Why Wait? You can Have Your Beastie Now.

I find this interesting, when we throw off the rules of thinking we’ve been taught by evangelicalism in the culture, and we don’t try to titillate ourselves with numerological and symbolic esoterica, which is a form of demonism and conjuring demons, and we just think about what’s being said, there’s a lot there.

I’m not claiming that the Secretary of the Treasury, or anyone in or running for public office, is the little Beast mentioned in the Apocalypse. There are many antichrists, many beasts great and small, and many end times. But just taken as a sociological critique of culture, the parallels are brilliant, really. A first century understanding of economic centralization and control made possible only by identity consolidation of a kind not really likely except in a fear-based atmosphere of “rampant” identity theft.

The current attempt to nationalize the US economy and set up an all-powerful economic czar:

“Decisions by the Secretary (of Treasury) pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.” – Section 8 of the president’s proposal

“If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution. That’s a distinction without a difference to the American people. The key here is protecting the system.” – Sec. Treasury Paulson

These unreviewable powers to include:

  • ability of the Treasury to seize any financial institution without judicial oversight and without an appeal by the institution;
  • ability to spend up to $700 billion at a time, with no limit on how many times that $700 threshold is reached; and to reload as often as needed from a taxpayer funded account called the RTC.

The attempt, recorded in the Apocalypse, to globalize the economy and set up an all-powerful economic czar:

He causes all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and not free, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell, except someone who had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let the one who has understanding count the number of the beast: it is the number of a man.

Sweet, isn’t it?

One point for some literalism of some sort for the Orthodox: something defiling your forehead or your right hand prevents you making the sign of the cross in the normal way. Not that I profess understanding here. But it’s interesting.

On another note, it’s interesting to watch how these things come about. The Republicans try to bully and strong arm everyone into a sense of conformity and all marching in the same direction, and the Democrats act like little bitches trying to include their porkish personalization and demands, but there’s really only limp wristed questioning of whether or not this is what we’re going to do. It’s just like the war. And to those who were offended by the b-word just now, you’re about to be made into that by this particular economic empire, so get used to it.

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