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• Wednesday, January 7, 2009 06:15 AM

  Our Mythosociopsychopathology in a Nutshell vs. Our More Perfect Union

  Myths shape the cosmos in which we enact the theater of Life.

  [[[Absolute Elite Supremacy / Our Common Weal///[[[{{{Absolute Demos Subjugation}}}]]]]]]

  • This expression reads: "An elite minority asserts privileged access to and dominance over our Common Weal, simultaneously and absolutely denying a subjugated group."

  Substitute any dom/sub pairing you like. Take Israel and the Occupied Territories, for example.

  The slashes and brackets represent all the divisions we hide behind, including the most intimate: the illusory self/other divide. Not only every brick & mortar wall ever built: every racist epithet and Jim Crow law; every Klansman's hood and our own self-deceptions, etc.

  For example, where, precisely, do "you" stop and the rest of us begin? Where is the self/other divide? Can you locate it for me? Can you put your finger on it?

  Of what is it made? How does it function? Since there is obviously stuff going in and out all the time across this "barrier," then isn't any delineation of an absolute boundary an arbitrary imposition by the delineator?

  If there really was an absolute boundary, one self from it's equal and opposite, then you wouldn't be able to breathe, let alone be aware of this right here:

  Our shared becoming.

  How are these words right here working right now? As self-emptying vessels.

  From out of the inchoate ocean of Being, into these words I pour my heart out to you; I click 'submit,' and pass them over to you (a rather Islamic label for an action, eh?); as you pass your eyes over them, they self-empty into your inchoate ocean of being aware of your own becoming, like rain falling into the body of water from which it first arose.

  Where was the checkpoint, the border guard, the "no man's zone?" If there exists an absolute divide between us, how are we now experiencing this union of being?

  beloved/UNION/Beloved

  This is our more perfect Union. Welcome home, Stranger.

  —knowbuddhau2 Read knowbuddhau2's other letters
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