IDIOT STICK by Jeffery Lewis
ELFIS JOURNAL OF POSSIBLE PARADIGMS, Issue 3, Summer '95
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In ancient Israel God’s Will was established by “lot,” by a “praying mantis,” a prophetic priesthood using lots to determine “God’s Will.” This choice of rule established by divination became the dominant mode in the priesthood of Samuel, who used it to conquer Saul and establish a King, David, who was obedient to the Will of the Lord. Strieber’s desire for a “stray vehicle,” or form of consciousness places him outside that rule. Because he is outside the rule of the Church he encounters “death,” the single purpose of which is to drive him back into the fold, or the “flock.” What then is the “lot” of such a person who chooses to disobey the Will of the Law? The lot of Strieber and his sisters, and of others who try to establish an individual divine will is to meet death on the motorcycle. What is this motorcycle of repetition compulsion, of the programmed circuitry of a psalm? It’s the fireball, the fireball the “Lord” visited upon Sodom and Gomorrah, from which only Lot escaped, and it is the fireball to come because the cycles of the prophecies are automatic, mechanical, happen again and again.
The fireball, the angel of death, the praying mantis on the motorcycle of the prophesied apocalypse drives Strieber back inside the house, the Great Mother’s house, the house of Mother Church.
Inside, his mother and father are watching television, the Ed Sullivan Show, waiting for the appearance of “Senor Wences.” That word “Wences” is mighty close to the Spanish word “vencer,” which means “to conquer.” In other words the parents, both Catholics, are sitting in the church waiting for the appearances of the Conqueror, the one who will return to conquer the earth, to bring the Kingdom of the Father here to “tame” everyone. The “son” the parents, Strieber’s parents, desire, is the opposite of the wild blue mustang of a divinely creative sexual will that Strieber, himself, at twelve years old, desired. However, Strieber’s encounter with the programming of death for the rebellious through the reality of the behavioral control by praying mantis has driven him back into the flock of the meek who wait patiently for God to return to them from outer space.
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