Speaker 1: This is actually one of the funniest things about this
event is all these people and a lot of Christians
going online saying it's actually not the Last Supper, you know,
it's the feast of Dionysus. Why are all the Christians
getting so annoyed and why are the Christians getting so mad?
You know, I am educated. I understand that this is
the feast of Dionysus. It's like the capacity of people
to easily accept gaslighting is hilarious, you know. I mean,
it's like, are we still are we back in COVID
once again? Is that what's going on? Or you know,
I guess so. I guess it doesn't take much. You know,
people don't learn their lesson. This is Jonathan Peshel Welcome
to the Symbolic world. So hello everyone. As most of
you noticed, the Olympic opening has created quite a stir
a lot of people reacting online. It seems like everyone
is talking about it for some reason. On Facebook, it's
like my entire feed with people commenting on the Olympic
opening ceremony. To be honest, I did not have the
intention of making a video on this, but people close
to me that I care about and that I trust
have said that it would be a good idea to
make a video about it, mostly because yeah, maybe to
help people understand what is going on and why things
look the way they do. And so here we are.
I'm going to talk about the Olympics opening ceremony. So
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so the first thing I have to say before I
start giving my critique is that it is all very
tedious to me. You know, the whole thing is just oh,
it just makes me want to go to sleep. It's
like this super obvious, super boring. Everything is so obvious,
and you know, I mean, I understand that it's shocking
to some people, but I don't know why people are shocked.
There's people shouldn't be shocked at this point, because you know, basically,
this is just a continuation of what has been happening
for the past five years, ten years, twenty years, more
than that possibly, And you know, as the image of
what has been happening in our culture is becoming more
and more and maybe more and more transparent, you know,
in some ways, I'm happy that more people are noticing,
but this is just a continuation of what is going on,
and so what are we talking about most of you know,
the Paris Olympics opened up a few days ago, and
there are several elements in the opening that were disturbing
to some and the culmination of that disturbance came with
a representation of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci,
in which was full of drag queens and you know,
kind of LGBT icons and in the middle of the scene,
you know, because it was the Last Supper, so obviously
it's a meal, and then the meal gets opened up.
So this plate comes up to the scene and the
meal gets opened up, and inside is a strange blue
man wearing almost nothing who starts to sing very sensuously
and strangely, and then everybody in the scene of the
Last Supper begins to kind of frolic very orgiastically in
a very disturbing manner, made even more disturbing by the
fact that in the group was what seemed to be
a prepbescent young girl who then get taken by one
of the men, you know, in his arms, kind of
in a dance move, as all these other people are
starting to kind of frolic and caress each other and
rub up against each other. And so the first thing
we have to dispel is this is actually one of
the funniest things about this event is all these people
and a lot of Christians going online saying it's actually
not the Last Supper, you know, it's the Feast of Dionysus.
Why are all the Christians getting so annoyed and why
are the Christians getting so mad? You know, I am educated.
I understand that this is the feast of Dionysus. It's
like the capacity of people to easily accept gaslighting is hilarious,
you know, I mean, it's like, are we still are
we back in it once again? Is that what's going on?
Or you know, I guess so, I guess it doesn't
take much. You know, people don't learn their lesson the
scene is clearly referencing the Last Supper. The name of
the tableau was a wordplay in French, which is which
was Lassanne, where I forget how exactly it goes. It's
something like lasanne de Lasanne at Paris or Lasanne, which
means you can't really translate it into French because there's
a word play in it, which basically, if he translated
into English, he means the scene of the Last Supper
on the Seine River, because in French one of the
words for the last supper is lasagne, and so lasagne
de lasane, so lasgne, right, and so the name of
the tableau was referencing the Last Supper. The head of
the event said that he was referencing the Last Supper.
The main person in the middle, the DJ, the kind
of fat lesbian DJ that was in the center. She
posted on insect Graham saying that it was the new
gay Testament, right, and that this is what they were doing.
She deleted, of course the post later and changed it
by saying no, no, no, it is Dionysus. And so,
first of all, clearly it was referencing Leonardo da Vinci's
Last Supper. But you know this is The thing is
that you have to just understand what it's about, is
that they're saying, no, what we want to do is
we're emphasizing openness, we're emphasizing diversity, we're emphasizing inclusion. And
that's exactly what they're doing. Now. The problem, there's nothing
wrong with diversity and there's nothing wrong with inclusion. We
mentioned this several times. It's necessary for a society to
exist to have diversity and inclusion, but societies do not
celebrate diversity. The only way to celebrate diversity is by carnival.
The only way to celebrate diversity is by turning unity
upside down, by emphasisizing the fringe, the margin, and the
imagery of the carnival. Now, the imagery of the carnival
goes even further than the imagery of the carnival. We
have carnivals in the West, of course, you know, we
have Halloween and Feast of Fools, we have Marty Grass,
we have all these traditions of carnival in the West,
which are moments of inversion and scandal and chaos, which
is usually then followed by some kind of return to normalcy.
Either it's the Fast in Christianity, the the whether it's
lent or different ways of doing it, but it usually
references it usually moved into return to normalcy. And these
festivals are important and they're part of the yearly cycle.
The idea of kind of showing the chaos or showing
the inversion as a limit of order. But that is
the only way to celebrate diversity. And so that this
is why there's an absolute coherence in everything about this imagery,
the rainbow flag, where it's multiplicity of color, you know,
the rainbow as an image of multiplicity, not unity. The
image of the drag queen as ambiguity, as a man
who's dressed as a woman but also has a beard
and is showing their ambiguity. All of this is there
was there obviously in the ceremony, but it is part
of the culture, and so you don't there's nothing hidden
about it, you know. And it's also what I'm saying
is not a gloss on top of what's going on.
This is the discourse of the people engaged in this themselves.
There's a pastor in the United States, a pastor, a
Methodist pastor who does his sermons in drag and he
says it clearly in his speeches. In his sermons, he
says that the best ways to.
Speaker 2: Enact systemic change is through joy and Carnival is carnival.
Speaker 1: It is over the.
Speaker 2: Top, It is loud, it is joyous, it is laugh filled,
and it is in moments where people on the margins
are handled just a little bit of power, and when
they hold onto that power for longer than it was intended,
things happen.
Speaker 1: Drag is carnival, and carnival is a manner to bring
about change, to bring about transformation. Now, what is the
transformation that is happening. The transformation that is happening is
the dissolution of normal identities in order to reconstitute them
at higher levels. You could understand it as a revolutionary trope.
We want to destroy, We want to destroy identities in
order to reconstitute them into a new identity. What is
this new identity? You know, it's a transhuman identity, it's
a post human identity. It is a universalist image where
all the distinctions kind of disappear into a you know,
kind of chaotic, amorphous being. And this is what was
happening in the event. Now, a good way to do
that is to do it exactly the way that they did,
because the Last Supper is an image of the cohesion
of the West for the past two thousand years. It
is the way in which it is one of the
central images of how the West communes together, brings multiplicity
into one, into the Holy Meal. That is the center
of the Church, that is the center of the community,
that is the center of the Western nations, and has
been now for millennia. And so the best way to
undo that, in order to bring about a new identity
is of course, to undo communion, is to mock the
things that are sacred, and you know, and it's not
like this is the first time this happens. That the
entire kind of drive, like one of the of the
drag Queen and a lot of the rainbow stuff, is
of course to replace the sacred with a new sacred,
which is the sacred of ambiguity, a sacred of multiplicity,
you know, the sacred of difference. And these are all
things that the people involved in these events and in
this way of thinking are saying that they're doing themselves.
So we have to just be aware that that's what's
going on now. I do believe that it is destructive,
like you know, it is really in some ways undermining, right,
literally inverting twisting. They use the word queering, it's queering
Christianity in order to bring it into this new vision
of reality. And so a good way to do it,
for example, is to take the Last Supper and then
replace it with an orgy, replace it with a Bacchanalian festival.
Because it's not like there aren't certain analogies that you
can make between the image of the you know, the
image of the feasts, for example, the banquets of Dionysus
and the Holy Communion. There are certain types of analogies
that are there, of course, in Christianity. It is in
some ways it kind of bringing in of multiplicity into one.
There is an aspect of the scandal in communion that
I've mentioned before, which is this idea of eating the
body of the God. But it is sublimated, right, It's
transformed into a you know, a vector of unity where
all things are kind of collected together. Now, a good
way to subvert that is, of course, to bring back
these kind of Dionysian party instead of a true communion.
And you know, this presenting of the god Dionysus as
the meal that we will enjoy in order to celebrate
our diversity. Now, remember that in the stories of Bacchus
and in the stories of Dionysus, there is this image, right,
we see it in the back eye of the sparagmus. Right,
this idea of the ripping a part of the character. Right,
the the the back celebrants that take the person and
rip them into into pieces. Right, And that's what is
being celebrated. I don't know what to tell you. That
is what is that is what is being celebrated in
this thing, because it is a celebration of diversity. It
is a celebration of multiplicity and of inclusion. Where you
know that it is the opposite of communion, but it's
so much the opposite that there is a man in
which you can see that they're related. And it all
has to do with, of course, this kind of the
kind of orgy culture, of the bacchanalia, which is trying
to come back, which is being reinstated in the image.
And so it's hilarious to watch Christians say, oh, it's
not the Last Supper, it's it's just the bacchanalia. It's
just basically a cannibalistic image and an orgy that is
being presented to us with a hint of pedophilia. And
people are saying, oh, you know, why are you getting
offended that this is the image that is being represented
as you know, one of the images that's being represented
to inaugurate an international celebration of excellence in sports, you know.
And the answer is, you know, we are so now
becomes so jaded and so used to seeing this kind
of insanity that we just see it and we watch it.
Now a lot of people maybe aren't aware of what
the guy was singing and what he was singing. He
was singing basically about inclusion and about you know, you know,
removing all our differences and seeing each other like we're
all naked. And then he starts saying and it's as
if and we have to celebrate each other like we're
all naked. And he kept repeating naked and naked, And
then the music bec came like very white bedroom music,
and everybody started to rub themselves against each other in
the background, and and and then you have these Christians going,
I'm an educated person, I'm not offended by a reference
to Dionysus in the Olympics. My goodness, is that really
where we are like, is that really the level that
where we are? And so you know, I mean, but
that is where we are, and that is what is happening,
and therefore what you know, because that the whole image
is so was clearly sexual, was clearly orgiastic in its references,
you know, and it's a celebration of diversity, you know,
if you look at what happened right after that part
of the section, the which is wild. I don't know
if they do this on purpose, it's like if it's
just accidental. But then the naked Dionysus, he gives it
off to the next show, which is called Darkness. Yes,
and then there's this dance, kind of phrenetic dance, so
it's a continuation of the other dances that were there before,
but it's called Darkness, and that's the next dance, and
then we cut straight into Imagined by John Lennon. It's like,
if you want to know what's going on, it's just
pretty clear what's going on. Imagine there's no heaven, there's
no hell, there's no difference, and we're all together as
one in a big, backing, alien, orgiastic feast, you know,
And that's what was being referenced, and you know, and
and how can I say this. It's like we're so
far down the line that although the people then gaslight
and lie and say, no, that's not what's reference, that's
not what's rench, but that is what's referenced. And they
know that's what's referenced, because that's really what they really
believe that that is a good thing. If we could
all just you know, like we could all just let
go of our differences and all bee and a big
in a big party, then that is an image of
a transcendent unity. And so you know, and so what
we're seeing is the return of Dionysus. And it makes
sense because that is what Dionysus is. It is the
extreme of the natural world. We're watching, civilization be undone.
We're watching and it's not like the Dinysian or the
kind of ecstatic, frenetic aspect of the world isn't integrated
into Christianity. It actually is, and it is some ways
integrated into the Last Supper. There is a Dionysian element
to the Last Supper. We can't deny that. But the
reason why it actually holds society together is because it's
not just that, right, communion brings together the kind of
ecstatic Dionysian excess with a reasonable communion in holy love
brings all of those extremes together into one. And so
a good way to undo it as post Christian is
to tease out those parts again, is to kind of
tease out all those those different things. And so you'll see, right,
this emphasis on I've mentioned it in many videos, this
emphasis on extreme reason and extreme order, that is image
and technology and the modern state and the modern bureaucracy,
which now becomes opposed to the kind of Dionysian chaotic,
you know, let's say, hybrid and ambiguous identity. And now
these two play with each other, right, I've mentioned it.
It's something like the horror sitting on the back of
the beast that we've seen in Revelation, that there's these
two extremes kind of playing off each other. And that
is of course what we saw during the thing. And
because it was so degenerate and so decadent, then it's
not surprising that other elements of the thing, which maybe
are are not as offensive or wouldn't have been as
offensive on their own, are now interpreted in that way,
you know, And there's not much to say about the
the the Marie Antoinette, if so they've seen it, you know,
there's an there was one scene with a heavy metal
band with Marieontoinette with her head cut off, you know,
holding her head in her hand and then her hand
and her head saying all will be well, as some
heavy metal band starts to play, and then there's like
these these explosions of blood, you know, out onto the
out onto the field, and it's like, yeah, you know,
that's it. And and it's interesting because the head of
the the one who orchestrated it, he said, you know,
it's the republican values. It's the values of the republic.
It's the values of the revolution. And the answer is
my reacting to that is that, yeah, that's what it is.
You know, hopefully people will start to understand that that
is what the that is what all of the revolution
leads to, is this type of kind of chaos and madness.
And so there are many other images people pointed to,
you know. Of course, this one of the strange image
was this kind of image of the torch bearer on
a horse kind of riding on the waters with wings
behind him, and he has this hood which looks. He
looks kind of like a strange, grim reaper figure. Is
that on purpose? Is that what it is? I don't know,
you know, at this point, anything is possible. But also
we shouldn't attribute too much intent to these people. They
are in some ways, many of them are in some
ways unconscious vehicles for things that they don't totally understand.
Their their pardon. We have to be careful in thinking
that this is some completely planned thing and it's mostly
you know, it's mostly people aligning themselves with certain virtues,
certain vices and certain values, let's say, and then those
playing themselves out in different ways. And that seems to
be the case of what we saw. But what I
hope is that for most people, you know, people can
just wake up and realize that that's happening, and that
the fact that it's been happening in our culture now
for a few generations, maybe six to sixties, actually that
all of this is happening, and that this kind of
inverted upside down subversive and you know, and a lot
of people are branding the word satanic around and I
think that it's okay to use that word if we
kind of understand it, you know, on the one hand,
you have the Satanists who say, oh, we're just being ironic,
We're just we're just being cynical. You know, we don't
really believe in Satan, we don't really believe in the devil.
All of this is just it's just a play, right,
It's all irony and joking. And the answer is, yeah,
we know, that's what it is, you know, And that's
what part of the problem is that if you celebrate
the irony, if you celebrate the upside down, if in
an event that is there to kind of bring nations
together and celebrate excellence in humans, and everything about your
celebration is ironic and mocking and degenerate. It's like, yeah,
that is Satanism, That's what it is. And I'm fine
with believing in thinking that people aren't sincere in their Satanism,
because that's what we're talking about. We're talking about not
being sincere and being dismissive and queering and turning things
upside down and making fun of them and mocking them.
And you know, that's where we are. But at some
point that will run out. And what is at the
same time being installed our new taboos and new systems
of control and you know, new moral taboos, like I said,
And so we have to remain attentive and and not
be distracted, you know, by the little blips of this.
We need to look at the long arc and see
what is happening, and and attach ourselves to that which
is important, to the things that actually do unify us,
to the virtues that we have in common, to the
stories that we have in common. And as Christians, when
you see this and you notice that they're mocking the
story of Christ, and that they're mocking the image not
only of Christ, but of the center of Western unity
for the past, that was the center of unity of
the Western world for the past few millennia, which is
which is the Holy Eucharist, which is communion. Then you know,
we have to attach ourselves even more to that unity
and understand that inversion and mocking is empty and it
will run out, you know. And the true seed, the
things that are true and that are good and that
are beautiful, they will win in the end. But it's
up to us to foster them and to make them
the priority in our lives. It's a lot easier to
get offended at something like this and to get annoyed
than it is to actually foster those things that are
important and valuable for the future of our children and
for whatever future our civilizations have. And so hopefully this
was helpful to help you understand what is going on,
and hopefully you know, I would say, you know, don't
freak out. This has been going on for a while,
this part for the course, and I just have to
warn you things are going to get crazier. Twenty twenty
four is not over yet. Folks. You haven't seen Pete crazy.
I warned you at the outset that twenty twenty four
is going to be mad with the Trump shooting and
everything that's happening in the United States on this of course,
but it's not over. So, like I mentioned on Twitter
on X basically, you know, cross yourself and then put
your hands up and it's the ride. The ride isn't
over yet. So thanks everybody, thanks for attention, and I'll
talk to you very soon. Bye bye,