S-21

Writing this is hard.

We had seen the silver pagoda and the royal palace, brilliant and intricate with the four faces of Buddha shining from its tall spire; directly under that spire lies the king's throne upon which he only ever sits once, in order to be crowned. In the sacred act of coronation it is hoped he will be imbued with the four noble qualities of Buddha: Equanimity, Loving Kindness, Sympathy and Compassion.

Then we went to S-21.

If I saw the devil standing before me right now, I would go over to him and apologise for all the sht we place on him, all the times he gets used as a scapegoat, the devil made me do it . What a comfort to have something or someone else to blame! But I suspect that if we traced each image and idea of the adversary backwards from Tom Ellis through Eliphas Levi, from Dante to Bosch, back, back, back before the Books of Job or Genesis, we would find ourselves eventually discarding snakes and goats and looking at a stick figure on a cave wall; the artist might put horns on it or a ring around it to set it apart, but the figure will always be based on the human.

( Upsetting, beware )