CONFUSORY ISOLATION EX THE VIA ET VERITAS ET VITA




 “Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self contradictory rules. Just because we do not exist apart from the community, the community is able to convince us that we do--that each one of us is an independent source of action with a mind of its own. The more successfully the community implants this feeling, the more trouble it has in getting the individual to cooperate, with the result that children raised in such an environment are almost permanently confused.” ~Alan Watts in “The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are"



I'm sure that this multiverse of bloggishness will likely go the way of the 13-part Myspace interelated creative Personas that I spent so much time with, a few years back, but were 'lost' to the ether, as Myspace devolved into the advertising miasma that it eventuall became...and is, today........But, why not, it's boring as dry toast with mustard spread, otherwise.....Or, maybe I should just write another book, bound in Moroccan leather, with gilt-end handmade paper...then burn it in a big green egg cooker.......It's the Process, after all that gets one from the vagueries of randomness to meaningfull tranformation......Even ants can do it, with a little help from their friends......... and the weaver spider can do it without that....while cows just graze, little life in their eyes, yet....they make milk, don't they?




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