Into the Beast
Inspirational
This ... refers to no beast in Particular.
The world has gone mad - as is written in the Book - and those that are still lucid enough to
hear this, should be able to check this out.
I mean - I have no clue how this is supposed to work. I have no Plan, nor do I see how a Plan might look like.
I can think in Organizatory Terms. To think towards a goal and figure out how to get there. And between odds and
certainties there's sometimes more and sometimes less room for speculation.
So, I was made aware of a bit of a Blindspot of mine. That is ... we all have it; And it shall be my first duty
to tell you all about it that I can.
But for context: I had to think more and more about my Past lately. Also, I felt more and more stuff from my past
to sink back into my consciousness. But I do so with a new, modernized, updated perspective. So, whatever that past
mind of mine was up about is one thing. That led to this and that and so I would ultimately be here today. And what
I feel are aspects of that self that align with me today. But ... it's not a simple thing. Not a simple thing to
grasp. What you think that is, might be wrong. I know there's a shallow way of reading it - though some might call
it obvious or logical or whateverical. They might even insists that it's the only reasonable interpretation. But if
you only know one where the rest is all a huge conspiracy out to get you - you don't have a lot to go on.
And by 'go' I mean ... where we can walk together. Where we can come together - as to have a mutual understanding of
the world. Where we can navigate it in cooperation.
So, by "Tiger & Dragon" for instance, I would think about the movie - Tigers and Dragons being two Creatures
that have always resonated with me. As a Kid I was drawing Dragons and Dinosaurs, while later I found Tigers to be
the most majestic animals there are. So, whatever I was driven by that would make me want to tattoo tiger stripes
and dragon scales on either of my arms respectively, that ... was back then. A part of me. Now I get to look back;
And it looks like I thus far have - in that regard - practically "lived under the Sign of the Dragon". What sinks
back in are things I would count into the aspect of the Tiger - like my White Dragon (Tiger Themed) Fantasy Creature.
An Imagination. Fiction. And it's like a part of me that had been lost.
Anyway. I also got to take a few looks around in me - in the past - the recent past - and I see young people. And
one thing I do see in common is a certain stubbornness. I also find it in myself. And I think what older generations
have to understand is, that when it comes to self-expression we're now in the branches of the tree, we might say.
Where human development is a tree. So, there are roots, then there's the stem - where self-expression was secondary
to survival - and now we're in the branches. That means, that there are a lot more things that our minds can latch
onto; And whatever it does latch onto, it integrates into it's identity. Some of those things stay and others not
so much.
Funny. Maybe.
Well - me thinking back, remembering, it made me aware that I didn't do that all that much. I tried to look forward,
or onto whatever instead. But not back. I "slithered" through life, pursuing whatever my heart was burning for.
We might say - "think about the Future!" - and different people have different ideas of what matters there. We all
do care about it, that's the thing. But while some care about Ecology, others care about Economy. Some care about
Nature, others care about whatever the current thing is. Be it Anime or Gossip or "Style" ... whatever.
So, we are at a critical stage. Culturally. All this diversity ... has somehow gone sour. We are torn inside, as
people wield the sword of the heterodoxy. We might call it a part of the stem - where a heteronormative culture
maintains heteronormative gender models that roughly encode a model of sexual attraction.
And given how rape is pervasive "even in strictly heteronormative cultures" - there isn't much of a moral component
to this blanket fact.
Even moreso: Wherever one human being suppresses another human being - there is an injustice in play. If it were
justice, an injustice had to precede it, for it to be just.
Anyway ...