The Task of Resistance
Pushback
The issue initially raised by election 2024 is whether resistance can undo the damage done. So that Sapiens won’t self-destruct in a new dark age of tribal ignorance and brutality, conducted by Frankenstein’s monster now in control of the world’s largest arsenal of advanced telecommunications and weaponry.
Old-time tyranny not to be vanquished by gallantry — an already dated Star Wars sequel. This is mass extinction – the sixth, human-caused and well underway.
The direct result of a version of self opposite to Sapiens’ Mind-being metaphysical Self: body-being. Human-ape with mind impaired and integrity corrupted. By the cause of all opposition to change present in the psychodynamics of evolution at the beginning: the force of Love’s abundance, life growing, activating an opposing force. Resistance to change from an unchanging status quo. Pushback.
By Relationship
The phenomenon re-enacted for the umpteenth time by election 2024. Giving a clouded mandate to the incoming regime but clear to those in its way. To avoid contamination by its moral and intellectual bilge and while they’re doing it get rid of the bilge. Free themselves from inhumanitarian rule by predatory instinct and commit to Guidance from Reality.
That’s not a self-contradictory, self-destructive kingdom of beasts nor a self-deluding “paradise” of unrelatability but a work of loving friendship. By Mind that’s not unrelatability on a remote mountaintop but the Relatability of Love and Logic here and Now. Mind doing what it is: Relationship.
The meaning and purpose of resistance
The task of resistance may still be to stand up to the bully in the usual ways. But if it means to break the soul-draining cycle of retrogression for good it will refocus its awareness on the real issue. Not whether the beast can get a makeover but whether its resistors can get a makeover.
Whether human-apes as individuals can end their fascination with conflict and competition, bodily pleasures and distractions. Whether they can open their minds and hearts to Guidance from loving friendship that isn’t self-destructive and choose together to reawaken the one Mind that they are.
To take care of the business that brought them here. By learning by trial and error why and how to differentiate between right and wrong, true and false, real and unreal. Between real Self, its impersonators, and between Guidance that’s helpful and manipulation that’s not. Because what explains the meaning and purpose of resistance isn’t body-being beast getting it wrong. It’s mind-being Sapiens needing to get it right.
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The Choice of Another Self
In the sanctuary of an ostrich
One answer to the question what its circumstances are telling Sapiens is that its evolution beyond species of ape and tribal animal, at this hour, seems impossible. Because this being the psychological projection of the thought of separation, an impossibility, it isn’t only the idea of evolution that’s at risk. It’s physical survival. Possible in harsh environments, but the one that’s coming may not be survivable.
Making another planet habitable is science fiction. Capable of putting fluorescent adventure on a boy’s bedtime ceiling but not real people on an unforgiving landscape. Jamestown was part of a migration success story because it happened here. Where the bare essentials of personhood could be met as well as the bare essentials of an organism.
The equivalent of an Antarctic outpost set up in another part of the solar system might be manageable for a species of robots. Computer programs mimicking mind thinking, but how could it be manageable for person actually feeling? For psyche trying to keep its bearings in the cross winds of emotion. Mimicking sociability and sanity while seeking sanctuary in psychosis. An ostrich. Unable to manage here.
The substance of sensory perception
When the amygdala inherited from animals swinging from trees is still doing its thing at the base of Sapiens’ brain. Unevolved. Letting sophisticates power Sapiens to mind-boggling invention with parts evolving, alert to possibilities for re-working objects but at a loss to understand subject that put them there.
Still harboring the primitive aggressions and breastworks of suspicion. Bulls in their virtual pastures keeping watch over their herds with artificial intelligence. Desensitized by their eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and hooves from seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and stomping on what’s actually here.
Unable to conceive of any other guidance system than their five senses because blocked from what their sixth sense might reveal. The terrifying discovery that bulls, pastures, and herds aren’t “there” and neither is “there.” That sensory perception’s veritas–gravitas is bullshit.
Scrapped by crap
Election 2024 was a critical evolutionary performance check. Because in a prosperous, stable Democracy, heretofore reasonably disciplined, its beneficiaries freely chose to scrap it. To scrap a role model of judgment founded by exemplary statesmen on enlightened principles of governance. Choosing to reverse evolution by throwing control back from mindfulness to animal willfulness.
An act by a tribal beast terminally unable and unwilling to make the only choice that can move evolution forward. To get it out of harm’s way: the choice of another Self and the Guidance needed to make it. Not a nicer beast on another planet with GPS. But a being not captive to human-ape blocked from awareness of its own Self.
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Resistance is futile
Easier said than done since Mr. Talbot can transform into the Wolf Man any time there’s a full moon. Or Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, though not without a sip from a beaker. The only difference between human-beast and human-nice is that the beast can’t or won’t act nice.
The creature from the black lagoon mistakenly welcomed into a self-unaware mind is pushback from the status quo for Love’s ignoring its Do not Disturb sign. Earth’s animal kingdom was custom-made for its convenience, ensuring that whether personality type is mind- or body-centered ‘ape’ is always part of it. As ubiquitous as boundaryless Love but nosier. Much noisier.
Making human-ape so resistant to paradigm change that Max Planck didn’t think it possible until the next generation. Why? The reason was put on full display by election 2024. Willfulness contemptuous of mind offers no mind to change. And it can’t be changed by a contest of wills. The point isn’t friendship, civic unity, or governance. It’s victory or defeat. Dominance or submission. Power at the top of hierarchy or powerless at the bottom.
An empty boast
The point the debate loser in election 2024 tried to make with his desultory performance: why make a pretense of serious debate when persuasion is irrelevant? Weakness. The point itself a pretense to cover the humiliation of losing. Self-defeat denying victory its legitimacy.
Yet characteristic of the onslaught of script-reversing mischaracterizations to come. All re-enactments of the original con artist’s performance re-staged when status quo’s avenging agent recharacterized a disempowered Mind’s pleading for help as arrogance boasting of its invincibility. So that its mischaracterization by a parody of invincible arrogance could boast of its conquest.
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Is There a Better Way?
Love in reverse
What had seemed at first a promising strategy for neutering the beast in election 2024 fizzled instead. The losing candidate inspired trust by “knowing the type” of her male opponent whom she indeed bested with ease in the arena of debate. But it was her opponent who knew his enemy when it mattered.
When the psychodynamics of choice between one Self and its perversion by an alien version of itself abandoned the pretense of debate. With a change of venue to the arena of self-delusion. To unreality where alien always wins.
An outcome inevitable anytime a sucker born every day meets up with an experienced scammer. Experience gained not in the first instance by the scammer’s encounter with the Child of Love and Logic but with Love, the first of the Parents to disturb the status quo. Putting Love’s stamp forever on the nature of the scammer: Love in reverse.
Without Choice that’s Free
The phenomenon familiar to all who presume to disturb the status quo fiercely defended by “traditionalists,” “realists,” and “conservatives.” Their sacred cause to serve the god of their religion: body idolatry. Self-appointed guardians of the barrier separating an unloving status quo from its loving intruder. From progress in human-ape’s evolution toward awareness that it’s not any kind of animal. That it’s not bait for a scammer but the Child of Love and Logic.
Whose awakening from self-delusion to its real Mind-being Self will reverse energy from animating a nightmare to empowering the Mind dreaming it. From the denial of choice by willfulness to its affirmation by the Spontaneity and Order of Creation needing it. By integrity inert without Choice that’s Free.
With a genius for entertainment
The takeaway usually associated with A Course in Miracles is Forgiveness. In turn the takeaway associated with the otherwise mischaracterized meaning of Jesus, its personification and role model. But if resistance to takeover by the beast needs help with Self-Awareness it’s to be found in a less obvious place. In the Course’s dissection of the character of the ego at the center of Freud’s theory: his conception of human-ape’s self.
A demonstration of the scammer within leveraging its hold on the talents of the sucker to produce a remarkably convincing self-portrait. Not a personification of self-interest mediating rationally between superego-discipline and id-undiscipline but a risible caricature of itself that’s got it all together. A Vaudevillian act that belongs on stage because it has a genius for entertainment.
The last act
An entertainer-magician with super-human powers when it’s not an entertainer-joker knocking ‘em dead in the aisles. But withal a beast behind its masks released from status quo into the psyche of a self-unaware Child of Love, the Creative force of change. Of evolution that must do what it is: connect and grow.
Corrupting human-ape’s psyche with the very definition of craziness. Not so much the mind of any madman as the brain of a particular madman: Frankenstein’s monster. The face of fright. Saving its passion for the end: making stage, theatre, audience, and itself go up in a fireball of horror. Mob violence.
Passion for learning and growth
The takeaway being that the centerpiece of Freudian psychoanalytics – ego in between superego-discipline and id-undiscipline — provides the curious with a full-Monty look into the anatomy of brain-acting irrevocably attached to its five senses. Instead of into the personality of Self-thinking and Self-feeling with the faculties of Mind.
The Self brought into focus by Jungian psychoanalytics open to insights from Mind’s sixth sense. The seismic event precipitated by Carl Jung’s break with his former mentor Sigmund Freud in 1913. A re-enactment of the original resistance to Love-changing from status quo unchanging.
Where Freud’s body-smitten ego-self played the part of willfulness fiercely protective of five sensed self-unawareness against encroachment by a sixth sense. Guidance helping to restore Self-Awareness through Loving Friendship with the part played by Jung. Intuition with mind, heart, and soul open to change and a passion for learning and growth.
The religious atheist
Psychology’s seismic split was over whether to allow sixth sense into the conversation. To allow respect for Free Choice to escape from its confinement by sensory perception. From the baleful influence of its prison’s warden: body-idolizing “science,” soulmate of the Church’s religion of body-idolatry.
And inspiration for Freud’s ambition. To re-make psychology in theirs and his own image. The religion of body-idolatry that he sought to professionalize as “science of mind.” As he had done for its maker by labeling himself an atheist. An imposture unmasked by Jesus, the author of the Course, when he commented that Freud was one of the more “religious” persons he’d gotten to know.
Wanton helpfulness
The split between two thinkers over conflicting ideas wouldn’t have been a professional earthquake had one side not been a standard-bearer for status quo rigidity. Ever resistant to change, to questioning the unquestionable, and to loving friendship.
Because stamped with hostility to Love at its first-ever violation. By Affect at the beginning of everything, before it could even intend an injustice when not yet soulmate to Logic. Only being what it was at that stage of evolution: Abundance expanding in search of Relationship. Unboundaried Innocence recast by status quo as malice toward all – guilt. Helpfulness recast as wanton cruelty.
Fluid MBTI
A reflexive impression in reverse of whatever disturbs it, inherent in the nature of status quo. And in the nature of Freud’s body-centered resistance to Jung’s Mind-centered opening to another definition of Self. Revealed when their opposing approaches resolve into recognizable patterns of personality type. Presenting Definition’s divide between the reality of possibility on top and the unreality of impossibility below in actionable terms. In the terms of human-ape behavior.
The attributes of mind-centered personality type questioned by their body-centered opposites. In terms originally proposed by Jung and developed by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Fluid rather than static because of its source: the discipline of qualitative intuition moved and directed by Love-feeling and Logic-thought. With input from quantitative science when it makes sense but not to be replaced by it, which makes no sense.
Mind-centered Self
Ordered on the upper side of type from left to right. Relabeled where necessary to clarify their meaning from my perspective.
- Reflection. Intuition connecting through sixth sense with Guidance from Love-Logic. With spontaneous insights from another perspective essential to putting circumstances in their proper context. With explanation that leads to Understanding.
- Introversion. The inner-directed orientation required by Self-Awareness for its restoration in a make-believe world of externals. Introspection’s search for whole-person Self. For integrity behind the appearance of its corrupting fragmentation.
- Analysis. Mind differentiating with help from reflection and introspection. Interpreting meaning with the tools of quantitative measurement, the values of conscience-feeling, and the boundaries of Logic navigating.
- Choice. Mind fitting its situation with the response it calls for. Matching the right possibility identified by analysis with the right interpretation of meaning. The discipline of judgment integrating all things considered with the one that controls. The integrity of choice reflecting the Self who made it: character resistant to willfulness.
Self-centered arrogance
Ordered on the lower side of type from left to right. Relabeled to clarify their meaning from my perspective.
- Body-sensing. Mind-being reflection’s opposite. Self identified by the five senses of body-brain animal dependent on taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight for detection in its physical environment. The parameters of recognition by a single one-sided perspective that keeps human-ape caged in self-unawareness. Denied access to insights and explanation from another perspective through its sixth sense.
- Extraversion. Mind-being introversion’s opposite. The outer-directed orientation required by self-unawareness for its confinement to a make-believe world of externals. Obstructing introspection’s search for whole-person Self. For integrity, by appearing to validate human-ape’s corrupting fragmentation.
- Wildness. The opposite of Mind-being analysis. Hostility toward differentiation and the ability to interpret meaning. Toward help from any source that might limit it, particularly reflection and introspection. Having and wanting no talent for quantitative measurement or qualitative evaluation, particularly by the values of conscience-feeling and the boundaries of Logic navigating.
- Willfulness. The opposite of Mind-being Choice. Animal-brain willing its response to disturbances of its make-believe status quo to be whatever it calls for, preferably preservation of the same status quo. Without analysis or awareness of any other possibility. Letting will’s animal instinct determine meaning with its five senses without the need for Mind-interpreting with any other sense. Hostile toward judgment or any other discipline that would confine it within the boundaries of definition. Preferring instead the god-like authority of willfulness to define and reflect itself in its made-up world as it pleases.
A clear choice
When top and bottom tier are held up for interpretation together choice emerges as clear as the choice between Jungian and Freudian psychoanalysis. Between mindfulness and willfulness, Mind-being and animal body-being, the self of metaphysics-substance and the anti-self of physics-appearances.
The difference unmistakable between the unthinking anatomy of Freudian body-idolatry and the composition of insights that identify self with reflection, introspection, differentiation, analysis, conscience and independent judgment. The attributes of Mind choosing freely. The qualities of sovereign individuality and creative originality affirmed by the metaphysics of the Course but missing from Freudian psychoanalytics grounded in physiology.
The sucker born every day
The upper-enumerator side of personality type fraction is the integrity of whole-person character competent to differentiate, analyze, and choose rationally. Without its corruption by willfulness in Reality but readily corrupted in its reverse or virtual state: unreality.
By the denominator of fraction whose function is to divide the enumerator and produce a value or function. Revealed by its virtual success in unreality to be the sword of status quo’s resistance to change. The antithesis of Worth. Sapiens’ unhappy camper protesting its disturbance with divisiveness. With disconnection, separation. Destined to be unreality’s albatross from the beginning to the end of its unreal time. The psychopath in human-ape’s face: Love’s unhappy camper.
The elements of play-acting distilled from religious and entertainment traditions and scripted into the personality of Elmer Gantry. The sinister blend of Bible-thumping spellbinder with the instincts of a pickpocket introduced into fiction by Sinclair Lewis a century ago. Characterization memorable for what it represented in America’s psyche then and now. The staple of farce: the sucker born every day being parted from his money.
Too Much and Never Enough
The being defined by its five senses on the underside of personality type is neither person nor human. Just animal. Body-sensing extraversion entitled to wildness without limits, freedom from order. To willfulness unrestrained by the boundaries of judgment. Gluttony at the trough, hogging everything without the pretense of moderation. Divine arrogance atop hierarchy demanding praise and gratitude from its captives below for royalty’s beneficence. “Gifts” from the immortal king of beasts, an animal, to its “creations”: human-animals.
Intended solely for its own and its animal kingdom’s preservation: mortality. Impotence and incompetence. Injustice, guilt, and punishment. The privilege of reciprocating with the “innocence” of tyranny: victimhood’s self-pity. Hypocrisy.
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What’s to account for it?
Identity at the end of a branding iron
The psychodynamic of disempowerment was Mind-Child self-unawareness missing awareness of its Relationship with its Parents Love-Logic, who could not be present in unreality together without making it Real. But not deprived of the possibility of becoming aware of the presence of boundaryless Love in unreality separated from Logic.
Making Mind-Child’s own Love-Self boundaryless like Love without Logic because deprived of the boundaries of Logic. Branding every human-herd with illogic.
Service to two masters
Self-unawareness that’s human-ape in its animal kingdom of unreality is Love-Abundance growing-sharing-evolving toward awareness of Self that’s Love. With Mind able to access Guidance from Love bonded with Logic-boundaries. With Definition. The source of awareness of who human-ape really is. With who we are as individuals.
Not Love alone but Love inseparable from Logic. Spontaneity-Creativity inseparable from boundaries-Order. Definable, and therefore functional. Belonging. The ideal of the whole person not compromised by serving two masters. By being divided. Split in two by its animal-willfulness opposite.
Stinkin’ thinkin’
Evolution motivated by Love seeks to re-unite with Logic by expanding human-ape’s awareness. By responding to its Who am I? with Who are you? Not to be elusive or withhold the answer but to quicken the source its seeker needs to find it. By questioning that requires Mind to gain practice with thinking.
The faculty whose disempowerment more than any other caused its self-delusion. The phenomenon that more than any other accounts for the collapse of common sense with election 2024. In the argot of addiction: “stinkin’ thinkin’”
The arsonist freed by speech
Status quo is the reverse image of the reflecting pond graced by a sprite, the voice of Love prompting its beholder’s mind to think. Its opposite the black lagoon’s creature luring suspicion besotted with conspiracy theory to its mirror. Reflecting the character of its beholder in the creature’s own image, contorted with guilt for the crime of character assassination, before assassinating it.
Free speech, like the second amendment, can be carried too far, beyond any resemblance to its original intent. No longer one miscreant yelling “fire!” in a theatre but millions enabled by misinformation technology to create pandemonium anywhere.
One nation, under God
The force of insanity that brought itself to power with election 2024.
- Promising to return human-ape from “one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all” to many warring tribes. Objects on a chess board to be manipulated by the dark lord of the underworld for his personal gain and amusement.
- The definer-in-chief who proposes to maintain order without the boundaries of Definition.
- The law-giver of lawlessness. A law unto himself secure on his throne of misinformation.
- The apotheosis of predatory license entrusted with responsibility for liberty and justice. The wolf in sheep’s clothing now to head the Department of Liberty. The fox ruling the chicken coop now to rule the Department of Justice.
X option one
Each human-ape is a fragment of what was once whole. An embodiment of the question posed by the fate of Humpty-Dumpty: how to put him back together again. Which apparently Humpty must figure out for himself since all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t do it.
Embodiments of Humpty’s first option: rescue by a savior. The concept of healing favored by sensory perception aiming forward in one direction with a single perspective. Crippled by its fear of a sixth sense that could conceive of any other option.
The revenant
Like Humpty’s using the mind he was entrusted with to use in situations like this. That call for learning. Where help is needed from another perspective to do what only he, Free Choice, can do for himself: figure out how to put himself back together again.
Starting with questioning what put him together in the first place and what could explain his coming apart. Imagining it to be a fall caused by gravity, an attribute of his material world, didn’t work. So there must another explanation. A matter of increasing urgency because continuing to function in fragments can’t be good if the perpetrator returns to finish the job. Which maybe it has.
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Where to start?
The futility of tit for tat
If Humpty’s structural integrity was undone by self-contradiction how does one contradict contradiction? By breaking apart breaking apart? By dividing the divider? Letting the divider on the underside of a fraction turn both sides into a divider so it won’t be a fraction anymore? So it can take credit for achieving wholeness by turning Definition on its head? For castrating integrity so human de-humanized can’t perform any function of Mind with character uncorrupted?
Built on a foundation of trust
Water is the medium for characterization by Self-Awareness helping with insights from intuition. The sprite beneath the surface of the reflecting pond, Loving Friendship, helping the beholder, a friend in the making, recognize itself by questioning it. By relating to it. Taking it into the confidence of Loving Kindness by building and earning trust. Undoing suspicion, the medium for mischaracterization. Resistance from the status quo by the act of taking apart.
The fatal flaw: willful thinking
The beast’s levers of “power” are its manipulations of flaws in the thinking, feeling, and psychology of one Mind self-unaware and split. The beast’s pose of strength and supremacy enabled not by any quality inherent in its character but by flaws in its captives’ character caused by misperception.
The fool soon parted from his money can’t shift responsibility onto his scammer when the fault lies with being a fool in the first place. Helping willfulness take advantage by manipulating the fool’s own willful thinking. His “fatal flaw.”
The pursuit of fairness
The abuse of Sapiens’ advantage, the array of mental faculties that enable it to make sense of itself and its circumstances, physical and metaphysical, that no other animal possesses. Enabling it to establish its vaunted dominion over nature and assume its place at the top of the food chain. But much less a demonstration of intellect than being better at using tools. At seeing the utility of material objects rather than the utility of Mind and its thinking that put them there.
The failure of Sapiens’ thinking to wean itself away from the predatory instinct of an animal because of one misperception: that its mind is but an enlargement of an animal brain hard-wired into hierarchy. It is not. Its long pursuit of harmony in human-ape relationships with leveling ideologies proves it. Something in human-ape’s psyche insists on fairness and won’t take no for an answer. The driving force behind every election promising “change” including this one. Election 2024, once more an attempt at fairness but this time singularly inept. Illogical, self-defeating, and dangerously wrong.
Another order of change
The suggestions for fixing what’s broken that follow will seem useless at first glance for being impossibly idealistic. Ideas that belong anywhere but in a manual for winning a political street fight. When the truth may be that they’re indispensable. Because the laboratory that gave us Frankenstein’s monster is the culture of willful thinking and fear inherited from human-ape’s animal kingdom of ass-kissing hierarchy. From tribal herd mentality that makes a mockery of Sapiens’ so-called primacy. Governance and dominion over nature so incompetent that “Anthropocene” will be synonymous with “mass extinction.”
Conditions that don’t call for subduing the monster with popguns but for fundamental change in the way human-ape thinks. In the way that Sapiens uses its extraordinary mental faculties to solve problems. Not by corner-cutting. Not by picking up the narrative somewhere in the middle but for going back to the beginning. Because that’s where the problem lies. A call for getting it right by doing it right. From the bottom up in logical sequence, one step at a time. Aligning with the way things are instead of demanding that they be what a willful two-year-old wants them to be.
A start toward fixing what’s broken
The suggestions that follow take aim at critical mental flaws propping up a culture of self-centered infantile arrogance and fear. Sapiens’ perversion of ape-world hierarchy responsible for this monster and every other one known to history. This one “strength” hoping to be recognized as the heir-apparent of Adolf Hitler, the apogee of human-ape evolution in reverse. The master will of terror. The means by which election 2024’s monster intends to consolidate and wield unlimited power.
X suspicion. Trust enables the beholder freed from suspicion to do its part for Sapiens’ cause: by learning how to free itself from the distractions of self-unawareness in its magic kingdom of hierarchy. So it can help the dream’s dreamer, the one Mind-Child, correct its mistakes in logical sequence, one at a time.
X “savior” Starting with letting go of the idea of “savior.” By understanding that in loving friendship with Guidance from Definition, Choice will free itself. By taking back responsibility and accountability for consequences willed by magic into a lurid image of guilt, sacrifice, and victimhood on a cross.
X “self” as “tribe.” Let go of ape’s prehistoric imperative of safety and survival in “self” defined as “society,” “group,” or “tribe.” An obstruction to restoration of Self-Awareness that can only be achieved by the whole person thinking, feeling, and choosing with the integrity of independent judgement. With conscience instead of Machiavellian expedience, the “morality” of tribe.
The gift of Sapiens’ mind different from ape-brain is the gift of individuality, originality, creativity, conscience, and service. Not to be wasted on mindless conformity for the sake of tribal supremacy.
X body idolatry. Be done with body idolatry. The idea inferred from sensory perception of matter over Mind. That material objects have no need of Mind or ideas to produce them. That what can’t be detected physically can be safely ignored. Professional bias propagated by physics’ marketing genius, Stephen Hawking, buried between Newton and Darwin spinning in their graves.
X “kingdom” Jesus offered himself as brother and friend. As an equal with a perspective worth sharing rather than supremacy in any form. Had he done otherwise he would have reinforced the manipulations of willfulness, intent not on service and support but on authoritarian dominance. The antithesis of the ideal of Loving Friendship at the heart of Creation.
Mischaracterization embedded in the culture of animal hierarchy by “kingdom.” One of countless misnomers by which imposture deceives its flock and keeps Jesus the shepherd nailed to his cross. Inserted into Jesus’ story to legitimize tribal authority beyond question. Less concerned with hearing the voice of Relatability than with excuses for silencing it.
X “God” Let go of the idea that Guidance to be trusted must come from hierarchy’s “supreme being.” From “God,” another misnomer passed down by the dead hand of human-ape’s past. Better replaced by “Mind-Relationship” for the truth that its evolution began with the spontaneous combining of its two central functions: Love with Logic. Ensuring that the ideal embedded in Creation’s living constitution would be Loving Friendship rather than the willfulness of a one-sided tribal animal.
X ass-kissing. Supremacy implies hierarchy where passage from lower to higher requires character-debasing, integrity-compromising genuflection. Ass-kissing. Ape-etiquette in its kingdom of hierarchy and self-unawareness but no behavior befitting Sapiens evolving toward Self-Awareness.
A contradiction of self-governance designed for support and service to those doing the creative work and play of Creation. The ideal by which Lincoln sought to give meaning to slaughter at Gettysburg. The eternal flame that election 2024 has replaced with smoke and mirrors.