{"id":107796,"date":"2014-05-29T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=107796"},"modified":"2023-04-08T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T10:13:05","slug":"the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/05\/29\/the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BEAST"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and as such a war, against every man. (13\/8)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>To this war of every man against every man [\u2026] nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no justice. (13\/13)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Leviathan<\/em><\/strong>, Thomas Hobbes (1651)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Defined by its own horror, The Beast defiles the living and the dead. Lies! Cheating! Stealing! Killing! Its toxic mouth spews division, hate and felonious encouragement. It has no interests except its own and those are all-consuming. It rules in a Hobbesian world, where every person is at war with every person and The Beast is at war with all. Consumption, greed, violence and wealth are the supreme virtues. The Beast\u2019s police are everywhere with its deadly violence. The streets are bloody with death. The Beast has strangled justice. It rules by rules, not laws. The Beast has many backs. Media, corporations, opposition politicians, the brain-washed, the brain-dead, the needy greedy, the destructive tycoons that assassinate mountains, rivers, streams, valleys, virgin forests, farmland, the air, the sea. The Beast divides all, rages against all, slaughters all opposed to its rules. It reigns supreme in triumphant arrogance. If it pleases, even the corpses of its enemies are consumed, not by some purifying fire, but as a vengeful hate-weapon to threaten and increase its power. War is perpetual. Fear of violent death rages like a plague. The arts are destroyed.\u00a0 All representations, and imagination itself, are threats to The Beast. All nature, all living and inert things are raped to satisfy its brutish appetites. Bigger, better, taller, deeper, faster, more, more, more\u2026 Society has become a vast wasted land. There is no political community. Public gatherings are attacked. Life is poor, fear-filled, nasty and brutish. Death always comes suddenly in this land called Shame. And The Beast is always pleased with its beastly work.<\/p>\n

301 coalminers died suddenly and violently in Soma while feeding The Beast. The Beast was not embarrassed, not at all. No one believes The Beast\u2019s death toll. But there is another number, a horrific number that can indeed be trusted. The Beast\u2019s mass murder left 432 children fatherless. And then The Beast came to the grieving town.\u00a0 It beat and gassed the mourning families. It defiled their children. It proclaimed that its own violent mass murder was really quite comfortingly beautiful and, in beastly \u201ctruth\u201d, inevitable and, in beastly \u201cfact,\u201d irrelevant. It\u2019s to be expected, said The Beast. For what is life but death? And having finished The Beast hid from its grieving subjects in a supermarket, looking quite pleased with its beastly self.<\/p>\n

The other day a handful of people protested the Soma tragedy in an Istanbul section called Okmeydan\u0131. The 15-year-old Gezi murder victim, Berkin Elvan, was memorialized. It\u2019s an Alevite neighborhood and the Alevites are open-minded and sensible people. Of course, The Beast despises Alevites. The Beast tries to do in Turkey what it failed to do in Syria\u2014exterminate them. So The Beast\u2019s Police developed yet another diversionary incident. They opened fire in the street, both gas and bullets. The cops heaved a few Molotov cocktails to make it look like an attack on themselves, pure self-provocation. But it\u2019s now an old trick\u2014they did the same provocative deadly nonsense during Gezi Park. Predictably, chaos ensued. Gunfire filled the air. Two innocent men attending a funeral died, one in the street, one in the Cemevi, the Alevite worship house. The Beast called the protesters \u201cruthless.\u201d As for the dead boy from Gezi?\u00a0 \u201cHe died and it\u2019s over,\u201d said The Beast, adding that these \u201cterrorists see themselves as the saviors of the world.\u201d Such biting, irreverent sarcasm. Such malice. And again The Beast seemed pleased with itself. The Beast feeds on slander, violence and provocation.<\/p>\n

Such name-calling! Looters, plunderers, terrorists, atheists, anarchists, Marxist-Leninist communists, screams The Beast. They may be even Maoists! The Beast does not care how stupid it sounds. We, the opposed, are all of these and more, and proudly so. Its snarling\u00a0 face, its hard, black stares, its hooded eyes baggy and black\u2026 what made such a\u2026thing? \u00a0\u201cYou are the sperm of Israel,\u201d shouts The Beast. What fuels The Beast\u2019s incomparable fury? Could it be hell itself? Or something even worse?<\/p>\n

The Beasts\u2019s mind rages with conspiracies. When caught in a deceit, it spews hate to create war. Its so-called police and its so-called civil police and its so-called bodyguards are just deputized street thugs, some tricked out in uniforms, all of them goons on the order of Hitler\u2019s brownshirt street gangs. All of them praised by The Beast as heroes, saving the nation from\u2026what? Democracy? Life itself?<\/p>\n

War, war, war\u2026it\u2019s always war with The Beast. It has many backs but The Beast rides on the backs of even bigger, master beasts. These are the master killers from beyond the sea, George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama, killers and displacers of millions. Obama even won the Nobel Peace Prize! Such beastly, hypocritically evil behavior. It\u2019s their nature. So get used to it.<\/p>\n

James (Cem) Ryan<\/strong>
\nIstanbul<\/strong>
\n29 May 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.brighteningglance.org\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security. [\u2026.] In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit therefore is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (13\/9)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reference:\u00a0Leviathan<\/em><\/strong>, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Oxford University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

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