But when it comes to actually committing the crime, "O.J. cannot make " "O.J. do it. Unlike the guy playing him he is not such a great actor, he cannot make " "O.J. that different from himself; moreover, I don't think he wants to give a detailed description of that crime. So you get the before and the after the event, but not the event itself.
All this is exactly as it should be, as the Fall is now something that happens on two levels at the same time. To "O.J. for whom this is the confession and to " "O.J. who is innocent one moment and finds himself covered with blood the next, two dead bodies laying on the ground, and he doesn't know what happened ... So it hits you twice, in two ways, at the same time. This is the most shocking thing I ever read. It's absolutely horrible.
Gradually "O.J. returns to reality and the fantasy story ends with "The last hour was just a nightmare. It's over.
But the real nightmare has yet to begin and it is a gruesome nightmare. The amazing thing is that now everything that happens after the murders feels as the result of the confession: the consequences of the Fall. As "O.J. is locked up in the end it's the locking up of a person's soul.
It was a simplification to say that on the superficial level it's a real story and on the deeper level it's fiction. The confession is of course a fictional story and the fact that Mr. Simpson would somehow have been forced to tell it is not true either; that play was carefully planned. The story "O.J. tells about his life is some kind of half-fiction, as he is not for real and the events that are told are selected to fit into the story. But then the real world seriously enters into it when you get real documentation, a letter, a transcript of a 911 call ... and in the end you step out in the cold, harsh reality with the transcript of that interrogation. The effect is that it seems that the real world flows into it, the story of the fall becomes the story of his life and, in the end, the story of mankind.
Part III. The consequences of the Fall.
This we hold for self-evident, that all human beings are equal by nature. That is the fundament of all ethics.
As you see an equal in everyone you get in touch with it seems people
will in general keep to this rule automatically. But children live in a
different world and speak a different language, so maybe it all started with
child neglect, parents not knowing their children well enough to understand
them ...
And then they think children are not real people, and there is something wrong with them, and the properties of a child are bad and should be got rid of and replaced by adult properties, and so they punish their children for being children. So this would be the oldest form of fascism: despise for children. (The relationship between children and adults is asymmetrical, but that doesn't mean they are not equals.)
It doesn't stop there. It's not for no good reason that in Genesis those fig-leaves come right after the Fall. When children have learned that all kinds of bad impulses come out of their subconscious minds, like something evil is living in there, how are they going to explain their first sexual fantasies? It's very likely that they don't dare to think about them, and completely misinterpret them. I suppose this is the cause of sexism, men assuming that women have no honor, no self-respect, no human dignity ... they are Untermenschen, sub-humans.
Here a problem arises. How to avoid getting in touch with them and seeing them as equals? Several solutions have been found. In some cultures men and women live in separate worlds and women are not allowed to show there faces in public. In Western civilization women are taught to parade around as decorative and/or sexual objects, plastic smiles on rubber faces, their breasts peeping out of their dresses like a baby's behind ... Thus teaching little boys that women have no honor and little girls to make themselves blind for the meaning of it. Yet nature often proves stronger then culture and many man feel the need to constantly prove their superiority by insulting women, using sex as an expression of despise and beating women up.
Of course it is all a bit more complicated then this. Not everybody despises children, not all men are sexist. I would say you can split up mankind in two parts: those who have sold their souls to the devil by giving up on the principal of equality, defining parts of the population as inferior, and those who haven't. The first category I will call the indecent, the other the decent. The Fall is something that happens to practically everyone, one way or the other, we all looked up one day to find ourselves covered with blood, not knowing what happened ... But we haven't all sold our souls to the devil. I don't know why some do and some don't, it depends, I suppose, on many factors.
As we all know, it didn't end here, as it does in Genesis. That story
ends with all women being decent and all men sexist, so that women love men but
men can't love women. In a one-sided love relationship the one who doesn't love
rules and thinks it's natural, for those who have no love mistake it for
servility. It's written with the pen of the devil so it's called a punishment:
the subhumans are always blamed themselves for the crimes committed against
them.
The only thing that can make a person feel inferior is guilt, for having treated somebody as inferior; nature's punishment is that you now feel inferior yourself, a very unpleasant feeling that you can only cure by making up and restoring equality. It may seem there are other inferior properties but I don't think that is really true. When you feel inferior for being, for example, stupid, you feel that it's your own fault and that you are insulting other people with it.
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