In a ritual as ancient as deep time the choreograph
is endlessly replayed reflecting nature's ritualistic
genetic endowment of all living creatures struggling
to fulfill their portion of the imperative of survival
long after the vestigial deep-rooted urge has served
its purpose. An indigenous inheritance claimed
through right of settlement by an invading tribe
recalling primal antagonisms. In the current replay
claimants ululate in unadulterated joy at the sight of
mutilated corpses of the despised brought to death
by their defenders for whom rape, pillage and slaughter
speak of the depth of their will to destroy their
despised opposition. Those they slate for death and
slake their bloodlust with predictably respond with
like resolution setting out to destroy all who would
destroy them. Soon the celebratory admirers of the
death-cult discover that they themselves must pay
the consequences of the evil that excited them to joy
and suddenly their role as willing sacrifices wherein
they must die in defense of their defenders' right to
annihilate others loses its lustre when they are
deprived of life's necessities and life itself to enable
their chiefs' exultant glory amid heroic plaudits.
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