A John the Baptist in these times

This new-times John would be a solicitator of the far, geographical reaches, or would have to be in such an individual, mental wilderness of discipline to be idiosyncratic, if not an out-right oddity, in the surrounding community.

He COULD blog from the far, geographical reaches. Yet, I think it was his interactive presence, combined with his unapologetic to near-heretical words that made him the legend and metaphor he has become. The trappings of the fabricated would not be part of his make up, figuretively and literally. Only that which is organic to him or the antural world would be his tools, signs, and symbols of his verbal and physical technologies.

He would be as estranged from the cultures and societies of this world, even more than he was of the mandarin orthodoxy of the pharisees and sadduccees. Becuase the cultures of today rerpesent themselves as populist expression and not the exclusive dominion of the select few as the latter groups were. These present day populist cultures are an idolatry of self-seeking, narcism. The end-game of feeling good as an entitled indulgence is the justification for the gluttonous and degrading means of aspiration to those ends.

The mantra of enchantment in the common speech that mindlessly repeats, uncritically, the false suppositions of "nice" and "good" which circumspect thinking and circumscribe behavior has been the Judas goat of our own cultural consensus. Like a dog or kitten chasing its own tale, or as one asking the question of the chicken or the egg being the prime initiator, the human mind and emotions have become trapped in this communal, feel-good, limitational existence. The result is seen as the natural order, when in fact it is the most contrived orders of rhetorical expedience and opportunism, based on a dissembling bias of fait accompli rather than an anlysis of the longer term consequences of that short-term, feel-good, satiation.

John the Baptist would abstain from the conveniences, gluttonies, and satiations that diminished his cognitive capacites, and effectual abilities. He woud disdain the aesthetics which placed externals as substitutes, surrogates, compensatory instrumentalities for the integrity of his providence, created freedom. There would be no worthy alternative for his freedom. The powers and riches of the world would not be the price for him to forsake his own organic prerogative, option to be a free person. A person unbeholding to any involuntary, tempting, or seductive degradation of his senses towards an addiction of tangible and intangible substances that make him dependent physicall,intellectually, and emotionally on things and entities beyond his own native capacities of self-reliance and self-dependence.

This John the Baptist would be an enemy of the state of being which emotionally regresses people to junkies of uncontrolled indulgence. Having succumbed to this uncontrolled indulgence see themselves as victim of some external agency or agents, rather than face their own culpability, since it would be too much of a discomfort and a disturbance to the self-anesthetizing they have done to themselves intellectually to be able to conceive beyond a pursuit of happiness which has no justification beyond a populist mimicry.

This John the Baptist would be the odd-person outside the realm of the accepted mood and consensus of enablement and co-dependence of the social illusion.