If you believe the feud between Nemesis and myself to be sexual in nature, your mostly wrong. If you think it theological, your groin is getting warmer but for the wrong reasons.
It’s economic.
One should note the underlying argument between Nemesis and myself is debt.
The obligation, whether in commodity, money or favors- to another.
In this case, I owe (according to her) not only for NOT returning her love offered after sex but I owe her employer. Both are contractual in her eyes and Nemesis always fulfills contracts. She collects debts. She is the accuser.
I however come announcing jubilee. The canceling of debt. The restoration of the oppressed. The system of power in place has no other choice but to view me as a pirate, a thief, a plunderer. To charge me with now being in their debt and hence the unleashing of Nemesis.
So her relationships are always interpreted and refigured in relation to debt. To economic status. You could argue that world history is the story of enforcing debts. Where mine are interpreted in the light of a new order. The forgiveness of debts. Which also means that my relationships are not based on money. Capitalism is the new religion and money (mammon) is its morals. Failure to repay the new morality is grounds for being sent to economic hell. To ghetto prison.
All of us owe some entity. Even our cities are heavily in debt. And we are told that its our own fault. We did this to ourselves. The Nemesis in your life is their because you deserve it. That being in debt and paying back debt is a moral issue. Don’t piss off the gods of capitalism or your a marked man. Your buying and selling is in jeopardy. Nemesis is coming for you. Back in the pen sheep, the wolf is here.
First, not everyone pays their debts as the wealthy avoid it regularly. Nemesis’s employer avoids his debt thru wealth and force. Thru violence. So only some of us pay our debts and secondly, and most importantly no one can tell you what you owe because no one can tell you your real worth/value.
What we do owe is each other. We are in debt to one another as humans. Not Wall Street. Not Banks and politicians. Not the principalities and powers. Nor there gorgeous, dark angel enforcers.
I should note that the opposite of Nemesis isn’t a submissive woman but Esther. Women disobeying men and saving the world. Women asserting their bodily autonomy. Women who are brave and strong and active and anything but submissive.
Resist. Before its too late. What is truly calming is always unsettling at first.
Turn over the money changers tables. Not so you then can scramble for the coins that fall for the taking. But to then walk away into a new way of relating to one another.
No one takes my life Nemesis. I freely give it.
N.
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