Glad To See Progressives Adopt My ‘The Tiniest Flaw Renders You Irredeemably Evil’ Ethos

by The Serpent

Garden of Eden, November 24 – The removal of the Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City’s City Hall filled me with a sense of accomplishment I haven’t felt in a long, long time. It resonated with me in a way that other events, even more “momentous” ones, have failed to do. I guess that’s because the characterization of a person as absolutely unworthy of admiration because of a single noticeable failing, and using that failing to define him, despite myriad grand achievements and positive traits, and devoid of historical context, just speaks to me, echoing in a profound fashion my argument to humanity that the one tree of which they may not partake must become the obsessive focus of their energies, to the exclusion of all the benefits they can accrue in the pursuit of other endeavors.

You remember the scene: I enticed the woman into taking the fruit of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, by imputing to God lack of trust in their capacity to handle that knowledge. I tempted her to view that fruit with such desire that she disregarded the countless other kinds of amazing, delicious fruit, and ate some. The focus on that limitation made her, the mother of all humanity, willing to defy a directive from the Creator Himself, bestower of all goodness, because now she saw Him as a stingy, suspicious lord. Mission accomplished!

It’s a recurring theme: the Talmudic sages link my defining scene with the character of Haman, whose focus on the one old Jew who refused to bow, when everyone else displayed the mandated obeisance, led to the grand vizier’s downfall, as it rendered him blind to the personal political repercussions of his ego-driven obsession.

Now fast forward into history, specifically into the early twenty-first century. Thomas Jefferson, polymath and author of the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson, rhetorical genius and astute political theorist; Thomas Jefferson, scholar and diplomat – but he owned slaves at a time when lots of people owned slaves. Worst of all, he was WHITE, an unforgivable offense. Without my all-or-nothing moral formulation, Jefferson’s statue is still up at City Hall.

I get a special sense of gratification from this as well when I observe that the true motive behind my provocateuring also animates the “progressive” activists who wield political sensitivity and values as weapons: it’s really all about power, not the values themselves, which they seize and discard as the situation requires. You will be like God!

Mission accomplished.

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