I'm now going to talk about an English folk tale that teaches the anti-tragic principle. Remember the tragic principle is that society is stabilized and equality ensured by the rich suffering ritual humiliation and pain.
England has reversed this and caused suffering worldwide.
England has reversed this and caused suffering worldwide.
Saint George and the dragon is a folktale about a town in England that was forced to give up a citizen every month to be eaten by a dragon. The person was chosen was by lottery. One month, the name of the Princess was drawn out of the lottery.
The King summoned the clergy and the judges to exempt his daughter from the sacrifice, but they refused, arguing that the process has to be seen as fair, otherwise it won't work.
So eventually, they set her up and took her to the place where she was to meet her fate.
So eventually, they set her up and took her to the place where she was to meet her fate.
They tied her up for her fate. But just as the dragon came for his monthly meal...
George to the rescue!
George was a Roman soldier and a Christian (bad sign). He drew out his sword and injured the dragon.
Then told the princess to untie her belt and throw it at the dragon.
George to the rescue!
George was a Roman soldier and a Christian (bad sign). He drew out his sword and injured the dragon.
Then told the princess to untie her belt and throw it at the dragon.
The belt went around the dragons neck, and the dragged the dragon to the outskirts of the city, where the crowd gathered.
As a one last ditch effort, the dragon tried to get up again, but George killed it.
Hadithi inaisha hapo.
Let me explain why the story is disturbing.
As a one last ditch effort, the dragon tried to get up again, but George killed it.
Hadithi inaisha hapo.
Let me explain why the story is disturbing.
I'm sure you can already tell the problem: that the King tried to get his daughter out of the hook, and yet that had been the fate of many others.
Let me contrast that story with the one told by Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop in "The Knight and his shadow."
Let me contrast that story with the one told by Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop in "The Knight and his shadow."
In his story, there is an African kingdom which also has to give tribute to its dragon. But the dragon comes only once every many years, and it comes to eat only one person: the princess, daughter of whoever is king.
So this one king sent his daughter to meet her fate.
So this one king sent his daughter to meet her fate.
As the dragon prepares to eat her, the knight arrives to rescue the princess.
But in this African story, the dragon speaks. He tells the knight:
"You innocent fool. What I'm doing is for the safety of your community. Do you know what you're doing by trying to kill me?"
But in this African story, the dragon speaks. He tells the knight:
"You innocent fool. What I'm doing is for the safety of your community. Do you know what you're doing by trying to kill me?"
The knight, a clueless young man, didn't care. He killed the dragon.
You know what that did?
It released the King from his limits. He could do what he wanted. And what followed were massacres and famine. The king didn't care how his people suffered, since he didn't suffer.
You know what that did?
It released the King from his limits. He could do what he wanted. And what followed were massacres and famine. The king didn't care how his people suffered, since he didn't suffer.
In Drop's story, there was no happily ever after when the dragon was killed to spare the princess.
But in the story of St George, there was no happily even after. Except that we are not told.
But in the story of St George, there was no happily even after. Except that we are not told.
As you know, the English are very good at hiding the massacres and famine they unleash outside their own borders. So St George did for Britain what the knight did for the king in Diop's story. It released the British Empire to unleash untold suffering around the world.
More details:
"While many people have romantic images of the British monarchy, it is a racist and violent institution that has presided over a reign of global brutality, that far exceeds that of Hitler, Stalin and King Leopold II."
counterpunch.org/2018/05/23/the…
"While many people have romantic images of the British monarchy, it is a racist and violent institution that has presided over a reign of global brutality, that far exceeds that of Hitler, Stalin and King Leopold II."
counterpunch.org/2018/05/23/the…
It the British monarchy keeps the world mesmerized so that we don't ask for the dragon back. They use Christianity to slay the dragons that keep them in check.
That's the British state that governs Kenya, where the rich don't go to the schools and hospitals the rest of us go to
That's the British state that governs Kenya, where the rich don't go to the schools and hospitals the rest of us go to
We have to ignore the church and return the orgres of our folktales. We have to bring the ogres back to eat the political class. We have to humiliate, spit on, and find other rituals to humiliate the rich. We have to make the earth swallow them.
Otherwise the Kenyan aristocrats will continue to take debt that eats the future of our kids, and to drink our blood every 5 years, and allow a white man from the US embassy to supervise the lynching of Msando, Baby Pendo and others. Our political class is evil and cannibalistic.
We must return to our stories of the tragic.
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