Mother’s Prototype: Sinai You Crazy Mountain
Designing a sanitised, project-managed massacre
Music: “Symposium”
Scenography (Sc.)
You are as present as this hallucinatory simulation permits
Over the next week we will workshop this together
Rather than a cycle, imagine these happening all at once
(The exegesis elaborates on the rationale)
[1] Dancing around the golden calf
[2] Moses shatters the tablets
[3] The Levites burn and grind the calf into powder
[4] They spread the remnants into the water
[5] The community drinks this water
[6] Moses orders the Levites to kill the transgressors
[7] The massacre
(Chanted summary)
Dance
Shatter
Burn
Spread
Drink
Order
The Massacre
Levites:
Given the order by God and Moses
How might we mercifully dispatch the condemned?
Let us comply without panic or suffering
Draft your proposals and we will seek a consensus solution
Let us carefully rehearse and revise the procedure
Sc.
An animated Gantt chart follows the described action
The Golden Calf is prepared and placed into the water
They drink – then celebrate, pray, feast and dance
They are individually led to the facilities, which are hidden from general view
We envelop them in a shroud (to obscure our gaze and their humanity)
The condemnation order is repeated reverently
They are painlessly decapitated and removed
Levites:
A prototype facility is constructed
All that remains is to pilot test the procedure
Shall we rotate responsibilities or specialise?
Let us remind ourselves
This is a holy act – a holy ritual
