Here are the new commandments and dogmas, written on brand new Tablets, so much superior to the old nasty ones. There are no less than twenty of them.
- You shall respect all the cultures of other peoples, and you will not be one of these racists who dare to think your own people have a respectable culture. The mouth of Leviathan has spoken.
- You must vote for X. You must not vote for Y, and you must defend the freedom of voting and the pluralism of parties, the keystone of our democracy.
- You must believe that Leviathan medicine is so powerful that it will eliminate death, and if in the meantime it puts you in the cemetery, rejoice! It is a further sign of its power.
- You must believe that Leviathan democracy does not exist without free trade and free movement of capital and therefore if this sacred freedom puts you out of work, rejoice! You are saving the planet and democracy.
- You must praise all immigration, and you must criticize all colonization (except in tiny parts of the world).
- You will respect the idiot and the deplorable and always have positive and consoling words for them. If the people have no bread, can’t buy meat, tell them to become vegan and eat organic foods. If they can’t buy an electric car, tell them to ride a bike. If they are not happy, tell them that living in a democracy is a privilege that is bound to have a downside.
- You will bless the wisdom of Leviathan Wall Street philosophers who allow you to live in a much cleaner country and in a moral order based on rules, a world order based on rules, and you will curse those Chinese bastards because they pollute the planet with their filthy industry.
- You will believe that Leviathan grants you the right to think what you want, and you will always think properly. Never think what Leviathan does not want you to think.
- You will hate superstition and fanaticism, and you will honor your holy mother Gaia.
- You will firmly believe that there is no human nature, and you will respect nature.
- You will believe that human rights and democracy are sacred, and you will assert the right to blasphemy because there is nothing sacred. The mouth of Leviathan has spoken.
- You will believe that all animals have rights as well as you. You will have respect for the animal that you are. You will only genocide or exterminate useless and deplorable animals, if it is strictly necessary for the common interest of the rich.
- You will believe that the bonobo is good; so you will imitate the bonobo’s goodness, and you will believe that the chimpanzee is not good, so you will not imitate the chimpanzee’s wickedness.
- You will believe that humans have more than 98 percent in common with chimpanzees, and that society makes chimpanzee wicked by repressing him.
- You will firmly believe that we are not born male or female apes, but that we become them if we want to be so.
- You will enforce the strictest equality of the male monkey and the female ape in all human zoos.
- You will worship the cult of difference, and you will do so exactly like everyone else.
- You will show solidarity with the weakest, and you will believe that abortion is a fundamental right until the end of the ninth month at least.
- Out of love, you will help your elders die, and you will receive your inheritance with dignity.
- You will believe that a man can become a woman, and you will believe that a democracy can never transition into a totalitarianism.
Such are the new Laws and the new Dogmas that descend from the heights of Leviathan. Perhaps our rulers take us for idiots, and they are not entirely wrong. Perhaps we have witnessed an almost complete extinction of critical thinking.
Featured: Hamilcar Barca in the Temple of Moloch, by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (ca. 1900).
