Apocalypse Culture (1987) Edited by Adam Parfrey
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Apocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis ofour times. This is an extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered-a remarkable compi/alion of powerfully disturbing statements. These are the tennina/ documents of the twentieth century. -J. G. Ballard
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APOCALYPSE CULTURE
Edited by Adam Parfrey
AMOK PRESS New York
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LATTER-DAY LYCANTHROPY 19 "throw off the fatal wolf's mask," hopes to tether homo sapiens to the Judeo-Christian ideal. Oswald Spengler, on the 01he r hand, considered the pc;1ce-wish of refined intellec1s the death-throes of a L:.ite Civilization. In The Decline of the Wes! Spengler declares, "For world-peace-which has oflen existed in fact- involves the private renunciation of war on the pan of !he immense majority. but along with this it involves an unavowcd readiness to submit to being the booty of others who do not renounce it." The enemy of civilization, to S~ngler, is world-weariness, a loss of the animating spirit of the (i n the Jungian sense) daimon. If wolf-like amorality and aggression is in cenain measure necessary 10 the survival of civili7..ation, civilization at all times attempts to protect it· self from the lupine individual. fc.f. Freud, Civilization and irs Discontents] Nole mass media's description of a killer or assassin as a "lone wolf," or the characterizing of street gangs as "wolf packs." Li11lc Red Riding Hood as a parable of sexual awakening was effectively ireated in a recent movie titled The Company of Wolves in which lhe wolf is portrayed as an erotic stranger whose lycanthropic sexuality subverL-. his social conscience. Hard on the heels of Gary Hart's resignation from the 1988 presidential race, columnist George F. Will writes: Han's problem can be called the Wolf Factor. Fred Barnes of the New Republic repons that Han recently wrote an autobiographical essay in which he claimed that at age four in Kansas he (these arc Hart's words) "came almost face to face wirh a large gray wolf," and that recently in Colorado he ''lracked a timber wolf 100 yards from our door." The Audubon Society says tha1 wolves have been virtually extinct in the West since 1930. Wolf meets wolf. Judeo-Christianity severed the bond with the Earth-spirits to engage in the Talmudic huir-splitting of God-as-legislator. Old habits die hard. though, and Nat ure remains a bewitching force even if the will of Faustian men anempt improvements on Her. The call of the wolf, as explained by the salacious priest-historian Momague Summer!i (The Werewolf), was strong enough for many 10 fear in earnest the werewolf and shape-changer even as scientific rationalism eclipsed Christianity. The Werewolf Corps. organized by Joseph Goebbels at the biller end of WWII. stressed individual acts of terror in order to subvert Allied occupation. Teenagers. housewives. violent felons and mental patient-. were loosed in emula1ion of Wotan and his wolf-companions on ·•wild night" hunts. Effective and feared, the Werewolf Corps has been itself the model for many contemporary !error organizations such as the Turkish Gray
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Wolves, who freed Agca to take a polshot at Pope John Paul IL It has been suggested by lhe conspiracy researcher E. Edwin Aus1in in The Conspiracy Tra cker 1ha1 certa in notorious muss murder cases evince similarities to Werewolf Corps modus operandi. combining slayings of government employees with apparent cult rituals. The rock band Radio Werewolf borrows its moniker from the notorious Goebbels radio broatk asts which exhorted Gennan civilians to fight stealthily and ferociously the Allied occupational forces. The Radio Werewolf "Indoctri nation" manitesto (sec illustration) cele brates the lunar force of animist apocalypse as a reaction against d irectionless humanity. When Christians and other moralists preach against the wolf they are propagandizing against pagan mystical states of ecstatic ill umination. which oflen go hand·in·hand wilh reve rsion to animal-like sadistic violence. Notes O.T.O. member Kenneth Grant in M eister Cro wley and the Hid dt•n God: the Kundalini (tantric euphemism for 1he "Fire Snake'' of sexual enligluenme nt found in the spine) can be "stirred and sometimes fully fo!'o!'
Nature knows no political boundaries. First she puts living c reatures on the globe and wa1ches the free play of force. She then confers the master's right on her favorite child. the strongest in courage and industry. iJ.iJ. iJ. iJ. iJ.
Trusl your instincts, your feelings. or whatever you like to call them. Never trust your knowledge. The experts never have the 1rue instinct. You must never seek i1 in them. but only in yourself.
til< The masses need somethi ng for 1he imagination. they need fixed, permanent doctrines. The initiates know that there is nolhing fi xed. that everything i!> eonlinually changing. '1I