Human Sacrifice
By Case Wagenvoord
02 November, 2009
Countercurrents.org
How many minutes does it take to cut the heart out of a living man with an obsidian dagger? How long to make a slit in his abdomen just above the diaphragm? How many seconds does it take an Aztec priest to slide his hand under the rib cage and sink his nails into the still beating heart of the victim? How high is the geyser of blood as the heart is torn free of its arteries? At what point does death close the eyes of the victim.
The Aztecs knew they could only placate their god of empire with human blood. So they engaged in continual warfare to take prisoners for the sacrifice.
Nothing has changed. The god is just as greedy; he still demands his victims. But, instead of the blood of individuals, he demands the souls of civilizations.
The Aztecs sacrificed their victims on altars atop pyramids that reached for the heavens. Sacrifices to the contemporary god take place in the shantytowns of the Third World that fan out from their metropolises.
How long does it take to carve the soul out of a civilization?
The Aztec’s bloodlust placated their gods. The contemporary bloodlust is grounded in the papier-mâché realities of academic policymakers. Superstition drives both. An obsidian dagger could kill only one person at a time. A well-formed policy can kill millions. And a policy is not a policy until the last shred of morality has been drained from it.
Every empire is a culture of death; it is a culture that puts military and economic considerations ahead of human life and well-being. The bones of the poor and the suffering feed the furnaces of our prosperity. It is thus that God has blessed America.
The sweet irony is that even as the empire carves out the souls of others, it is carving out its own soul at the same time. Fortunately, for the empire, hubris anesthetizes, so it never notices the loss.
Case Wagenvoord blogs at http://belacquajones.blogspot.com. He welcomes comments at [email protected].
