And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28

and the reason for the expulsion was the discovery of sexuality; or some kind of enlightenment, either way, he wanted them gone and here the program was set into motion. Fast forward sexuality turned into a commodity and the program threatened to come to a screeching halt, as this multiplication has exhausted that subdued earth. And, Mr. Senator, while you were reading out loud to us this passage from a book that you want to have banned, burned, and want to see bonfires to cleanse yourself in: Did you have an erection? And when you imagine drilling into the white-covered Alaskan soil to provoke a black ejaculation of oil – do you have an erection then? The obsession of evangelicals with other people’s sexuality; and their obsession to subdue the earth, intricately linked to this moment of expulsion from paradise…

Paradise, Berlin, October 2022