Dead in the streets.
I left the “United” States of America over 10 years ago. I felt a sort of drift toward anger, the same anger that has always been present in Berlin based on my experience. Impotent rage at barely understood wrongness which permeates everything but shows itself nowhere. It’s certainly shown itself since then. The notion that righteous anger breeds righteous anger. Your hate gives a platform to someone else’s fear. It’s about communication avoided about the undefined other. The bad and evil other who cannot possibly have a point and can only be target of extermination.
I think Germany has a sort of cyclical desire to package everything in an attempt at understanding. At seeing through illusion toward facts that should be obvious to all. But as a matter of fact NOTHING is obvious. No one is the one dimensional caricature we would like them to be, for our world-image to come into greater resolution. To act as foundation for our righteous action.
Generalized wisdom is all there is in the public sphere, superficial notions to some, but true if applied with honesty and rigor. That said true knowledge comes from experience and there is no way around that. So no matter the wisdoms, there wont be truth until we reach the core of a person. And doing so is unarguably going too far for the most part. The things that would show you this core are not to be considered, the voluntary surrender of it is suspect, always. We are ego and self preservation and fear. It is what inspires our greatness and what kills it.
So when Yoda says: Fear begets Anger and Anger begets the “Darkside”. You can chuckle at how obvious it is or you can let it sink and find how true it is; but what does that help? What does subtle truth do in front of those who have killed truth in order to rage with impunity. What good is planing for the future in front of the chaos of now. What can be sustainable in the face of abject un-sustainability.
I think in the end if we want to save the world from our own home made entropy, we have to chose stasis. But action is needed, and so we must abandon truth and empathy for the facts of now. For the possibility of tomorrow. Because there cannot be organic growth in front of the Fascist Gardeners who seek to detain nature as a whole.
I feel helpless.
Rest in peace. Wake in War.
I hope not, I hope not, I hope.
In reaction to death and protests in the US… not my place to comment. But there is a limit to silent suffering. Before it loudly bursts into reality. GET IT OF YOUR CHEST… 26 2 26