Empires crumble, as quickly as an aged fortress.
All that is made can be unmade.

Rainbow Warrior
BB Clifford

#EcoHorror #PsychologicalHorror #GothicHorror 

“These ant-like people, these greedy terrorists, have inflicted their violence on Mother Earth for too long. Caught together in this vicious cycle of trauma and violence, their relentless pursuit of progress, they claimed her as one of their subjects, a whole world of them believing that they were the empire, and Mother Earth was somehow inferior. Hasn’t this always been the case? Haven’t you always claimed superiority over each other and the natural world? You point to scientific knowledge that you have created, to skull measurements or skin colors, and you believe each other when you talk of a master race. You create an echo-chamber of ignorance to justify more invasions; of other people as much as Mother Earth’s resources.”
 
Nothing is more haunting than a person’s greed.
 
Rainbow Warrior
BB Clifford

​“Beneath the hands that claw through the rubble, there is anguish and filth as much as toxins and contaminants. You can see the various layers of it, all the leakage throughout the generations, and it is combustible, sparking a hatred, a writhing greed that burns beneath the skin. It doesn’t just disappear when someone dies, in fact when you bury a body or scatter their ashes, you just add to it all, rotting the soil to poison anything that grows from it. And anything that is built upon it is doomed from the beginning, just as surely as generations of loved ones are destined to perish. There’s nowhere safe, no stable footing, and so soon you can see the cracks appear, the footings buckle, and mighty empires fall as surely as another one rises to take its place.”
 
Nothing is more haunting than a person’s greed.
 
Rainbow Warrior
BB Clifford

“You claimed superiority because of the homes you built and the territories you reclaimed as your own and renamed and carved heads of your presidents into the sides of mountains, just to prove that even nature agreed. (Nature did not agree.) Humans, the ultimate imperialists, rageful as you plunder all that you can seize, and anyone or anything that tries to resist is contained in a fortress that is kept under lock and secret key while you send in your tanks and tear up their land and use other ways to concentrate their mind on what you are trying to convince them about, so they believe in your superiority, because if they don’t, you will use the camps again as all empires have before you. And still, you call your subjects the barbarians, savages, or the unevolved.

But fortresses can crumble; it was arrogant of you to believe your concrete would hold for an eternity. All that is made can be unmade, all that is created eventually deteriorates and crumbles, setting free all manner of wrath and vengeance. You’ve seen what happens with every successive empire. Mother Earth will never be subjugated.”
 
Rainbow Warrior
BB Clifford

“He asked for their eyes so they could not witness his misogyny.
And then he blamed them for it, calling them troubled and gullible fools.”
 
In my recent blog post, and the follow up, I have expressed my concerns about everything that is happening. My final comment is a worry about our blindness. Steadily, we are going to see book bans, the closure of not-for-profit organizations, censoring news outlets, and fear blinding and silencing people.
 
My hope is that this is temporary, and we will feel safe enough to open up dialogue once again.
Stay safe.
 
Malevolent Fairy: The Tale of Ania, A Troubled Soul
BB Clifford

“When it looks bad, they say, it is bad, and that badness could be contagious, so keep away. Unruly and dangerous, like an uprising that needs to be quashed.
All empires do this, especially when they start to fail. They blame their subjects for how they look, and they force them to work harder, condemning them as unclean and unsafe.”
 
As I wrote in the previous blog post, there is no greater horror than a true story. What we are witnessing is horrific but cling onto hope that we have seen cycles like this before; there is a boom-and-bust tendency about empires, and we will see change in the right direction, given time.
 
Rainbow Warrior: The Tale of Ares, The Battle-Lustful Son
BB Clifford

It seems we are slipping back, to a time of witchcraft and scapegoating.
Take note of who they try to 'other', and don't assume that you are next.
No greater horror than a true story.

"Men are rarely considered to be witches because they are not expected to caretake, to fawn, to smile, all of which I have failed to do. I come from a long line of witches who failed to appease the suburban beast and who were isolated and scapegoated, tarred and feathered, condemned as temptresses and accused of being histrionic. If the people of Mount Pelion Way could weigh me against a stack of Bibles and drown, hang, or burn me at the stake, they would."

Tangled Knot: The Tale of Eris of Suburbia
BB Clifford