You would think this were the case in our current culture. Those who can share a more oppressed experience, or those who blame their ethnicity, gender, or culture more, seem to think that there is some virtue in victimhood. The Satanist should be able to see past these pathetic machinations and accept responsibility for their own actions, not the actions of others or their ethnicity, gender or culture.
We are slowly degrading from an entitled culture to a solipsistic one. “If you don’t accept my perspective not only are you wrong, but you represent everything I hate!” I would like to think Satanists are capable of seeing through these foolish frames and yet, and yet, I see it every day.
When gay marriage was all the rage, I posed the idea that perhaps we are more than our sexuality. If that was all you were, you were a hollow shell of a human. Then transgender identity hit the press and BAM! Here we go again. Rather than being who you fuck, it’s how you want to be identified. Those of us who have actual concerns in life shrugged our shoulders and moved on, not caring what you believe yourself to be or who you prefer to fuck, and yet the rage of solipsistic pantiwaistism continued. If you don’t change your social media profile photo, make some generic forgettable post or rage at some other social media thrall who isn’t yelling as loud as you are, than you are the problem!
Now another, more sinister trend is emerging… the true victim! While everyone is raising their hands as high as they can yelling, ‘Me too! I was victimized too!” I can’t help but ask myself, to what end? Did this experience define you? Are you the entirety of a single or series of abusive moment(s)? Is that all there is to who you are? It’s one thing to share an experience in the hopes that bringing that moment to light will somehow right a wrong or prevent it from happening to another—but to use it as a twisted good guy badge, to call out to the world, championing the idea that through this experience you deserve attention or affection or a passing thought, well… “I don’t think so, Tim.”
Experiences we suffer through are stepping stones. They do not define us, but rather inform who we become through the way we processed or manage them. If we allow a moment to hold dominion over our lives we are a slave to that moment, forever wallowing in it’s shadow. You cannot be a positive force in your own life if you are at its mercy. You cannot be an effective Satanist if you are incapable of moving through your own pain. We command our lives, we are not victims of life. We seek help when we deem it necessary in order to work through the pain, we do not hold onto it, allowing it dominion over us. And we certainly don’t use it as a torch to draw in other victims or self loathers like so many parasitic insects to come feed off of our projected pity.
You are not defined by what you have experienced, you define yourself by how you process and move past your experiences.
Hail Satan!