Do What Thou Wilt

Aleister Crowley said
| “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
Great theory, dummy.
Laws are made to prohibit certain things.
If all is permissible, then you’ve no longer got a law, you’ve got a complete damned free-for-all.
The world’s most aggressive power bottom just said the dumbest thing in the world!
Why would you assume that any and all actions were acceptable!?
Unless context was necessary. In which case…

Friedrich Nietzsche said “God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?”
Geez, Friedrich. Chill out for a half-second.

Both of these quotes reject the superstructure of prior generations.
Laws, and gods, and traditions are cultural architecture that we are unwillingly born into.

I say this not as some Randian piss priest,
but as an emissary of the possible.
Humanity has always been a collaborative effort.
We incubate in our mothers’ wombs for 9 months because other people were looking out for our mothers.
We are helpless and weak for years because of collective care and protection.
Some antelope and lizards are born ready to fight.
Not humans.
We depend on each other to become actualized.

Capitalism has taken on the role of the Demiurge, the great and terrible Satan that teaches all of us that we are alone, and that we are in competition, and life and love are a zero-sum game.
In order to gain, someone else must lose.
This is the great death-gift that our world teaches.
Money must triumph over your brothers and sisters and lovers.
How many families will be torn apart over inheritance?
Why does it cost money to die?
Money, representation of worth, bites into our brains and lives and shakes it into pale pink slurry.

Do what thou wilt, and god is dead.
We have no obligation to conform to the sickly black traditions of our ancestors.
The future can be anything we make of it, and it will take courage and persistence.
We will tread into uncharted territory.
We will walk into a deep black night with fire in our eyes and know not fear. The future is terrifying but to step into the dark without being prepared is the way to Become.