[UA] Re: Piromancy and terrorists

[Sandra Palmer]

At 11:03 10/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> I got fixated in the taboo of the school, to be true, and overreacted. I
>> agree that terrorists doesn't consider themselves evil (read some
>> fragments of a terrorist's journal once. She was a depressive and
>> deluded woman, but she was not evil) Some of them are simply deluded.
>>
>
>Man, if you label terrorists as "deluded" in a game about people who
>slash themselves up to perform magic rituals that fly in the face of the
>laws of Nature, you need to rearrange your priorities.  There are a lot
>of terrorists out there who could make a pretty compelling argument that
>they're a lot less "deluded" than someone who buys into the lies of the
>powers that be.  For historical examples, take a look at the
>"terrorists" that founded the modern states of the USA, France, England,
>Cuba, etcetera despite the best efforts of the corrupt aristocracies
>that tried to keep them in submission.  If they strike you as deluded or
>as "cold-blooded bastards", maybe you should be playing Monopoly instead
>of a game that centers around the overthrow of an old guard and the
>disintegration of traditional power structures.
>

I disagree both politically and historically with this, ("Change, sir?
Good lord, things are bad enough as they are!") but that's strictly
off-topic, so I'll restrain myself to noting that demourgy, as presented so
far, strikes me as a very 19th century school (mechanomancy is undoubtedly
the school of 18th century revolutionaries, thanks to its associations with
Deism, reason, etc - see RAGGED ARMIES, which I will get around to
finishing someday when I'm not completely overwhelmed with work) and that
it might be interesting to present them as rather outmoded.  A modern
demourgic school, perhaps, would focus on the untapped power of the
underclass - a magick of trailer parks, single mothers, and the Jerry
Springer show.

James     

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