PACTS WITH THE DEVIL

Faustus, Lockdown, and Modern Man

I have threatened to go on about ideas before. Well, here we are.

In this two parter I will explore some of the explanatory power of myth.

We think of myth as something to do with the past, but myths are created all the time. The reason myth persists is because its power to explain the world appeals to a deeply personal set of instincts and feelings and desires.

In this first part I go on about the pact with the Devil as imagined in the Faust myth. After going on about the nature of the modern self, I mention Marlowe, Goethe and the regrettable Thomas Mann.

In the second part I will return to the covid era and argue that the same diabolical appeal of the Devil’s bargain explains the support of lockdowns and “vaccines”, which fostered so much hate in the service of evil.