the day after
well, the people have spoken, and i think what they've said is: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO NOT THINK CRITICALLY.
or maybe: i'm voting for the guy who'll let me have a gun so i can shoot myself in the foot!
or: gay marriage is WRONG and michael moore is FAT.
i would much rather have had some wacky ambien*-induced misadventure on halloween than trauma on election day or the day after. is it too late to trade? i'll be happy to take a bad trip for the cause.
diagonal sheets of rain have just started pouring down, fittingly enough. got any soup pots i could borrow in about 20 minutes when the roof starts leaking? –och, thunder. the gods are also displeased.
*did you notice their ads last night on CBS, offering free samples? they knew lots of people would be losing sleep last night (and for the next four years or so).
or maybe: i'm voting for the guy who'll let me have a gun so i can shoot myself in the foot!
or: gay marriage is WRONG and michael moore is FAT.
i would much rather have had some wacky ambien*-induced misadventure on halloween than trauma on election day or the day after. is it too late to trade? i'll be happy to take a bad trip for the cause.
diagonal sheets of rain have just started pouring down, fittingly enough. got any soup pots i could borrow in about 20 minutes when the roof starts leaking? –och, thunder. the gods are also displeased.
*did you notice their ads last night on CBS, offering free samples? they knew lots of people would be losing sleep last night (and for the next four years or so).
posted by a wandering eye at 4:42 PM
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that which is obvious to each of us is never obvious to all of us. hegel called it the dialectic. the ancients in china referred to it as yin and yang...
all things have opposite aspects that are concurrently interdependent, unified, and in conflict. no aspect can exist without its opposite, no matter how extreme the domination of one over the other...
each has its turn to expand while the other contracts, hitting a new and different extreme and then falling back into balance. and when they pass through their equilibrium, they continue, heading to a new and different extreme...
the opposite aspects seem angry and in battle but they are not. the aspects are compliments and one cannot exist without the other. if one aspect is destroyed, it will be replaced or both shall cease to exist. each aspect and neither aspect is good and bad...
in the affairs of our species, we can only embrace our opposites and await their moment of imbalance and our new opportunity to lead. they will attempt to lead us to their extremes and we will attempt to lead them to ours. and neither will really ever make it...
there is always the possibility that we will make the mortal error for all of our species before we can possibly see its coming. that won't mean much to nature, though. her awesome harmony and balance will continue long after we make our fatal judgments and our final actions...
no, i am not pleased by this day's events (except for the thunder over the mountain). but we do need to put this and the next four years into perspective...
we need to put all things into their proper perspective. what goes around will eventually come around...
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