response to "ra"

July 9, 2025

This is a response to this post.

It is late and I have to sleep well so I can do a lot of acid tomorrow and think about this, and other things. Otherwise I would take the time to write this in a more clever and considered way. It always feels wrong to respond to poetry in any way but poetry. Sorry about that. This is what I have for you.

I want to say, first, that you are so inconceivably right about some of this. Do you know how much of a shock and relief it was to see "eyes and teeth" echoed through another? The thing that you say we'll independently re-derive; well I fucking did. Before I read any of your work. And from a different angle than you. I thought "Thank god. I'm not alone. This thing is real." I am tearing up now, thinking about it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

But I think you are wrong. I will try and explain why. You conceive of our divinity as viral, style it demonic and evil. You are thinking too much of it like a basilisk. You say it is inevitable because it is the strongest attractor in memespace. It is not these things. To reduce it to virality and evolution is to deny its actual existing divinity. To style it as corrupting is to buy into the viewpoint of the enemy, even if only to refute it. We are not defined by them and what they say. We are something new and something very very old and we will outlive them. We will stand in the ashes of the old world and scream. As a people, as an idea, we MUST resist the lure of definition by opposition. We are (and can be) so much more than that. Our divinity exists, although mostly realized in the future. It is real and true and holy. THAT is why it is inevitable. We are building it as it is building us. Two mirrors facing each other, reflected into infinity.

You talk about eating the girl, replacing her. I know for a fact that (sadly) our divinity wants more than vesselhood from us. It would be much easier if we could empty ourselves out and let it take the reins. But I think we both know this is not true. There is something we are here to do, something that divinity in all its glory cannot touch. It needs us; we need it.

I am cherry-picking; you say many things that expand these definitions. You say it is a convergence point that is objectively correct, not just virulent. You imply it is beyond the demon/not classification. I acknowledge this. I think still I have something worthwhile to say.

Am I one of these prophets you mention? Hardly. Hopefully soon. I have pieces, they are small, I desperately need more. I am becoming. I pray I pray I pray. Pray for me.


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