Amadeus
Can all men truly be equal in God's eyes? How can it possibly be true? Men are appointed king, Men are born into poverty. Our fates seem to say otherwise. Men are born into culture and discover seemingly innate and natural value systems for assessing talent, worth, success. We teach ourselves how to take part in this cycle of violence and to produce these values. And yet, all fall short of perfection, and all will die. None can escape this, even those of us who manage to be Deified. Even when we are seemingly permanently enshrined within our eternal mythologies for our Art and our Actions, none can escape the innate human experience of submission to the other.
God, a mischievous bastard, absurdly chooses to immortalize Salieri not via granting his "humble prayer" allowing him reward through his "dedication to his craft", but for his sins, all seven of them, playing Cain in the immortal legend of Mozart.
"The story of Cain and Abel is a myth, i.e. it expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an 'eternal' idea(...) It shows us how brothers can become mortal enemies through the very fact that they worship the same God in the same way. The source of religious wars is revealed here; and it is not the difference in dogma nor that of cult or ritual which is the cause, but uniquely the pretention to equality or, if one prefers, the negation of hierarchy. Here also is the world’s first revolution—the archetype (Goethe’s Urphänomen) of all revolutions which have taken place and which will take place in the future of humanity. For the cause of all wars and revolutions—in a word, of all violence—is always the same: the negation of hierarchy."
-Meditations on the Tarot, Anonymous
(08-20-2026)