Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
~~Friedrich NietzscheThe great American mythologist
Joseph Campbell once said that our idea of Satan is slightly warped. Satan is not something to avoid and dismiss but something to embrace. As in all myths, symbols make up the terrain of the land and are the guideposts to recognizing a great awakening.
The Devil, on one level, simply represents the aspect of our life which is utterly rational: bereft of emotion or feeling. Our modern life has become sanitized beyond recognition. Our churches, our clergy and our religion has been de-mythologized; de-mystified. The "great sponge" has wiped away our horizons and left us in a metaphorical WasteLand where our senses are indulged but our inner spiritual life is disrupted and broken.
One sign of this WasteLand came to light today as I was reading an article in
"Der Spigel". Entitled
Falling in Love with Things, the story highlights the outward manifestations of people who are so disconnected from their inner-life and sprituality that they literally "fall in love" with inanimate objects.
One woman has taken 2 towers as her life-mate, one guy loves his Macintosh iBook, and one lonely man initally fell head-over-heels for a Hammond organ (paging Dr. Freud!) but now devotes his time to a minature steam locomotive.
And, not only am I saying that these people are bonding with their love objects on a superficial basis, they are literally having sex with these objects. The woman with the towers had a pair reduced to 1:1,000 scale and coated with anodized aluminum so she could "take a pleasurable bath" with them. God only knows where the train-guy makes penetration!
I read the article and shook my head. It shows how debased we've become. From online porn to the murderous violence glorified in the latest rap music release, we have become a society of utter objectification. A man can project his most perverted fantasies upon a female porn star online and "feel" satisfaction after the act because he's fully entranced in the fantasy. His emotions are screaming to get out but he keeps them at bay by "self-medicating" himself (ie. masturbating) to ephemeral images on his computer.

My friend Steve kept a collection of old Playboy magazines in his crawlspace. He intended to hold them until they got to be antiques. He was then going to sell them on Ebay. One day he went down there and found that they'd been getting rained on by a leak in the floor - they were ruined. I remember him telling me how sad he felt seeing those old mags ruined and rotting. He got alittle choked up and said, "Those were
my girls and now they're gone." I guess jerking off 20 times to Miss June 1971 left a lasting impression on him.
So it is no stretch to see that some people have now taken that line of action to its logical extreme by literally projecting emotions and attachment to an object. It is what elderly and lonely people do every day when they get a small dog. Even Micheal Savage has a webpage devoted to his toy poodle "Teddy". He loves that dog like it was a child of his - you should hear him talk about it. He takes the dog with him to restaurants, talks to it like it understands him, feeds it from the table - he practically burps it!
I can understand that this aspect of our disjointed culture; that part that is withering, dead and as frail as a brown and wrinkled leaf - upsets devout Muslims. Religion is very important to them. You won't read articles in Al-jezeera putting down Islam because Islam is the rock of their society. Christianity gets demonized all the time by the MSM. It is the NYTimes's favorite whipping-boy.
So while Germans are remaining single, lonely and childless - Muslims are falling in love with real life people, marrying and having 5 children.
No wonder Europe is dying.