Guilt and shame, the ultimate tools of control. To bring one’s feelings against his own ideas and interests is to control his very ability to perform an action. To dominate one’s mind is to dominate his body, and Nietzsche spoke of this. He spoke of man suffering from his own actions: the unhappy man who has come to understand his unhappiness as a condition of punishment, and the sick man who has been made into the sinner whose visage will never disappear and whose gaze always turns towards the direction of guilt as the sole cause of suffering — “the abominable beast” he quoted Luther. The cry for redemption is the cry of a man who has succumbed to control of the ascetic priest, the shepherd of the sheeply rabble, who himself is of the rabble. This sinner is a man who lives by fear as his own code, who deceives and hides amongst the weak. He conceals his true nature as best he can against those who may sniff him out, but wherever a flock goes so too do the beasts that can break past these defences.
A parasite depends on the host body not to detect it, and for its defences to fail when they have. When the beasts rip through the flock, they take the weakest first, and when the flock is being trimmed on all sides only the strongest remain to force their way out. A sense may be dulled from lack of use, but can easily be awoken after a long break. The body is extremely resilient, and can detect things on a level separate from conscience. In this flock the parasites that hid themselves within get left behind, for they have not trained to move and lay behind. They live in sloth because the grazing was good and food was abundant without needing to go far. Yet this spelt their demise, in the grass and in the air, they could not sense what was coming until it was too late. A body’s defences always destroy, it is only a matter of how far it is willing to go in destroying to eliminate the threat. The weak and inadequate do not survive when the beasts descend, and the parasites go with them.