REPS
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Under the system of taxation, individuals were charged what it cost to produce a product. Then, on top of this, a tax was added. So, if ever there was a quantity or quality that guaranteed the stability of money (gold, labor, etc); tax went above and beyond this, by design. This is to say, taxation could only be backed by a person’s death.
The founders of the old system knew this when they specified that taxation should only be used to raise an army. Because, in order to kill, one must be dead already. Otherwise, to kill another is to kill oneself… or to know what it would be like to be killed. And this knowledge of death is equivalent to death itself. Or, rather, it is only through one’s own death that one might truly gain such knowledge.
Though, surely, people in the old system were animate. For, it might even be said that they worked like zombies….
Like zombies, Capitalists were buried (by work and by dept) until they had given up hope of ever seeing the light of day again. Then, they were dug out. As such their bodies were alive. But their will was dead. And, without a will of their own, they would stand immobile all day unless told what to do by their masters (those who buried them, in the first place).
Only within a system of taxation does a need for representation arise. For, how can any person presume to represent another? How can they, that is, except that the person being represented cannot represent himself. Specifically, the person being represented must already be dead (as has been suggested).
GLORY
Whereupon, a soldier is dead who does fight to his death. Thereupon, an army of soldiers do fight. But, for this, they should be mad (for that is how people will be who would be dead). Poor souls! And thereby, most people die long before their bodies do.
Glory was dead like that. And he was mad. And he was ready to fight. And for these reasons he made a good Rep.
Not at first, to be sure. But after Glory came to the attention of The Joint, he became a good Rep. He was oppressed. He suppressed. He was repressed. He became depressed. And then, he was so easily impressed!
Glory looked up to aggressive people like any animal will who has been domesticated. And, like a dog, Glory had been…
Fixed: Glory’s father kicked him out of the house at 19 because Daddy wanted to have sex with Mommy 24-7 without being bothered by Glory. So he was cut off from the only woman he could ever love. And he became homeless.
Broken: On the streets, Glory would ask people for help. But soon, he realized this didn’t pay very well. And so, he found a scam.
Taken in: Glory would buy water for a nickel a bottle and then sell it for a dollar. All the while, he was looking for any old queer who might support him… or a job. Though, either way, he had no intention of ever putting out.
Set up: In jail, Glory was sodomized. When he was released, he went looking for girls to bugger. Using his metaphorical whip, he could tame any of them. He’d scratch their tummy with it. Then he’d hit them over the head with it. And so, unsure of what to expect, they would back up and roll over when he pulled it out.
(Glory often imagined what the inside of his own hole was like. He contemplated this as he inserted things there. He felt dirty like that. And, he liked feeling this way).
Put down: Being with girls would always make Glory feel like less of a man. Women seemed to be laughing at him. They’d call him names (Homo). And this turned him on! Then, ashamed of his feelings, he’d reassert his masculinity (sometimes with a little too much bravado).
Domesticated: And in this way, Glory became a man like those he met in prison. True, sometimes he would still purr like a pussycat (though he meant to growl like a lion). But more often, he would snap… when he might have, otherwise, been provided for.
Glory regressed: Wasn’t he a child when he first realized that all girls have their manhood taken from them this way? Yes! That’s why he felt sick to his stomach when he looked down there.
Glory re-membered: In Jr. High, he’d simulate this feeling of disgust by pulling the wings off of flies or by torturing some other small animal. (And sometimes, he would set fire to things and feel hot all over. Those times, he’d have strange dreams and wake up with his sheets all wet).
Then: He had fantasized about being in the military. He wanted to visit dirty places, to hurt people, and to start fires. He needed to find cheaper prostitutes. And he wished that he could die… so that he could be a hero!
Now: He was a man. So, he abused men. He’d take out his whip to them, he’d get himself a stiff one, and then (because he could afford to) he’d pay a woman to love him. Like his father?
Now and then: He was a hero…. Like his father.
So, this is how Glory came to speak of his superiors without finding any fault: He became them. And so, he was sent forth to gather other souls to them.
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