I am the thing
that knows no greater
knows no bigger
knows no worthier than me -
I even gods created have
in mine own image
mine own form
with mine own attributes and feelings
mine own hopes and fears and things to want
for see, my friend,
it's not quite true
that killed we have God -
for quite, au contraire,
it's us who created him
it's us who made him
in thine image? you make me laugh
we have the gods
appear like ourselves
we have the gods
be castrated nothings
and have the elements bow to our cries
and bow to our mumblings and rantings and ravings -
for how but not could we!
we are the chosen ones
we are the choosers
we are the chosen by own a volition -
we are the mighty ones
we are those
who right here decide
who lives
and who dies
and you're in the way
--- had heard he the water,
he would hear the warning
he would hear the asking
he would hear the questions
he would hear the answers
but how d 'you give answers
to those who deny them?
he went to the hills
he went to the mountains
he went to the deserts
he went into space
he asked all around
but what do you get
when know you an answer
when know you replies
when know you the formulae
know you the recipes
know you the tricks
but know you no essence
and know not existence?
'cause that's not to say
he wouldn't succeed
but maybe the things
to try to succeed in
are wasted by trying
to want wrongest things
are wasted by trying
to take on the world
and it wants not take you but guide you and aid you
when see you just parts
when there's but a whole
for parts are just pieces left over from surgery
they need to regrow
they need to rejoin
they need to re-form
and need to relive
we come in circles
we come in cycles
we come and relive
we come and seek it all to end
while ends don't matter
and ends we shan't suffer -
the path all but failing -
the path all but waning -
and more of the same
just isn't enough...
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