“Poetry after Auschwitz”, exclaimed critical theorist Theodor Adorno, “would be absolutely barbaric”. Thinking about this particular quote you have to wonder, was Adorno referring to “Auschwitz” as being as mass crucifixion? Because if we look at the ancient biblical scriptures, we see how Jesus (assumed to be a jew) was crucified in the Roman Empire of spreading “heresy” by Pontius Pilate, who washed his hands, as a symbol of his disastification with his own deeds, and (allegedly) converted to Christianity soon after, in which was culiminated in Emperor Constantine officially declaring Rome to be a “Christian Society”. Much like the French Revolution and/or Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, this marked a turning point in history where the old ways of doing things were no longer tolerated, and a new society had to be built, to use a metaphor, from the “ground up”. Gone were the pagan idols of old to be replaced by a sort-of “monotheism” surrounding Jesus Christ and his 12 disciples, some of which and their associates had written gospels preaching his word, two of which namely, Mark, who sought to convert the Jews, and John, for the gentiles.
One of these disciples was Saul, who began as pagan jew who went around killing Christians for sport only to hear God’s voice who blinded him and forced him to change his ways and spread the word of Jesus. Back to Mark and John, the latter’s gospel was much more “worldly” than Mark’s. Mark only wanted the insular Jews to hear the word of God, whereas John’s gospel, likely authored by Paul, was to convert “the rest of us”. This strange dichotomy posits a question on whether the non-Pauline gospels were strictly a platform for the Jews, as Jesus turned the conditional religion of the Jews into a worldly disposition. One only has to look at how Protestant Christianity works almost in tandem with Jewish scripture, where only “chosen” people are allowed access into heaven. Jesus effectively deterritorialized Christianity for those who were not Jews but to all people.
Returning to Adorno, if Jews saw the Holocaust (and Auschwitz by extension) as their own personal “crucifixion”, why would they be opposed to utterances of mere lyric poetry? Well, there has to be some kind of reasoning behind this. Since most poetry describes our world as being a world of beauty and wonder, and that God (by account of the Jews) would never think that a world so entranced by beauty and aesthetic pleasure, would culiminate in something so ardous and horrific, the very depersonalization of their kind, It would stand to reason that after such an event the world could never be viewed in such rosy spectacles. Because it stands to reason that if the world was so beautiful, such horrors would never be found.
On our end, the Gentiles, however, the dominance of every facet of life by these people spreading ruin among us, whether they be Machiavellian humanitarians like George Soros, or the the grotesque pandering of minorities, from sexual to racial by means of capital accumulation at the detriment of whites by one Larry Fink, to pit Gentile against Gentile (many companies have sought out that multiracial workplaces are a good way to reduce solidarity among co-workers, in lieu of unions and other labor organizations. Not only turning workplaces into war zones, since the best way to control a population is to spread dissent among its inferiors, where eventually, as phenomenological thinker Gabriel Marcel pointed out, while simultaneously reducing man's life from a life of bountiful pleasures, such as a wife and a child and a comfortable home, to divorce, a one bedroom apartment, a pet instead of a child to eventual homelessness as long as his boss, not to mention his ex-wife, gets a sizeable portion of his last penny's worth while he dies from an overdose or hunger or sickness or all three at the same time, in addition to creating a hostile work environment, keeps the Gentiles eternally divided.
In addition to these golems exist among the them a mix of WASP shabbos (as noted previously being servants of the Old Testament in lieu of their eschatological and christological doctrines) along with the self-chosen Israeli peoples themselves in various secret societies, it seems poetry (and by extension, music and other forms of art) is a gateway to bring about Year Zero again. Because it looks like the trash needs taken out, and the garbage is full.(*)
J./Adolf Stalin
(*)(its mainly to replace old trash with new valuables. as much as Adorno pisses and moans about consumer culture, the only reason he does so is that he just thinks his particular brand is more valuable)
(amended 9/25/22)