"Lucifer"

I finally, finally did something I wasn’t capable of before– nail down RH’s eyes (sort of?). I wrotein herehow I lack understanding about this white snake demon, hence I’ve been lacking ability in depicting his eyes.

I want to sieze this opportunity to expand upon that post, to iterate the perceived problem of reichblr artists; but first, plz take a look at this sculpture of Lucifer. In the 1840s, The Catholic Church commissioned sculptor Guillaume Geefs to make Lucifer. When the piece was completed, the Church became furious towards the artist– Lucifer is too beautiful. Church took it down St. Paul’s Cathedral, for the clergy found it very unacceptable.

The Geefs brothers were ordered to make the sculpture again. They reflected on the subject matter a long time, and tried very hard, then made a second rendition. Still too beautiful for the Church’s liking.

This is the behavior of true artists. They didn’t necessarily defy their employer just for the sake of being artists, they tried to understand what this subject matter is at its heart- the origin of Lucifer’s pride, his greatest evil, in order to convey the concept in sculpture with artistic honesty and integrity: namely, the ultimate beauty, then the pride therein, then its natural temptation, and finally, the deepest theological foundation of the Church– the Original sin.

This is the mythical dillemma how what was once closest to God could possibly be the most evil. Lucifer is supposed to be beautiful, and this beauty is supposed to be uncomfortable and unsettling, as if something very dark is about to burst through. I couldn’t really draw RH, but there’s a lot of meaning in drawing RH with white snakes, mythical, unsettling, supernaturally evil snakes.

By repudiating the artist- LUCIFER IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE BEAUTIFUL!! YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TALENT!! YOU ARE LITERALLY MAKING LUCIFER FANART!! The Catholic Church revealed its moral weakness and intellectual dishonesty. You don’t need to look far from this religion to find brain-dead parents who want governments to ban video games.

Some of you have noticed, I like to draw Werhmacht generals with flowers, and it is for a reason– I never bothered to explain those reasons, because I draw stuff for my own self. I don’t really have a purpose drawing, political or otherwise (I couldn’t care less), nor ideologies that I want to spread.

I drew Paulus with Lilly in the Valley, for a friend historian explained to me why it is fitting- Lilly in the Valley traditionally symbolizes purity in a toxic environment, but its flowers are very poisonous themselves. Paulus denounced Nazism on the Nuremburg trials, and helped convicted his former murderous colleagues, but it was very hard to tell where his true moral resided; was it in exchange for Soviet leniency, or to cut all ties from his former roots the quiet and brutal way, because he was betrayed in Stalingrad?

Walter Model always appears with red Poppy. In my eyes, he was intoxicated with the Nazi ideology. Unlike the political ass-kissers who grabbed the Nazi power but did not want to bleed the blood, he wasn’t out for his own benefits– he plunged himself into the worst battlefields. Once Model became “sober from the opioids”, he got so horridly disillusioned that he killed himself.

Black lilly Erich von Manstein criticized Hitler whenever and wherever he wanted, but did absolutely nothing to undermine Hitler’s power. Lilly flower only in name, but blatantly impure, Manstein was intelligent in his total inaction. He managed to get a lighter punishment in Nuremburg by positing “Wehrmacht did nothing right, but did nothing wrong, technically speaking”. Perhaps not so paradoxically, von Manstein helped created NATO that protects Europe to this day.

If I really want to look at myself to see something wrong, I think the issue is that I am a bad artist. I used a lot of words above to “explain” the symbolic and metaphorical aspects of my own work, as if they are Dante’s Inferno or Hiëronymus Bosch’s panels. Come on, they are NOT THAT GOOD, it is so absurd, I am just an idiot on the internet. I think I will go back to my hole, be comfortable, and draw stuff. I’ll draw brainrots. I love brainrots.

Maybe we should go simpler- nobody accused Dante of depicting the 14 century Florentine scoundrels with masterful Renaissance verses “because Dante Aghilieri of the Divine Comedy is glorifying bad people (somehow)”.

Or maybe even simpler, to quote Ecku indirectly from an internet friend- “I draw Rommel, he’s a soldier, a tragic soldier happened to be embroiled in a complicated era, nothing but a soldier yet that is exactly everything. For me, it is very strange of internet people to dote on mass murderers in video games, that actually require you to suspend fictional disbelief in order to enjoy killing, but have very little sensitivity for a simple German soldier, whose only Original Sin is that he is German and that is WWII.”

Do bear in mind, the history books were written not by Truth, but by the victors of wars, who got to pick and choose the definition of all sorts of value judgment in the latter half of 20th century in order to justify the current societal institutions (for example, representational democracy, solipsistic corporatism replacing feudalism)– much the same way the Lucifer problem was a big deal for the Church in the 1800s, the arbitor of religious morals and patriarchal orders. Retconning historical facts into narratives to fit mainstream world view the victors constructed is simply common practice.

Indeed, Lucifer is inherently evil, and bad things are objectively bad, still, it is an excercize in futility to pick out the absolutely immaculately virtuous side in the history just to occupy a moral high ground, and in such futility, a new Utopian totalitarianism of self-censorship would be upon us, wherein neither good people nor bad ones harbour any self-awareness— everything, including art, is hijacked by hyper-moralization, self-flagellatory empathy, and vain competition in victimhood.

Just let reichblr artists do their thing, they won’t be the culprit of wwiii, don’t you worry. As to if and how I condemn the neo N@zis, the distinction, practical criteria, and potential actions, please refer back to this post.

epilogue-

I spent all these times writing this for people whom I respect– namely, people who hate reichblr with vengeance, with sincerity. If what drives you to our opposition is not hatred, but laziness and greed, because hating reichblr is literally the easiest way to score some “look I’m such a good person” points, I am very disappointed in you, and you’re not worth the electricity for my computer.