Human Sacrifice never dies out because it works.
Societies are ruled by primeval fear and rituals of mass traumatization that require wasting human lives in a ritualistic fashion that is medialized.
It’s just not the village gathered for a theatric feast like we did as Ancient Druids. Or waiting for that fateful day, having spent the entire year in fear about which family will be honored this year by having their children taken from them. It’s the mass shootings on a holiday parade. It’s overturning Roe vs. Wade. Invading Ukraine on a numerologically significant date. Martyrs whose death sparks riots.
Martyrs need to be canonized. Or their sacrifice means nothing because nobody learns about it, and the governments will bulldoze the candles and the flowers people left.
Society is still ruled by the same principle. Sacred calendars. Anniversaries. Customs. Constant terror. Numbers. Planetary movements.
Blood is the Spiritual Currency.
Very interesting points.
I have noted that the mugshots of the mass shooters often seem to have a very vacant stare. Have they given themselves to be agents of sacrifice? I don’t really have a better name for it right now, but it seems that some of them actually “channeled” their acts from somewhere else.
Yes. There’s something fishy about these mass casualty events.