Monday, February 7, 2011

letter from the bad guy

Remember that creative project I mentioned a few weeks ago? Well here's the letter that goes along with the cage sculpture we made. It's modeled after the screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis. 

My dearest Jr. Deceiver,

I must congratulate you on your continued diligence to this most important war of disconnection. You have done a wonderful job so far in keeping people at odds with each other and drawing them into our trap. Although the Enemy has undoubtedly more strength then we, I fee l our race to draw people apart is on a steady increase.

Your installation of the Jantelov (a law in Norway) has done miraculous wonders for our side. It has caused a wave of generational dysfunction, convincing the men and women of Norway that they are of little or no value to the world. It has taken form like an invisible plague, infesting their minds so deeply. We now have parents teaching their children for us, that the best value is to keep quiet, cut off all ideas of self worth and stay as a ghost in the background. These beliefs are a great tool in our pursuit for separation. The humans think they have nothing to offer and therefore no reason to contribute and connect. Continue to press into this most ingenious virus. Rot their minds with voices of doubt, too busy to hear the Truth of the unmatchable worth He has given each one of them, which we only have the power to twist.

The business of living, lucky for us, has become just that: busy. So often you find the creatures running this way and that. Good! Loneliness can so often be found in this sort. Constantly scurrying to meet eternal deadlines they are caught up in their own abilities; making it, doing it, surviving on their own. Keep them believing weakness is the sin, that they themselves are powerful, and that they don’t need anyone else. And be sure to bring up doubt when He plants seeds of His strength and power. It’s most favorable for our side if we can just keep them too busy to notice His greatness at all! Ah yes, what great victory we can have!

When they do have a bit of what they call ‘free time’ make sure you emphasize the toll of their busy week and their need to be alone. But take care; while an empty head can be filled with trash, it also leaves room for our Enemy to speak and be heard. Fortunately for us, you need only to distract them with a single one of the million things they have filled their lives with: a trashy magazine, the World Wide Web, or the television where they will sit for hours, goggling at “reality”. This is a great opportunity to send in comparison and bathe the little vermin in self-pity driving them into further isolation. Point out how she doesn’t have golden locks like hers, how his six pack refers more to a bag of roles then chiseled abs and if they only worked harder and had more money, they could be just like those people.

But if on the other had He reminds them of their innate need to connect with a real person, which He has the power to do above anything we may prevent, and they manage to squeak in a dinner date or weekend hangout with friends, I suggest the application of these simple ploys to keep their mind fixated on alone-ness. For one, you can fill their mind with a frenzy of worries. Along with comparison as mentioned above, insecurity is a great friend of ours.  You can highlight the stupid thing they said, or the fact that they picked a horrible shirt to wear that makes them look fat and oh my what their friends must me thinking about them. Yes, they really are the small and pathetic. Or on the contrary, you can stroke their pride. Point out the nasty state of that mans teeth, the horrible fashion of that girl who thinks she’s so cool and the lowly furnishings of a shaggy house containing even more pitiful conversation. Use their verbal skills to cut into friends with sarcasm and arrogant remarks. In this way, you can knock out two birds with one stone. You have the ability to make your subject believe he deserves far higher quality friends than this and that he’s better off alone. His spiteful words can in turn reinforce his targets own insecurity: he really is as bad or worse then he thought.

However the path is fashioned, whether by too much noise or not enough, once you massage the pain of living and coax them into the cage, make sure to point out the comforts of being alone. Although a portion of them will inevitably be longing for further contact and relationship, strike on past hurts like a knife into warm butter. Such wounds remind the being that even though they feel disconnected, being alone is much safer then risking further injury and deeper scares. Not only do they avoid injury, they are liberated from the limitations they believe others put on them. You can then have the sheep believing the trap is a morphed nest of freedom: free from disappointment, free from complying with others demands, and free from meeting others needs. Note that one doesn’t have to appear alone, as a loner would, to feel alone. The social butterfly can feel the sting of loneliness just the same amidst a room full of her busy friends. Be attuned to the individuals state of mind more then their physical alone-ness.

Once these are clearly established, your job of enforcing what has become in their mind, a desirable comfy habit, is all the easier. The sex drive, most favorably exhibited in the one night stand, is one of my favorite cycles! Conditions have already been arranged in our favor: a world flooded with sexuality, ‘everybody’s doing it’, and, especially in the younger ones, an animal-like drive to pursue pleasure. Encounters such as these let the pitiful human think they are connecting with another on a ‘deeper’ level when in reality it is a not even a hint of what their Father has planned for them. But if you can keep them in the dark and catch their souls when they once again become weak with insecurity and longing for something more, you can convince them next time, always next time, it will be enough.

Oh, how easy our work has become! They can practically do it themselves! I can’t for the life of me understand the un-dieing love our Enemy has for His beings, but keep in mind He has wired them to discover it if they choose to open the door. This is why our work is so important. To the untrained human eye, our Enemy is hard to see, so we must put weight on the importance of physicality. Being alone, feeling alone, that’s where we want them, where they are most vulnerable and weak. From the very beginning He designed them to be in relationship with Himself and others, so we must do our best to taint, mutilate, and abolish all possibility of such relationships. If we do our work wisely, and install the right conditions, it can breed and fester like black mold on the human heart. And no one wants to hang out with smelly black mold. So keep up the good work!

Yours truly,
Master Deceiver

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