And now you're wondering about the Locust King. Where did this bit of Neo mythology spring from, and why is he pushing it into my brain? The answer is pretty simple. I'm creating new mythology for the same reason that HP Lovecraft did. Because gods and demons are the vocabulary with which our brains understand Concepts. And I need ones not currently infected by your preconceptions. I need vocabulary that actually applies to the subject on which I am speaking. The supernatural lives within stories. For the metaphor is the only habitat which exists outside the natural, the only habitat which can be by definition: Supernatural. And if I wish to speak in metaphor , if I wish to speak on a grand a cosmic scale, and not lose you ; I must speak in the language of gods and demons and devils.
So who or what is the Locust King? The Locust King is the god of hunger, the false god of consumption, the demon of the locust swarm. The locust King is the ultimate embodiment of human civilization, of the spirit of progress, of the idea of the virtue of unlimited growth. The Locust king is capitalism writ large. The Locust King makes but one promise to all he meets comma Feast with me and starve tomorrow or fight against me and die today.
Now like all gods, real or false, the Locust King has an origin story. I will not be telling that origin story here today. That is for later in our conversation. For now simply understand but the Locust King is the embodiment of the drive that Civilization has to expand and conquer grow and consolidate comma the idea that growth is itself success. The Locust King is cancer as a philosophy of life. If you understand that much now, it will be enough for us to continue on.
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