baleful menace

baleful menace

Current mood: active minded

is
this still true?
[What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave.

From whom? From misery.

From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.

It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces.

At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been.

She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked.

At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.

Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they going? Why are they thus?

He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow.

He is alone. His name is God. ]



yes.

despite the amelioration of expanded opportunity for women.

is society's only coin to remain Human Misery?
god offers a barter for life which is founded upon an acceptable
premise: privation.

no one has a dispute with this coin. it is men who enforce
the fraudulent barter of de-privation that engenders
this misery of the social contract. it is the noble
cause of each Man to reject and dispense with this
evil.

this is not to merely dispel the onerous burden placed on
women, but to bring Man to the proper path of a fulfillment
of Self that acknowledges a sovereign right of each to proceed
as each sees fit.

the politics of deprivation demand that many face an undue
suffering that manifests as a bleeding sore of extreme poverty
and avoidable waste.

prostitution is no crime in the barter for escape from privation.
can Man condone these conditions with a light and carefree
chuckle under this program of artificial deprivation? the
answer is "No!"

opinions?

don