David
David (also Davidum, and Dawood) symbolizes and embodies all the horrific techniques that rulers have imposed on peoples over the last 3,000 years.
The power of David is based on ignorance and fear: namely, maintaining its underlings in a constant status of ignorance, and placing them in a permanent stage of fear.
Ignorance about astronomy, matter, logic, and reason.
And fear, fear of fantastic and imagined monsters and events.
In order to spread and maintain ignorance and fear into the population, religion, weapons, and money were skillfully used by David to delude and to punish, and “religionism”, militarism, and capitalism are still utilized by modern oppressors to subdue citizens and deprive of any form of equality and of dignity.
Modern oppressors comprise bishops, generals, and bankers (B-G-B)
Bishops use “religionism”, namely the worship of religion itself, for the purpose of embedding citizens in a cloud of ignorance and confusion regarding concepts/non-concepts, matter/non-matter, and issues that are socially completely irrelevant and logically absurdly contradictory.
Generals use militarism, namely the worship of weaponry and troops, recruited by generating false fears following massive propaganda campaign of misinformation and deceit against their own population. Fear of foreign enemies, fear of infiltrators, fear of terrorism, fear of fear.
Bankers use artificially created shortages, of money, of credit, and of goods, like food, commodities, and utilities, in order to manipulate prices and interest rates, making loans expensive and customer deposits cheap.
David was first and foremost a priest, using religionism to put together a ragtag army. Then he used this army to put down all local tribal rebellions. Then he used looted money to create a trade monopoly within the country, and later, like all capitalistic establishments, expanding the religionist-militaristic empire abroad when the local markets did not satisfy his expanding and frivolous greed.
So David first made himself into a living super-god (the messenger of Yaveh), then into a generalissimo military super-king (over all the tribes of the region), and then into a super-banker businessman (issuing currency and expanding foreign trade).
A triangle of false legitimacy, where morbid bishops legitimize crappy generals, and crappy generals wage foreign wars on behalf of greedy bankers, and greedy bankers build oversized temples for morbid bishops.
A tautology of vice and corruption, all at the expense of the working citizens, turned into toady slaves under the power of the lackeys (lawyers and accountants, insurance representatives and real estate agents, etc.) of the triumphant elitist class of bishops-general-bankers (B-G-B).
David knew this game very well, and he wrote books about it, because he was the first to master the power of the written word. He even made-up the popular fantasy (indeed, oddly enough, still quite popular today) that the “bible” he wrote was written by some gods.
Around year 1000 BC David founded the so-called United Kingdom of David on territory taken from the Philistines. His “reign” lasted 40 years, and the borders of his new empire stretched far beyond the territory of the Philistines that his troops occupied.
His roving descendants ruled that land for 400 years, until Nebuchadrezzar destroyed the self-proclaimed capital, “Jerusalem”, and scattered the troops and the settlers that had occupied the Philistine land for so long.
David’s militaristic approach coincides with the fact that the term “Davidum” served as a title for a military marshal. David’s original name was Elhanan, but he became known to the world by his title as military leader.
Like Trotsky later, David combined alleged adherence to loose principles with flexible opportunism and practical political action, mixing propagandistic shrewdness with public drama. He had been exiled from the court of Saul, and, as an outlaw without legal protection, his physical safety depended on his use of his wits.
Falsely but astutely implying that he was still on a mission for Saul, he obtained with stealth the sword of Goliath from the priest Ahimelech, whose community was quite logically later slaughtered by Saul for aiding David.
From the hiding cave of Adullam, David launched his political movement, gathering discontented refugees and common outlaws like himself, and he made himself chieftain over them. The band grew to some 400 to 600 men, and David became a sort of Robin Hood. In doing so, roaming and raiding the country, David revealed thus a keen sense of militarism.
When the wealthy herdsman Nabal refused to host David and his gang, David killed Nabal (preposterously postulating that a “god” had killed Nabal in an act of “divine” vengeance) and quickly turned Nabal’s wife Abigail, now quite a sad widow, into his own wife, in the name of “god”. In doing so, slaughtering and raping in the name of “god”, David revealed also a keen sense of religionism.
While away from his hideaway Ziklag, the Amalekites had taken back the property that David had previously stolen and robbed from them and from other tribes. Although the Amalekites action was logically justified, David claimed to be outraged, and promptly attacked the Amalekites in force, stripped them again of their property, and took lots of new loot in addition. In doing so, stealing and coercing in order to acquire property and wealth, David revealed an advanced sense of capitalism.
Having accumulated the typical power of Bishops, Generals, and Bankers in one hand, David had now considerable might, and used it to subdue the tribes that surrounded him. With a very low sense of dignity, he could bear hardships, setbacks, and even insults for the sake of long-term gains, and he trained himself to patience and also to humiliation in order to achieve his program of unification.
Like all kings and other fascist leaders after him, cynically he dramatized his religious “belief” in the “sacredness” of a royal person, and claimed to be that person in the name of “god”. So from Hebron he established his royal rule of north and south, and eliminated the remaining Philistines “from Geba to Gezer”.
In a true cult of personality, David then proclaimed that Jerusalem was going to be “The City of David”, and his soldiers forced the citizens of Jerusalem to build numerous palaces and temples for “king” David, and David filled the new buildings with his numerous wives and concubines.
But David had understood that, as an evident sign of hypocritical religionism, he had to make Jerusalem also a symbol of religious significance as well, in order to justify in the eyes of the ignorant and superstitious people that he was the ruler “chosen by the gods”. So David brought the “ark” (an old voodoo symbol from the nomadic era, claimed to give “sacred” powers) to Jerusalem, and he himself now, impersonating a high-priest, offered sacrifices, led the “sacred” dances, and “blessed” the people. He was among the first ones, but all B-G-B leaders after him have done the same type of theatrical farce.
David skillfully utilized “spirituality” in the establishment of the cult of Jerusalem as a “sacred” city, the house of “god”. David himself took the time to write “holy” psalms and hymns used to glorify the city, the bishops, the temple, and, of course, himself. David made very practical and cynical political use of the “ark” and of the necromantic, and financially enriching, worship connected with it, linking his political, religionist, military, and business-oriented skills in one concoction of raw power and crude exploitation.
David, true to his dictatorial nature, forced people to “believe”, under threat of violence, as an act of pure “faith”, without any hint of rationality, that some kind of supernatural being, like a “god”, had made a “covenant” with him, David. The fable David told his credulous followers was that in his person of David, as a semi-godly “king”, a true “god” acted to mediate power and “holy blessings” to fulfill the destiny of the people of Jerusalem (stretched to include neighboring towns and other occupied territories).
David was keen and eager to point-out that the contractual “covenant” with the “gods” included all of David’s royal heirs- to-come, all the way until “god’s” promise to the people was “realized” (and David, smartly so, never included in this skillfully concocted plot what that “realization” would have meant, leaving the contract as an open-ended deal in his favor, which would make it totally void even as a pure fantasy).
Like all “kings” after him, David also emphasized that all his acts and decision had been legitimized as having been subjected to, or having been dictated by, the judgment of “the gods”. As always, in a comic dance of absurdities, bishops’ religionism justifies generals’ militarism, and militarism sanctions bankers’ capitalism, which legitimizes religionism. David knew very well how to manipulate, how to kill, and how to defraud, as he also knew how to write, and the written word gave him and his successors eternal power over the ignorant masses of misled worshippers who “believe” the word of “god”. The perfect fraud.
After having unified the land, overcome the Philistines, established a political and religious capital, and accumulated immense fortunes for himself and for his enormous harem and children thereof, David proceeded to build and empire, as mandated by rules of capitalism, when the markets you already control are about to be exhausted.
So like Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the USA Empire so many years later, under bishops’ auspices, and financed by bankers, brutal generals start conquering and subjugating foreign territories claiming a compelling need for “nation-building”. Edom, Moab, Jordan, Syria, Damascus, Euphrates, Aqaba, etc. What had been traditionally just a bridge between empires had been turned into a wealthy religious militarized empire by David’s capitalist expansion, religionist manipulation, and militarist brutality.
But in his “family-life”, David failed. David’s innumerable wives were mostly completely alien to one another, as they came from so many different clans and regions. Consequently all his children lacked the support of established social patterns, patterns that normally would have evolved within a clan, and that would have helped to provide precedents for the resolution of internecine conflicts.
Here lies David, the brutal but clownish “king”, the “anointed”, the “messiah”, the “vice-regent of god”, the “fulfillment of the promise of god to Abraham (Abraham was actually the Hindu-god Brahma)”, the David who suffered from priapism, who had too many kids, and whose empire ended eventually in a Solomonic nothing.
But what about the “son of David”? Right… and think again…
Napoleon Bonaparte vanished, and Adolf Hitler is dust, but with chiromantic cabala, and trivial superstition the ugly light of the Empire of David is still projecting its dark shadow over today’s dying empires replete with bishops, generals, and bankers, all now quite desperate in their last struggle to survive the inexorable progress of their logical and necessary demise.
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