Unravelling the Fictions of Isms

Preface

Oh! Where! The brave among us! Yea! Unravel fictions that obfuscate the truth!

Alas! The brave! Silent! While hearken among fools! Upheld! Isms anew!

Oh! Fools! Turnt by ignorance! Seduced by absolutes! Fey tyranny!

But! The light of truth! For sakes! Vanished! Vanquished 'fore hatred of ever!

Alas! The isle of soul! Illusory utopia of homogeneous myopia! No sun rises! There!

'Fore isle of darkness! Ever shadow! Night of day severed from morrow!

Isms FOR - and - Isms AGAINST -

Are - BOTH - Isms

In the end - isms serve ignorance - intolerance - hatred -

isms - do not - serve truth -

EVER -

nor - do isms serve - justice -

EVER -

For - isms for - no more transforms isms into nobilities - than isms against transform isms into legitimacies -

In very deed -

this is but the transformation of the catastrophically immoral stance of ends justifying the means - via isms -

Is it not -?

Yet - no ends justifies any means that reduces our humanity - into isms -

REGARDLESS -

of whether our ism is for -

or - whether our ism is against -

of whether their ism is for -

or - whether their ism is against -

For isms are lens that NEVER see truth nor justice -

as evidenced -

by eons of failed truth and failed justice - via policies, theologies, ideologies, dogmas, mores, norms, institutions, systems, governments, societies, etc. - crafted via lens vis a vis isms -

There fore -

in so far and in as much -

as - truth and justice - matter more - than - ignorance intolerance hatred -

that - humanity - matters more - than - ends - 

should we not eschew isms as false saviors - incapable of saving any one - much less all of us - ?

Myths of 'Good' Isms

There are so many myths of 'good' isms - the most endemic - being:

to avoid the horrors executed in the names of isms past - we must endlessly relive and revive atrocities - through a million and one per mutations - via histories and documentaries and arts and inspirations - told through the lens - of isms -

and -

to scaffold the psyches of wounds inherited through generations - we must endlessly strive to buttress the lives and the well-beings of those wounded - overtly and indirectly - institutionally and microscopically - by isms past and isms future - via extraordinary dispensations - through the lens - of isms -

regardless -

of context and nuance -

perspective -

mercy and forgiveness -

mutuality -

and -

the paradox of fixing (eradicating) isms by perpetuating (instituting) isms -

(among many others) -

Isms Are Lens -

We Create

We can't see -

what isn't there -

But -

if - the lens by which we see -

is - our creation -

then -

what do we see - ?

The Truth - ? Or -

a reality we define vis a vis lens we create - ?

If - the lens by which we see -

is - our creation -

or - their creation -

then -

what reality - do we see - ? do they see - ?

Is it not possible - that if we trade our lens - for the lens of an other - we might see a reality that differs from our own - ? Is it not possible - that if they trade their lens - for the lens of ours - they might see a reality that differs from their own - ?

Therefore -

is it not possible - that - by creating lens by which we see - we also create realities - that differ - between our selves and each other and between us and them - ?

Verily -

is it not also possible - a reality that is - lens free - is truer - than a reality experienced vis a vis lens of our creation - ?

What if - the lens by which we see -

is - none other - than - our isms for and our isms against - ?

What if - this - is - what we see - ?

What if - the lens by which others see -

is - none other - than - their isms for and their isms against - ?

What if - this - is - what they see - ?

If so -

are we really so different - from them - than them - after all ?

Are we not -

doing the same - ?

By creating lens by which we see -

we see -

not through lens that are ism free -

but through lens - that are isms -

Therefore -

are lens of our creation -

ever good - or just - ?

Moreover -

are lens that are isms -

ever valid - or legitimate - ?

In very deed -

are not all lens and all isms - fraught with solipsistic specificity - ? that reference - not THE reality nor THE truth - but a singular reality and a singular truth - of one not all - ?

Hence -

when this is the measure of reference - and history - and science - and data (collection, aggregation, analysis) -

when this is the measure of reality - and truth -

when this is the metric - the rubric - the parameters - the defining point - of policies, theologies, ideologies, dogmas, mores, norms, institutions, systems, governments, societies, etc. -

when this is unimpeachable - immutable - irrefutable - sacrosanct -

how - exactly - is truth and justice - served - by this -

lens - ?

Much less - this -

sight - ?

Instead -

to the extent that isms serve - ignorance - intolerance - hatred - first and foremost -

and - to the extent that - humanity - matters more than - ends - ever and always -

is it not possible -

that the only path - from ism to truth and justice -

is the path absent of ism - ?

Truth and Justice -

Are Ism Free

Via our agendas to better our world - to avoid reliving the consequences of isms rampant and unchecked - verily horrors - to prevent the tyrannies of isms perpetuated within institutions and systems - verily atrocities -

how exactly -

does - constructing institution by institution - justifying law by law - legitimizing anecdote by anecdote - via and vis a vis - defending here, there, every where - isms for and isms against - isms of ours and isms of theirs - etc. etc. -

fix - much less eradicate - isms - ?

In fact -

does not such vehemently scaffolded and fortily buttressed monstrosities of suspect actualization - further entrench and endemify - further endorse and maintain - if not intensify and amplify and magnify -

isms - ?

For isms -

make allowances for - context and nuance - perspective - mercy and forgiveness - mutuality -

on the basis of exceptions and exceptions alone vis a vis extraordinary burdens of proof of exceptionalities and exceptionalities alone -

while maintaining rigid absolutes -

including -

that -

ends matter more than humanity -

ignorance - intolerance - hatred - in the name of isms - serve the righteous - the unimpeachable - the inviolable -

my ends via my isms - are just - (likewise - the corollary) -

the lens of my creation - is the truth - the whole truth - the one and only truth -

truth and justice - is truth and justice - if and only if - such truth and such justice - serves me and my ends via my lens and my isms -

etc. etc. -

Yet -

what truth - what justice - is this - ?

Is this - not - in fact - the 'truth' and the 'justice' - of despotism and tyranny - ? transformed to sate and fulfill the egregiousness of unbridled ego and hubris - ?

That - the ends always justify the means - ?

For do not despots and tyrants - always - assert the rightfulness and legitimacy - of absolutism vis a vis absolute autocracies - ? Except - of course - with respect to their selves - who need not be just - in order to claim such an epithet - ? And - their acts - which need not be just - in order to be 'justified' - ?

That - solipsistic specificity is - never - myopic narcissism - ?

For do not despots and tyrants - ever - assert the validity and sanctity - of reducing the humanity of all human kind - ? Except - of course - with respect to their selves - who need not be champions of humanity - in order to claim the epithet 'humanitarian' - ? And - their acts - which need not be sacrosanct - in order to be 'sanctified' - ?

Therefore -

Truth - and - Justice -

removed from the stalwart commandment and unswervingly necessary condition - to resist per mutations vis a vis isms -

ultimately devolves into injustice - pursuant to fictions of isms -

and -

advocates of such truth and such justice -

removed from the stalwart commandment and unswerving necessary condition - to uphold Truth and pursue Justice - sans isms -

ultimately devolve into despots - who perpetuate tyrannies of isms -

such that -

ever and always -

one ism oppresses an other - until the other oppresses the one - and the corollary and vice versa and the reverse - in cycles that never cease - because devisers of lens of isms eschew disavowing the fictions of isms -

including -

that -

truth and justice for some - is more noble - than truth and justice for all -

Verily -

regardless of how an ism is defended - justified - legitimized - sanctified - or nobilified -

an ism is an ism -

and isms for and isms against -

are always and for ever -

isms for hatred and isms against mutuality.

Note

- Preface - is a poem I composed for this post - Isle Unravelling - 8/2/16 -

- 'fortily' (in Truth and Justice Are Ism Free) - is a word I derived from 'fortis' (Latin) - another variant I use, is 'fort' (adj) - 

- 'endemify' (in Truth and Justice Are Ism Free) - is a word I derived from 'endemic' - it is not 'indemnify' - (note - 'endemic' as I use it here and elsewhere - lacks an accurate definition via most (if not all) online dictionaries -)

- etc. etc. -

- M

More

Context and nuance -

perspective -

mercy and forgiveness -

and -

mutuality -

have long since given way -

to ends justifying means -

lens -

and -

isms -

However -

even so -

truth and justice - informed by - context and nuance - perspective - mercy and forgiveness - and - mutuality - is, has been, will be - ever more true and ever more just - than the utterly indefensible - unjust - abhorrent fictions of isms - upheld by tyrants of 'truth' and 'justice' who are but farces of real champions of real truth and real justice -

Agendas of lies - that seek to pervert policies, theologies, ideologies, dogmas, mores, norms, institutions, systems, governments, societies, etc. - for some and against others - serve no cause - of nobility - much less - of legitimacy -

For truth and justice is truth and justice - sans lens - sans isms - sans agendas of lies - sans fictions of isms -

and truth and justice and mercy and forgiveness and hope and mutuality - will prevail - for all kind - every kind - across every granverse - every where - every when - so long as -

the isle unravelling - stands - for novus societas mutuorum - for all -

- M

Addendum

It is too easy -

too convenient - by far -

that -

we insist - nay demand - that - next time - next year - next century - next eon -

is the time for change -

that - now - is the time - to stay the course -

blindly and stead fastly -

because we must -

because events necessitate our course - (personal, social, political, economic, local, national, world, etc.) -

because the alternative(s) is(are) - too terrible, too monstrous, too inconceivable -

But -

every one of these 'reasons' - are - verily -

rationalizations -

excuses -

justifications -

to not change -

to not eschew ignorance and intolerance and hatred -

to not chart a course towards novus societas - mutuorum - totorum -

to -

keep drumming on drums of war - expecting peace -

to -

keep endorsing discord - expecting unity -

to -

keep pointing fingers at every else but our selves - expecting every else to shoulder all the blame and all the responsibility for change -

to -

keep attacking every other and every them - expecting every other and every them to repudiate their defenses, to surrender, to sacrifice every thing and more for peace -

while -

we -

rationalize - excuse - defend - justify - legitimize - sanctify - nobilify -

all we do -

incite rancor - elevate hatred - inflame enmity - weaponize narcissism - preach fear -

for our ends for our isms for our lies for our fictions -

because -

we are the righteous - the unimpeachable - the inviolable -

therefore -

our ends via our isms - are just -

because -

the lens of our creation - is the truth - the whole truth - the one and only truth -

for -

we matter more than all of humankind -

To insist - nay demand -

that - tomorrow - is the time for change -

is to condone - horrors and atrocities - in the name of and on behalf of - our ends via our isms - today -

Until -

the isle unravelling stands - for all are one -

us - one - them - one - all - one -

as interchangeable as reciprocal as mutual as pawns on a vast chessboard the breadth of the granverse - aequum qua mutuus - vivere qua mutuus - liber qua mutuus -

this age -

will continue to be the Age of Fear -

and - peace - will continue to be the promise of a lightless morrow -

for without peace today - there is no peace tomorrow -

In very deed -

'fore isle of darkness - ever shadow - night of day severed from morrow -

- M