The Weaponization of Feminine Charm
Beware of pretty faces that you find / A pretty face can hide an evil mind…”
—Johnny Rivers, “Secret Agent Man”
“Nuclear war via missiles scared everybody 70 years ago,” Doug Casey writes. “But today it’s not a practical threat. The likely threats, I think, are from more subtle areas—cyber war, bio war, or a new type of guerrilla war.”
There’s another threat that Casey didn’t mention, one that’s been around since humans began noticing the opposite sex, the import of which was immortalized in Christopher Marlowe’s play, Doctor Faustus. Marlowe paid tribute to what he considered the ultimate power in the universe, the face that launched a thousand ships: Helen of Troy. Her kiss was so powerful it sucked the soul from the body of his character, Doctor Faustus. “Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter,” Faustus exclaimed, referring to the god of Roman mythology, and more lovely than Arethusa, the “fair maiden” pursued by the river god Alpheus.
Helen and the Trojan War provides the perfect tribute to women’s power and how it will often overtake men in their attempt to think.
Faustus . . . [imagines] himself in the role of Paris, the man who sparked the Trojan War by taking Helen. He suggests that for the sake of Helen, he would allow his own city, Wittenberg, to be destroyed, just as Troy was. He fantasizes about fighting Menelaus, Helen’s rightful husband, and even defeating Achilles, the greatest warrior in Greek mythology.
Not every man shares Faustus’s obsession, but Marlowe and the myth underscore an often overlooked point: Women have power over men, many of whom hold key positions and err fatally when they’re the targets of feminine charm. And what woman wouldn’t feel exultant to have a fleet of warships — or drones — launched solely on her behalf? It is another of those “subtle threats” that seemingly come from nowhere and are often hidden until they explode.
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