The title says it all - Sweet Jesus - the unsavoury truths that we hide inside our own social institutions, like churches.
Based on the movie Soylent Green this tonepoem explores the thot that we eat our gods, whether in catholicism with its wafers and wine, or in palaeolithic cultures with their vegetable god, et al... and we ourselves are of course consumed by Truth... or as the priest Paul says: "All Truth is destroying me."
In this particular piece I focus on the idea that truth consumes us and we have been cannibals since b4 christ and catholicism. (btw the priest is named paul, kinda a nice nod, layers in some nice ambiguity).
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SOYLENT GREEN! - Sweet Jesus brand mix Now!!!!! with More FIBRE!
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For more about the movie Soylent Green go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Here is a related article about GMO`s and how we perceive the world http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2013/05/30/why-gmo-myths-are-so-appealing-and-powerful/#.VaffjflVhBc
I would also like to add that Erich Fromm often made the point in many of his books that it is our stomachs that give us our diversity, adaptability, autonomy and strength... any of his books are well worth reading, many were published around the time that Soylent Green was put out, and he had a profound impact on the intellectuals of his day.
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