Descent

Oh no!

- cry believers while hypocrites cheer -

How?!

- shriek followers while loyalists exult -

What happened?!

- wail zealots while stupids triumph -

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As if -

- we are believers and others are hypocrites -

- we are followers and others are loyalists -

- we are zealots and others are stupids -

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As if -

- we are faultless -

- we are blameless -

- because -

- our side is faultless -

- our side is blameless -

Whilst -

- others are at irrefutable fault -

- others are indisputably responsible -

- for -

- nothing less than the demise of all -

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After all -

- our gender, our income, our religion, our education, our melanin -

- is superior -

- to their inferior gender, their inferior income, their inferior religion, their inferior education, their inferior melanin -

- that merit not -

- that uplift, that elevation, that advancement of us above all - so special, so extraordinary, so deserving are we - of unearned privilege, unearned entitlement, unearned advantage - nay - counterfeit legitimacy won by merciless pursuit of greed and self interest - at the expense of mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber, etc. for all -

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After all -

- our choice, our decided, our side -

- is right -

- their choice, their decided, their side -

- is wrong -

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And -

- is it not true -

- that though no one of us is infallible -

- believing -

- this truth is not true -

- makes believing this lie - right, just, moral - ?

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So -

- we determine and judge - the truths of others - per - the lie of our infallibility -

Until -

- that brush with which we paint others -

- devolves into that brush we resent - bitterly, hatefully -

- applied to us - to paint us -

- with swaths of ignorance, intolerance, determinism - that justify such judging of books by covers - such judging of us (per superfice, per artifice) as inexorably, as facilely, as infallibly as others are judged by us -

- as just -

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As if -

- categories of determinism - are unequivocal and true -

- because such categories are -

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As if -

- arbitrary, nay superficial - labels, boxes - are valid, nay veracious - as reductive prisons of ignorance masquerading as legitimate 'sciences' of 'facts' and sanctified 'religions' of 'truths' -

- per make believe - imaginary infallibility -

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As if -

- hypocrisy is defensible -

- per our righteousness, our sanctimony, our conceit - our indignation -

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For -

- our cry, our shriek, our wail -

- are profound expressions of our conviction, our devotion, our loyalty -

- to -

- our totalitarianism - our autocracy - our ruthless determinism -

- in the name of the only heroes in our stories, his stories, her stories - that matter -

- me me me -

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Oh how the brush is painting reality - !

Until -

- belief is transformed to fact - !

- hocus pocus is transformed to science - !

- lie is transformed to history - !

Oh how aphotism rampant - thrives upon greed and ignorance - !

Until -

- yesterday suits the script of greed -

- and -

- tomorrow suits the script of ignorance -

- and -

- today is our descent into the pitch of the Era of The Blameless - !

Oh how the brush is painting us - 

- with lies of determinism masquerading as truths that are but prisons of our own making - !

- M.

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See also Hypocrisy Is the Sword of the Indignant (tvfs)

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Note

Think - before you blindly believe the bullshit being spread like so much butter -

- much less the fear -

- the helplessness -

- the powerlessness -

- the rage -

- that serve agendas of greed and ignorance - now as ever -

- for crows who feast on war - leave not their fattening and profiteering - to chance -

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Think -

- lest you forswear thought and forsake action -

- and surrender -

- to lies pretending to truth -

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Descent - is a fact of life -

Dissent - is a fact of truth -

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Challenge - Question - Doubt -

- the incontestable - the irrefutable - the indisputable -

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(Bearing in mind that - dissent and challenge - sans meaning - is - zealotry and stupidity sans worth - for blind 'revolution' is no less lie than pretense of humility -)

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Obfuscations -

- so stupefyingly staged - by stakeholders and props and liars extaordinaire of Pretzel Land and beyond -

- are no less lies - now as ever -

- than -

- profiteers pretending to serve as lawmakers - 

- lawmakers pretending to genuine as props - 

- props pretending to expertise as omniscient - 

- omniscient pretending to unerr as human - 

- (and so on and so forth, ad perpetuum) -

- are selling all of us - that future stitched with that Emperor's New Thread - (that differs naught from that other New Thread spun from that other Emperor's promises, promises, promises) -

- that - so vile, so reprehensible, so despicable - yesterday -

- is - admirable, laudable, sacrosanct - today -

- by surreal virtue of nothing more than that deliberate aphotism and that vigilant ignorance that no more transforms bullshit into truth than the corrupt into the incorruptible -

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(Verily - despots racing to win - no more instantaneously and miraculously - evolve - into estimable exemplars of honor - by mere virtue of winning - than magnanimous exemplars of grace - by sheer result of losing - 

- for despots rarely eschew wolfdom for sheepdom - except as pretense for ego and hubris keen to advance greed and self interest at the expense of integrity and shame -)

- M.