The Faust Effect
Historically, Satanic media like “Faustus” framed itself as moralizing, making it “okay” for people to read scandalous things. But who were they fooling?
Historically, Satanic media like “Faustus” framed itself as moralizing, making it “okay” for people to read scandalous things. But who were they fooling?
In spite of what you might assume, I like angels. In fact, I know quite a few, and odds are you do too. If you’re reading this, you might even be one.
The way things are right now, anger is the only mature response. In Black Metal I distinguish not just anger, but defense of the right to even BE angry.
Through stories like the Satan myth, we can confront our own falliblity. If we don’t, then we condemn ourselves to the one true Hell: denialism.
At the heart of that word “semantics” we find a question: Why do we do all of this? What, at the end of the day, does Satanism MEAN?
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