The old Oracle of Delphi in the new Eco-cult of Al Gore

The original earth goddess cult at Delphi in ancientthemselves, which added to the natural euphoric
Greece has many similarities with today's eco-fasciststate. No wonder they spoke a lot of gibberish.
earth loving cult. Both are pagan. Both rely onYet people came from all over Greece and beyond
unscientific methods. Both are regulated by a highto have their questions about the future answered
priest caste. Both extract monies for theirby the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo or one of her
'prophecies'. Both provide gibberish dressed up asassociates. Their answers were usually so vague as
intelligence. Both desire to manipulate politics forto be meaningless but the superstitious ethos of the
monetary advantage. Both are deranged. Yet thetime, and the great desire to propitiate and ingratiate
Romans had to good sense to shut down the Oraclemother Gaia, meant that all utterances from the
at Delphi in 390 AD. I wonder if we have the goodcenter of the earth were taken as serious
sense to shut down the modern version of the earthproclamations. It was this mystic cult worship that
goddess cult?kept Delphi in power and relevance. All the Greek
Al Gore's and the UN's new version of the Delphicgods were represented and worshipped there, and
Oracle goes something like this. We, the earth-cultthey were all connected to Gaia and the birthplace of
pagan society, will decide on all affairs. Political,the world.
military, financial, civilian and economic issues must beEach year thousands would pilgrimage to Delphi - a
given to the high priest earth-goddess cult, to begreat boon in taxation, wealth and trade for the
vetted and approved by Gaia. Once approved thetown. The earth-cult thing was a great shakedown
elite will bless the policy and monitor itsand the people at Delphi knew that as long as the
implementation. If you, the toiling knave, do notoracle was the center of the cult, their small town
follow the high priest's dictates, then you will bewould remain incredibly wealthy. In fact the
destroyed or at least taxed to death. You mustadornments, statues and wealth on display at Delphi
obey and interpret the earth cult oracle, not questionwere so fantastic that 2 Roman emperors sacked it,
or doubt it.carrying off literally thousands of items back to
The similarities with the paganism that helped shapedRome - and yet much wealth still remained.
the Greek and ancient world from 1700 BC to 390Like the current eco-fascist earth cult, the Delphic
AD [a long 2.000 years] are rather obvious, and areoracle was rather hypocritical. In 480 BC as the
extremely unnerving.Persians were advancing into Greece the oracle was
Looking back through history we can laugh at thesupposedly pro-Greek in its prophecies. As the
cults but maybe our laughter is misplaced. Islam? WhyPersians advanced into central Greece and
would anyone accept that a moon symbol is a god,threatened Athens the oracle began to change
and that this so-called god only spoke Arabaic to anpolitical allegiance and began forecasting a Persian
illiterate war-monger named Mohammad? Yet thisvictory. With the Greek naval victory at Salamis in
nonsense of a cult is the greatest threat to480 BC and later at Plataea in 479 BC the oracle
civilization since the rise of the twin fascisms ofreverted to its usual pro-Greek interpretation of
Hitlerism and Russian Communism [yes fascism is angeo-political events. This subtle change in orientation
extreme left-wing ideology]. The earth-cult? Whywas not lost on the ancient Greeks at the time.
would any ancient Greek run off to a mountain nearBut you can forgive the ancient Greeks their
the Corinthian Gulf and ask some half-clad hot lookingsubservient paganism and support of an earth cult.
chick for a prophecy or a forecast of the future?The scientific method, the rational revolution, the
Surely men are more rational than this. Then againEnlightenment and the creation of the modern world,
apparently not since the earth-cult had greatbuilt in part upon ancient Greek ideas were of course
influence in ancient affairs sometimes dictating thenot existent during the Delphic cult. In the modern
entire fates of empires and the direction of historyage of scientific inquiry, logical discourse and rigorous
and even today tawdry chicks command respect outmethodology the question has to be asked, 'what is
of any proportion to their actual societal contributions.our excuse?'
Like today's Al Gore-David Suziki-UN eco-fascist cult,The only answer might be that the earth cult and
the Delphic oracle was considered to be the centerother primitive paganisms are still as attractive today
of the world. Built on top of two geological fault linesas they were 2000 years ago. Simplistic answers,
the oracle emitted various gases including ammoniasimpleton solutions, and simple programs to make
and C02 [can you imagine the UN's annoyance atsense out of reality and the world, still exert a
this]. In combination with a lack of oxygen thesefascination. That is why it is safe to say that the
gases could induce a trance like state. Added tohuman genome has not undergone much in the way
these natural phenomena, the scantily cladof change in the past 100.000 years.
priestesses would chew on herbal drugs duly stoning