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“Satan is the rock that hides our fears, insecurities, prejudices and violent tendency. Satan is humanity’s closet—the dark place we stuff the things that don’t fit in our living rooms, the things we don’t want to display. He is our collective blindspot—the space that doesn’t matter, the place that can’t be talked about. It’s the label we use to deny, denigrate, strip and punish. Nietzsche warned us of this danger in Beyond Good and Evil: One who fights with monsters should beware, lest he himself become thereby a monster. And if you peer long into an abyss, the abyss peers back into you.”
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
“The right to rebel, to defy, to refuse – these are the things that make us human, that give us freedom. The essential problem facing mankind (but especially creatives, writers and artists of that time period) was how to free themselves completely from tradition and outside influences, so that they could fully discover and be themselves”
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
“If you look for Evil and believe in it, you accept the diabolical as natural and hence unchallengeable; and open yourself to becoming Evil yourself in the quest to defeat what you fear. Satan is the personified place-holder, the boogie monster, the conscious manipulator who is using this or that evil thing to wreak disaster and havoc on humanity. Thus “rock and roll” is Satanic, as is dancing, gay marriage, and in more conservative countries, revealed skin, holding hands, educated women—but these definitions are fluid. What definition applies completely to Satan himself; what is is evil by itself? What made Satan evil?”
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
― Evil Be My Good: An Unauthorized Paradise Lost Study Guide
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