What's Goin' On, What's Goin' On...

Did you see this photograph on the front page of your newspaper? (This was in my Los Angeles Times.) Were these images highlighted as part of the lead story in your evening news? You'd think Congress were interviewing Helen of Troy with all the media attention. And you know? They probably were speaking with the modern-day equivalent of the face that launched a thousand ships.

Of course, the significant part of that is that it is--

All part of the mythology.

Valerie Plame is merely a dupe in the exhaustive efforts of the Legacy of Cain to manage the sinfulness of a vast Catholicized population. All cameras must be focused on her to keep everyone's attention off what's actually going on. And this isn't mere conspiracy theorist blithering. It's all laid out for you to see, quite plainly.

It's right there in the Bible.

How ironic that so many look at incidents like this as though it's the real truth, but consider the Bible a collection of fairy tales and legends. Funny. Whenever called on why they believe so, they don't have much to say. About insipid government machinations they speak so authoritatively, yet can never say why those are so meaningful.

I was listening to a morning radio newscast the other day, and a CBS "terrorism expert"--a former CIA agent no less-- was being interviewed about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's confession that he was the mastermind of everything from 9/11 to Lincoln's assassination. A number of times he called it a "performance," moving one of the newscasters to remark, "Hmm, you keep referring to it as a 'performance.'"

Since then, people have been asking, "Was this guy's confession just a display of bravado, not really meaning much but a bit of perverse entertainment?" It is almost as if the disseminators of official Roman drama deliberately amplified the charade to draw people into the charade.

It's worth noting (oh the splendid irony of it all!) that last week the premiere postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard died. He was famous for saying that everything is essentially a grand Walt Disney simulation. Everything is just simulacra, he said, the fake now more real than the real.

Of course lots of people made great fun of him, all of them certainly knowing what's actually real and all.

Oh. Cynical me. I just don't think they do.

Look at all the cameras in the face of Plame. They're there for a reason. Those news guys don't get the big bucks for nothing. And lots of cameras are in the faces of all the other mythological characters that drive society's "reality." Many of them are Jesuses.

There don't seem to be many focusing on the Jesus of Scripture, the One who reigns at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty. But then, that's probably a good thing, since He doesn't really want to be up there on the big plasma screen television.

He'd like to be in the heart, where it's meaningful.

To see a list of some of the mythological Jesuses, go here.