The Beast is Here

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently I read this piece, What rough beast, its hour come round at last, by someone who styles himself as Charles Martel, with a picture of him wearing a crown.  Whether of not that's his real name I will leave up to you.  But, for the uninitiated, Charles Martel, AKA, the Hammer of France, was the de facto ruler of France, and prevented the Muslim Moors from overwhelming Europe by defeating them at the Battle of Tours in 732 C.E.    

Well, I didn't know what the "rough beast" phrase meant, so I did a quick search and found out that's a much quoted line taken from a poem, by William Butler Yeats:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

Okay, that's the reason I never read poems.  So what's all that mean?  This was right after WWI, and we really do need to try and understand the impact of all the destruction, death, and suffering that war made on people's minds and hearts. 

 

Western civilization before 1914 considered itself beyond that kind of insanity.  Germany and France were considered Europe's cultural centers for education, science, and philosophy.  The common people saw a world of wondrous advancement, with hopes and visions of a bright future for their children.  That was not to be. 

 

WWI was the most significant event in modern history, and was merely a prelude to WWII, irreversibly destroying 2000 years of progress leaving a dark and frighten world without pity, plagued by a "tidal wave darkened by blood", with "pure destruction and lawlessness spread across the world."

What they saw then is what we're seeing now.  I've read three books on historical cycles, and while I recommend reading those kinds of books, understand, they're difficult at best, if for no other reason they don't share a common lexicon.  But they all agree on one thing.  We're now at the end of a historical cycle. 

 

"The center cannot hold, merely anarchy is loosed upon the world, the ceremony of innocence is drowned, the best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of passionate intensity"

 

All end cycle scenarios depict a plague of economic collapse and violence.  The beast is here. 

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