SMOKING AND
SNIFFING
If
eating to get high
Pertains
to the bureaucratic Kingdom,
And
drinking to get high
Pertains
to the democratic Church,
Then
smoking to get high
Pertains
to the autocratic State
And
sniffing to get high
Pertains to the theocratic Centre.
Eating
and drinking
Are
natural and antinatural,
Whereas
smoking and sniffing
Are subnatural and supernatural.
If
eating is barbarous and drinking civilized,
Then
smoking is uncivilized
And sniffing supercivilized.
Human
evolution proceeds, we needn't doubt,
From
the first to the last,
With
all due compromises coming in-between,
And
should eventually culminate
In
a kind of sniffing absolutism,
With
eating, drinking, and smoking
Beneath the pale of its future theocratic integrity.
People
of the Centrist civilization
Won't
eat and/or drink as freely
As
people do in a bureaucratic/democratic society,
But
will become increasingly partial
To
the use of vitamin tablets and/or capsules ...
As
appropriate to an age of sniffing,
An
alternative rather than supplement
To natural foods and drinks.
Smoking
tobacco will be no less irrelevant
Than
drinking alcohol,
And
if any smoking were to be permitted
During
the lower phase of a Centrist age ...
It
could only be in the guise
Of
dope-smoking through pipes,
As symptomatic of a pseudo-theocratic bias.