As some of you may know, America's favorite mock(?) human sacrifice ritual begins today. And the idle rich, Silicon Valley techbros, aging rave-babes, and a smattering of leftover hippies are already out in force.
Get ready for an incoming monsoon of expensive liquors, sweat, dust, and bodily fluids and let the burns begin!
Was Milton making a statement with Lucifer, was he telling a story of Europe's lost innocence, how it had been led astray by charismatic rebels who declared war on the established order and now men like Milton were left to pay the price for their impiety?
Because there was a charismatic rebel who lived just a few decades before the creation of Paradise Lost, a rebel who not only declared war on the cosmic order itself, but also sought to bring back the actual worship of the old gods to Europe…
