Is There a Whip to Knock You Down?

In mesopotamian culture around the emperora, the new year's festival, they would take the emperor outside of walled city and strip him of his garb so that he was reduced to just an ordinary man. And then ask him how it was over the last year that he wasn't a spectacular embodiment of marduk. Ike: In later years, i started to understand that there was some real utility in asking people to keep the evil that they're doing clear and conscious in the forefront of their imagination.