The Power of Peaceful Dissent

The oft delivered commandment - from pulpits to lecterns, from soap boxes to platforms - is the following:

Vote. 

Your vote - matters.

If you don't exercise your vote - you throw away your voice. 

Even if no candidate appeals to you - it is still your civic duty - to vote. To not vote - is a failure of your civic duty.

Even if you do not vote for a candidate - but, rather, vote against a candidate - it is still your human responsibility - to vote. To not vote - is a failure of your humanity.

Your vote - is the exercise of your moral conscience. To not vote - is unconscionable. 

Vote.

But -

Let's look at these commandments -

Let's see - if by doing so - it becomes clear - that there is an alternative -

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The Hypocrisy of Commandments to Vote

I. Your vote - matters.

In a Democracy - our vote matters - absolutely -

In a Republic - our vote does not elect (i.e. the next President) - instead, our vote elects representatives -

Though these representatives are under an implied imperative - constitutionally and morally - to represent us when they cast their votes (i.e. for the next President of the United States) - these representatives have long since eschewed any imperative - constitutional, moral, or otherwise - to vote by our duty, our responsibility, our moral conscience -

Rather - we - vote for representatives - who subsequently vote as voters independent of their responsibility and obligation to represent any voter - except - them selves -

Because - at the end of the day - this is - how Republics overtly and explicitly protect governments (and societies) from Democracies run by 'mobs of populism' - (so to speak) -

However - this is also - how Republics fail - (as well as representative Democracies) -

By eschewing our will -

The will of our representatives - whose interests may differ - vastly - from our interests and our will - may transform a government for the people - into a government for a small minority -

Verily - this - is how the framework of our national government - has devolved into a framework for protecting the interests of crats (aristocrats, plutocrats, autocrats, technocrats) over nots (not aristocrats, not plutocrats, not autocrats, not technocrats) - despite vehemently attested protections ostensibly afforded by the institution of a Republic over a Democracy -

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II. If you don't exercise your vote - you throw away your voice.

Since - our vote elects a representative, or a mouthpiece, if you will - who is under no obligation (per se, per above) to align with our will, much less our voice (i.e. for the next President) - this commandment clashes with reality - first and foremost - not only of our national election (i.e. for the next President) - but also - the reality of mouthpieces who demonstrably, consistently, predictably align too often with the interests of crats over nots -

Indeed - our vote as our voice - is true in a Republic - only if - our representative as our mouthpiece - resolutely, resoundingly, tirelessly - represents our voice -

If our vote - elects a representative - who voices its self and its voice - rather than our self and our voice -

how exactly - is this vote - our voice - ?

Whether we vote or not - it is not voting itself - that throws away our voice or not - rather - it is our representatives - that throw away our voice - by usurping our voice for its own -

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III. Even if no candidate appeals to you - it is still your civic duty - to vote. To not vote - is a failure of your civic duty.

Though - not voting - is a failure of civic duty -

This commandment pits two competing civic duties - side by side - and hoists one higher than the other - without articulating legitimate grounds for doing so -

For though one civic duty is to vote - another is to elect a government that serves our interests and our will - as people and as citizens -

We are under no constitutional nor moral obligation whatsoever - to elect a government that repeatedly, demonstrably, intractably aligns too often with the interests of crats over nots -

For such a government is not a government for the people - such a government is a government for a small minority - whose interests too often scaffold social, economic, and political systems and institutions that perpetuate the interests and the will of crats - too often - at the expense of nots -

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IV. Even if you do not vote for a candidate - but, rather, vote against a candidate - it is still your human responsibility - to vote. To not vote - is a failure of your humanity.

Not voting - is only a failure of human responsibility - inasmuch - as government is a human responsibility - therefore - participation in government (i.e. via voting) is a human responsibility -

However - as with above - this commandment pits competing human responsibilities - side by side - and hoists one higher than others - without articulating reasonable grounds for doing so -

For though government is one human responsibility - another - is to pursue - freedom, liberty, equality, justice, mercy, compassion, peace, unity -

Therefore - by what right - do candidates who do not represent - the interests nor the will - of freedom, liberty, equality, justice, mercy, compassion, peace, unity - for all people, for all citizens, for all kind - deserve - a vote for -

For - no matter how it is explained, much less advocated - a vote for - is a vote for - no matter why - a vote was cast - even if a vote was cast - as a vote against another candidate -

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V. Your vote - is the exercise of your moral conscience. To not vote - is unconscionable.

As with above - this commandment pits competing moral imperatives - side by side - and hoists one higher than others - without articulating valid grounds for doing so -

Not least because moral conscience is exactly what is lacking in far too many candidates for far too many political offices across this great land and this wondrous granverse -

Nevertheless - with respect to a moral imperative to vote - such a commandment relies on an assumption of the immorality of not voting -

Which - certainly poses the question -

What about the immorality of voting contrary to moral imperative - ?

Verily -

Are we not all possessed of the natural intrinsic moral imperative to vote for governments guided by virtuous moral fiber - ? For are not governments guided by unvirtuous moral fiber - or immorality, if you will - governments driven by imperative contrary to the interests and the will of people and citizens - ? Moreover - are not representatives of such governments - who persistently maintain social, economic, and political poverty of morality - implicitly and explicitly - undeserving of our vote - on the grounds of moral conscience - ?

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The Alternative to Two Evils - Is Not the Lesser

The right to vote is a luxury.

For some. It is earned. With citizenship. And adulthood.

For others. It is disenfranchised. With crime. And punishment.

For far too many, the right to vote is a privilege. Awarded some. Denied others.

Nevertheless, the right to vote is also a ruse.

In so many ways beyond the obvious, the right to vote obfuscates the truth - of how our government works - who runs our government - and what interests and will our government serves -

By masking the real power of voting - and the real powerlessness of votes -

Behind a charade of plutocracies and oligarchies - masquerading as Democracy - (or enlightened Democracy, if you will, viz. masquerading as a Republic masquerading as a Democracy) -

If -

every. candidate. - is for the interests and will of plutocracies and oligarchies - who. is. the. alternative. - ?

If -

every. alternative. - is for plutocracies and oligarchies - what. is. the. alternative. - ?

Surely - ?

The. answer. is. not. - the lesser of two evils - ?

Really - ?

This - is what our right to vote - has devolved to - ?

The. right. to. elect. - the lesser of two evils - ?

Really - ?

This - is what the luxury and the privilege of our right to vote - is now reduced to - ?

The luxury and the privilege to elect representatives who. promise. Democracy. - but deliver. Plutocracy. and. Oligarchy. - ?

Is the power of our vote - so impotent, in fact - that no matter how we vote - our vote is for the interests and will of crats over nots - ? Is the power of our vote - so futile, in fact - that no matter who we vote for - no matter what we vote for - our votes are reduced to tacit compliance with social, economic, political systems and institutions - for crats by crats - ?

For does not - the real power to vote, the real power to enact laws, the real power to run a government - rest not within the hands of nots who vote - but crats who vote, crats who enact laws, crats who run governments - bereft of civility, bereft of humanity, bereft of morality - (for all intents and purposes) - ?

If -

every. alternative. - is evil - is the lesser - more civil, more humane, more moral - ?

Or -

is such grounds - for voting for evil - in fact - illegitimate - unreasonable - invalid - ?

Because -

no vote against a greater evil - mitigates - voting for evil - regardless of qualification as the lesser -

For -

a vote for evil - is - a vote for evil - !

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The Power of Peaceful Dissent

Underlying the commandments - delivered from pulpits to lecterns, from soap boxes to platforms - that fiercely urge - nay stridently demand - our vote -

Is the assumption - that not voting - itself - is not a choice of action -

Moreover - that not voting - itself - is a passive failure to act -

But -

Like not eating is a choice of action - for a hunger strike - like not working is a choice of action - for a labor strike - like not consuming is a choice of action for a boycott - like not moving is choice of action for a protest -

Not. Voting. Is. A. Choice. Of. Action.

It is the choice of dissent.

My dissent.

Of the hypocrisy of commandments to vote.

It is the choice for choice.

My choice. 

For though my choice via vote is reduced to inert utility via a government that serves the interests and the will of crats over nots - my choice via not voting is a choice that matters.

Not voting. Is. My voice.

A voice that cannot be denied by any representative.

For not voting is my action. Not the action of any representative of my stead or my behalf. Therefore. Not voting is my voice. Not the voice of any representative who usurps my voice with its own.

The power to not vote. Is wholly mine.

It cannot be stripped from me. With rhetoric that obfuscates the truth and robs me of my power to act - congruent with civic duty, human responsibility, and moral imperative -

It cannot be severed from my arsenal of action. By those seeking to justify their rightfulness - and establish a fabricated narrative - a mandate, if you will - to perpetuate, fortify, defend - legitimize, propagandize, nay, sanctify - the reign of crats over nots -

It cannot be denied me -

for if the power of dissent - if the power of choice - if the power of voice - if the power of action -

is denied me -

what is the alternative - ?

tacit compliance with plutocracy and oligarchy - ?

complicit cooperation - with social, economic, and political systems and institutions that persistently rob people and citizens of governments that serve the interests and will of all people, all citizens, all kind - ?

Verily -

When will virtue - matter more - than serving the interests and the will of the few over the interests and the will of all - ?

Indeed -

When will - freedom. liberty. equality. justice. mercy. compassion. peace. unity. - for all - matter enough - for all of us -

To step from the brink of division and unite as one people, one kind -

To set aside our petty grievances and immaterial differences and cleave under an ethos of duty and responsibility and conscience that encompasses that which is true - of all -

alas

silence and grace

but bring us so far

fortitude and courage

will wage the bloodless war

of

who should lead all

the riches and the rags
of

who should free all

of the tail that wags

for

to lead is to give

to serve to protect
to

lot especially all

dignity and respect

then

our lives of riches
then

our lives of rags

will no longer justify

the fat reign of haves

oh!

not by complicit consents

nor by tacit accords

will I faithfully idle

as crats prevail as lords

for

we are not nots

we are not haves

we are all kith and kin

'neath the skin we're in

thus

lest all forget

the truth of what is ours

the power of peace restores

what hate blindly devours

fin

Note (I)

section (I) above - conflates Republic and representative Democracy - since the commandment (I) itself - conflates Republic and representative Democracy - by implication and inference -

Note (II)

poem above modified from The Tail Wags Tyranny (tvfs) -

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More

In the raucous tempest of all the voices clamoring to be heard -

it is not surprising that it is near nigh impossible to hear -

the truth -

much less -

the advocacy of peace -

for the truth - and peace - do not cohere - to scripts of differences and divisions -

Indeed -

scripts of differences and divisions -

are often expelled forth from bullhorns of bluster and blather masquerading as truths -

as often - as expelled forth from bullhorns of hatred and intolerance and ignorance masquerading as sacrosanct righteousness -

In the end -

enmity solves no - social, economic, political ill -

for -

misanthropy destroys our wherewithal to relate to each other, see past that which trivially and superficially and immaterially divide us -

misanthropy robs us of our capacity to communicate with each other, negotiate collaboratively together, live amongst each other with respect and dignity -

verily -

lest our misanthropy harken an age of swords and pens - enslaved to truths upend -

let us not sow - seed by seed - within the very matter of the granverse -

let us not sew - stitch by stitch - within the very fabric of time immemorial -

every difference that divides us - has divided us - will divide us - 

every where - every when - as always ever so -

Instead -

let us embrace - a vision. a dream. a future.

of freedom. liberty. equality. justice. mercy. compassion. peace. unity.

for all - not a few -

Not by color. Nor creed. Nor nation. Nor gender. Nor religion. Nor sexuality. Nor ancestry. Nor education. Nor employment. Nor career. Nor family. Nor class. Nor status. Nor income. Nor zip code. Nor tribe. Nor history. Nor ability. Nor lack. Nor past. Nor transgression. Nor nobility. Nor conceit. Nor vanity. Nor award. Nor applause. Nor mark. Nor possession. Nor loss. Nor membership. Nor error. Nor fault. Nor disease. Nor affliction. Nor challenge. Nor misery. Nor accolade. Nor triumph. Nor title. Nor boundary. Nor label. Of. Any. Kind. 

Because -

freedom. liberty. equality. justice. mercy. compassion. peace. unity.

is - 

a vision. a dream. a future.

of all - for all -

Is it not - ?

Or -

is your solipsism such - is your narcissism such - is your greed such - is your avarice such -

that the only vision - that the only dream - that the only future - that matters -

is yours - ?

That the only freedom. That the only liberty. That the only equality. That the only justice. That the only mercy. That the only compassion. That the only peace. That the only unity.

that matters -

is yours and your kind via your label that divides you - from the community of - all of us and all kind across this granverse that scaffolds - all life - 

every who - every what - every where - every when - every how - every why -

semper et perpetuum - ?

- M.

The Myth of Information

The more you know... right... ?

Unless...

What you know... is... invented or fabricated or manufactured... by intention or accident or ignorance...

Even though... this... is propagated, disseminated, oft repeated... as right...

Or...

What you know... is... crafted or designed or contrived... to deceive, to distort, to lie...

Even though... this... is perpetuated, propagandized, oft upheld... as true...

Or...

What you know... is... inaccurate, incomplete, opinion... to sway, to argue, to persuade...

Even though... this... is called 'reporting', 'informing', 'educating'...

Or...

What you know... is... fictions, myths, artifacts...

Even though... this... is endorsed by 'experts', 'pundits', 'leaders'... as facts...

The myth of information is this:

Sometimes... the more you know... the less you know...

Sometimes... it's not how much you know... but how well you sustain skepticism, truthing, and question asking... in the face of relentless pressure to mindlessly accept 'experts' and 'authorities' with sightless listenless voiceless objectionless obedience.

Which isn't to say that all conspiracy theorists are correct... much less... that all of us should be conspiracy theorists... ! No more than it's to say... nothing is true... and everything is a lie... !

Instead... sometimes... more is more... sometimes less is more... sometimes... less is less... sometimes more is less...

Absolute attestations of... the more you know... belies the reality that much of the 'information' with which are are incessantly inundated on all fronts... is not 'information' at all...

Because... the less informative information is... the more 'information' satisfies every agenda but telling the truth...

For example: sound bytes for revenue generating clicks and/or views; sound bytes for sex appeal, consummative appeal, etc., to satisfy the demands of advertisers who use information dissemination to concurrently sell stuff; sound bytes for drama, incendiation, rabble rousing, goat getting, ratings, which increases the financial valuation of infotainment; etc.

Notwithstanding that sound bytes need not be separate from nor excluded from truthing... In fact, sound bytes can reduce complexity to facilitate comprehension of knottingly dense information... or to elucidate relevance between obscure information and real life implications to the real lives of information consumers... or to connect the dots between disparate points of diverse information to lighten a road map to knowledge or insight...

So...

Yes...

We live in a time of extraordinary access to information...

But...

We also live in a time of extraordinary preponderance of misinformation...

With diligence, vigor, and scrutiny...

Our wherewithal to discern the difference... or not... determines whether we are endemically misinformed by misinformation... or not...

Lest all information devolve to infotainment, at best... or propaganda, at worst... let's not believe...

everything we read...

everything we see...

everything we hear...

everything we're told...

much less... everything we're sold...

Like a spoonful of sugar can help us slog through the unpalatable realities of Sisyphean toil... a healthy dose of skepticism can help us slog through the saccharine misinformation masquerading as facts... in this oft vaunted age of so-called 'information' and 'knowledge'...

Addendum

Infotainment is so prevalent - that we've bastardized what information is - to suit our predilection for misinformation -

Indeed - information is - as often misinformation - as it is - real, truthful, factual knowledge -

Nevertheless - though information in the purest sense - is that which is real, truthful, factual knowledge - that which we deem so - is not - by any means whatsoever - infallible -

Case in point:

Though - according to 'research' - Zika has existed as a disease that has afflicted humans for deacades - it is only in recent history - that the relationship between Zika and birth defects - is being explored and publicly disseminated -

And - it is only in most recent history - that the relationship between Zika and birth defects - is being explored beyond microcephaly -

Notwithstanding - that though sexual transmission of Zika was established in recent history - it was only in most recent history - that the general public was advised of this method of disease transmission -

Meanwhile - the 'experts' most vocal in their dissent of Zika as a disease of concern to the general public - are those who attest to certainties based on knowledge that lacks meaningfully important research and data - on many fronts - that are only now visible - due to the extraordinary prevalence of impactful presentation and realization - that was not available to the known 'science' of Zika - before now -

In other words - it is only now - that we're examining Zika with a broader and more scrutinizing lens - because it is only now that reality has compelled us to acknowledge - what can no longer be denied:

Zika presents a complicated challenge for public health -

Because - not only does Zika present without symptoms in many exposed to the disease - disease transmission via sexual contact - has occurred - and therefore can occur during the absence of active symptoms -

Moreover - it is unconscionably irresponsible of 'pundits' and 'experts' to repeatedly focus on the lack of mortality of Zika - as a legitimate basis to deny its capacity to inflict extraordinary burdens on women and children - especially in regions with firm religious and government prohibitions on contraception and family planning -

For not only does such logic illustrate appalling apathy with respect to the human condition - but such logic also unnecessarily burdens women and children with religionism-based restrictions of access to health care that denies women and children services for which there is no moral justification - in our age of soul freedom -

For it is not only child-bearing women who are afflicted by the cascade of Zika - it is also children - from girls who are pregnant by voluntary sexual congress, to girls who are impregnated by incest, assault, rape, prostitution, sexual exploitation, sexual trafficking, to children born with conditions that exact extraordinary suffering in exchange for life at all costs -

Needless to say - only time will tell - if there are lasting effects of Zika among those whose lack of death by a disease derided as an 'inconsequential, rare, and barely felt annoyance' (ostensibly men and non child-bearing women) - justifies the callous ignorance of many, including 'experts' and 'pundits' - to discredit, dismiss, and ridicule - the intensity with which humanitarians are pleading for aid to alleviate the agony and despair that is truly real for those for whom Zika's lack of mortality hardly mitigates the true reality of their experiences with the cascade of Zika -

But -

One thing is certain: a moving target is a moving target -

Until - all the facts are in - no 'expert' nor 'pundit' - knows every fact of ALL there is to know - about Zika -

Notwithstanding that no 'expert' nor 'pundit' is - EVER - omniscient and infallible - about any thing - much less every thing - PERIOD -

Yet here we are -

With 'experts' attesting to 'knowledge based' advocacy of GMO 'safety' and 'invaluable valuation to humankind' - VOA News: Nobel Laureates Challenge Greenpeace Anti-GMO Campaign (6/29/16) -

Despite lacking ALL the facts there is to know - about GMOs - relying on their status as 'nobel laureates' united in a cause to advocate for the 'science of nutrition' - a group of such 'experts' are willing to advocate on behalf of the known 'science' of GMOs -

Regardless of the known cascade of effects of GMO agriculture on land rights and seed rights - on the business of agriculture for sustainable living and small business - on the biomes of delicate ecosystems around the world - all of which - are entirely relevant - to the populations for whom these 'experts' are purportedly advocating -

- by way of advocating for the 'science' - that actively, persistently, deliberately - deprives these populations of - their land and their seed - their farms for sustainable living and small business - the biomes of delicate ecosystems around the world of their diversity -

However - to focus solely on one piece of a bigger picture that is meaningfully relevant - is not uncommon - with respect to how information - misinforms - via omission of information, including known 'science' -

Needless to say -

I wonder how many of these 'experts' - as well as any number of similarly minded 'pundits' - are among those who believe that this sterling - all too common - exemplification of modern journalism with respect to the recent bombing in Istanbul - is valid - as a means of reporting known 'facts' - BuzzFeed News: Media Publishes Images of Bombing in Brussels as 'Bombing in Istanbul' (6/29/16)

Why publish facts - when you can distort information - to propagate misinformation - ? Indeed - various 'information disseminating vehicles' - used deliberately incendiary sound bytes - without any substantiation of 'facts' - whatsoever - from the get-go -

Though - now - some reports of known 'facts' - are attesting to confirmation of previously unsubstantiated conjecture - (all the facts - are still yet unknown - with certainty) -

However - this isn't a case of cheering for those who guessed right - or egg on the faces of those who responsibly refrained from guessing at all -

Indeed - it bears noting - that there is a lot at stake - with respect to misinforming the public - especially with respect to destructive acts of violence around the world -

Not only do such events - demand coherence for many - there is extraordinary pressure - for this coherence - to follow a script -

For acts of violence - that deviate from scripts of known 'realities' or 'facts' - incite those inclined to populist fear mongering to incendiate, rabble rouse, goat get, etc. - not least because such inclinations mask incentivized behavior (or duplicitous motivation) - including biggering, or simply, lying -

Not unlike recent 'Leave' campaigns for Brexit: BuzzFeed News: Four Brexit Promises That Have Already Gone Up In Smoke (6/25/16)

Nevertheless - despite events that grip us, titillate us, enrage us, gratify us - as information consumers - those who believe - that unsubstantiated hearsay, conjecture, guesses, etc. - among many forms of misinformation, including, infotainment and propaganda - are - unequivocal facts, the truth, if you will - are the same information consumers who believe skepticism - such as that espoused in this post - is a sterling - all too common - exemplification of an agenda to hide the truth, if you the will, from the public -

No better exposition of the danger of our vaunted age of so-called 'information' and 'knowledge' - exists - than how easily information consumers believe - misinformation - is - right, infallible, true - and knowledge (as well as skepticism of known 'science' or known 'facts') - is - wrong, deceptive, false -

As often evidenced -

By celebrity stand-ins for 'experts' - as often self attributed as such, as 'pundits' -

Here's how 'celebrities' propagandize 'knowledge based information' to champion their agendas of greed - C|Net: 'Artists' Demand Reform to DMCA (6/20/16)

Needless to say - not only are the purported 'claims' of 'artists' with respect to their championship of remuneratory remediation via specific modifications to the aforementioned DMCA - factually inaccurate, unsubstantiated, and unfounded - but they reek of insatiable avarice and greed - from the most disingenuous of platforms - art - !

Nevertheless - it is only a matter of time - before no consumable will be wholly owned - such that every use of every consumable - will henceforth exact a fee -

- to feed starving artists abed their mansions and aboard their private jets - of course -

In the end -

How often do we believe fact, knowledge - verily - information - in the truest sense - ?

And -

How often do we believe - whatever the fuck we want to believe - ? On the basis of whatever the fuck we want - ?

Pride - ? Yessir - ! (Heaven forbid we admit to errors, mistakes, failures, colossal stupidities - !)

Prejudice - ? Yessir - ! (Heaven forbid we admit to racism, sexism, religionism, sexualityism, xenophobism, educationism, classism - especially if we ourselves are a 'protected' 'class' - !)

Hell - how about we believe whatever the fuck we want to believe - on the basis of being allergic to the fucking truth - !

Nah -

We're a people addicted to - the truth - the whole truth - nothing but the truth - ! We consume information - all the time - ! Hell - there are so many information disseminating vehicles devoted to the dissemination of known 'facts' - 24 fucking 7 - that we choose information dissemination vehicles based our preference for one 'fact' disseminating entertainment personality - over another - !

How the fuck - could we be allergic to the truth - ?

Because we're addicted to the truth - when it's convenient and comfortable - for us -

On the other hand - we snort lines of hypocrisy - when the truth is inconvenient and uncomfortable -

- when the truth exposes our depravity - when the truth exposes our greed - when the truth exposes our narcissism - when the truth exposes our callous ignorance and our appalling apathy - when the truth exposes our human nature to err and subsequently lie to avoid atonement and justice - when the truth exposes our human nature to preserve our artifacts of selves at all costs, regardless of any moral behest to be truthful and demonstrate moral fortitude and integrity - when the truth exposes our most fragile vulnerability - of which, the greatest is -

- how ignorant and blind - all of us - really and truly are - about all there is to know about all there is to know - about each other - this planet - and the granverse beyond -

- M.

Note

Knowing is half the battle...

The other half... is giving a shit...

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For The Love Of Ellipsis

Dearest Captain,

It has come to my attention ~ although ~ I'm afraid ~ by the most ghastly of vulgar displays ~ that somehow our correspondences of late have traversed the most dreadful of misunderstandings ~

which ~ truth be told ~ is neither revelatory nor novel ~ given our abiding reluctance to tear our hearts from our bosoms and avail our selves of our most candid vulnerabilities ~ vis a vis this most public of permanent records ~ of course ~

nevertheless ~ there are indeed impetuous realities that must be unearthed from tombs of privacy ~ with respect to prides and prejudices that have inspired many a soul to jumping and wagging like fleas at a faire ~

needless to say ~ I hardly expect you to be the first to bow 'fore fickle impulse of veracity ~ ever the dandy, and lion still ~

thus ~ lingering reservations of optismal caprice aside ~ I take it upon myself ~ to bare the truth that shall release my trothen heart of this affliction of squandered trust and faithe ~

your truthe is your truthe ~ verily ~

however ~

some truthes are so inconceivable, so depraved that ever they burrow themselves within depths unlit in the treacherest reaches of that gloam that is fathomless memory ~

until such truthes awaken 'fore star fair ~

whereupon ~ steadest of steadfast artifacts burst asunder glowflies foiled of lucid coherence ~ scattering fictions of facile lies to the four winds and the seven seas and the nine realms of olde ~

though these realities poison the swell of fond remembrances ~ like turnt cream that despoils that most decadent of chill confections ~ to lose sight of them ~ is to lose sight of the isle amidst the tempest that ravages great ships and shatters fierce masts like yon playsticks of youthhood ~ 

to be sure ~ refusewood as refuge bears the seem of satisfaction among the unfortunate adrift ~ to which ~ I shudder ~ how repugnant, how vile ~ that fair facades repudiate the nature of man to thrive without such crutches ~ ever desperate, ever mean, ever frivolous, ever fairless ~ the soulless who don masques of artificed tragedy and guiled despair ~ for immoral gaine ~ 

sigh ~ ever the digression of the obvious diverts ~ ever the iceberg enchants inexorable curiosity ~ as well you indubitably remember ~ having repudiated this irrepressible effervescent joie de cognoscere of mine ~ for somnolescence of favor and sopor of pleasure ~ ever unflaggingly and anon argently ~

alas ~ lest I wander bridges of epiphany further more ~ let me affirm this ~

the cost of your delight of me is steep ~ far more than most would enjoin, given demonstrable obloquy aloft sways of weather fair ~ now, then, everywhen ~ as is the cost of much that is at once ~ worth while and worth less ~ never the less ~ surely you did not suppose the truthe to remain lost to me for the interminable eternity ~ ?

notwithstanding the ardency with which you vomit aspersions and malignant opines ~ to which, you avow and disavow, swear and forswear, as facilely as cirri are mercurial ~ surely, it is so ~ though at once ~ careful and carlesss ~

still ~ no one is beyond forgiveness ~ for no heart nor soul is lost to redemption ~ ever there is hope for expiation for realities cloaked in ellipsis and theatre and artifact ~ ever there is love for the truthe of truthes ~

though oft inspired by fantasias of elan ~ my trothen heart shall ever reveille the trustless and the faitheless ~ for no you, yourself nor life, lifeself ~ empowers me, myself ~ to abandon the heroism of mercy and compassion ~ the courage of love and hope ~  

so ~ dearest captain ~

I wish for you the song of the world ~ Circes true ~ sweet winds, fore and aft ~ a faithful star to guide you ~ through tempests abrew in teacups and tempests afierce nine realms of olde ~

Semper tua,

Juliet

Note

Lest there be further missed understanding ~

no letter published to the most public of permanent records ~ is posted forth ~ without intention ~ explicit, implicit, complicit ~ overt, covert, subvert ~

verily and in fact ~ intentions duplicitous, disingenuous, vicious ~ despite that resoundingly insistent insipid seem ~ of the vacuous, the asinine, the ignorant ~

my letter is no different than other letters ~ and theatre and performance that self aggrandizes as arte ~ too ~ circulated forth ~ in this regard ~ of intention ~

however ~

unlike fictions and pretenses that air aloft fetid sweltering sways of weather fair ~

my letter stands 'fore all with no guile ~

its truthes lay bold and bare for all to read ~ 'fore scorching blaze of vigorous scrutiny and searing brilliance of honest exposal ~

need less to say ~ never the less ~

with respect to implicit and covert intentions of vengeance and defamation ~ 

is it not convenient ~ that those who cleave to depraved moral prejudices ~ vehemently accuse others of selfsame depravity ~ ?

is it not convenient ~ that those who cosset the craven privilege of pride and venerate the shameless conceit of self worship ~ vehemently propagate myths of renaissance mastery and virtuosity ~ to masquerade as truthers and artistes ~ ?

as if the rigamarole of fair facades are not utterly and wholly transparent to cognoscescence ~

in the end ~

my letter stands alone ~ to be sure ~

and ~

my letter stands amidst that great conversation that is the epiphany and the revelation of the truthe of truthes ~ for ever grace triumphs through tempests ~ ever clamorous, ever destructive, ever foul, ever deceitful ~ that threaten our dreams, our nobilities, our virtues, our dignities ~ if ever we lose sight of that firm footing of ~ hope ~ love ~ forgiveness ~ redemption ~ and that firmest of all foundations of trust and faithe ~

the truthe ~

Respectfully always,

Juliet

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Note (I)

see above

Note (II)

in the title ~ ellipsis refers to silent omissions ~ 

moreover ~ obvious ~ in context or by nuance ~

see also ~ word origin of ellipsis ~

Note (III)

see also ~ The Tempest (Shakespeare) ~

eminently entertaining (and readable) precis @ shmoop ~ (unlike alternatives that impugn the vivacity of Shakespeare, with summaries as engagingly delightful as cardboard tenements)

more @ wiki ~ and the play in its entirety @ wikisource ~

'misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows' ~ spoken by Trinculo, as he seeks shelter from a fearsome tempest, 'neath the cloak of Caliban, whose prostrate stillness is but pretense ~ Act 2, Scene II ~ The Tempest ~ Shakespeare

Note (IV)

This letter features Captain and Juliet ~ who were first introduced here: Dear Captain, A Letter.

Like stepping into a river and finding it altered by the currents of water and time ~ this letter is extracted from the saga of their story ~ which, in the bloom of Spring, still poised uncertain ~

Now, in the unflinching glare of Summer, their saga traverses a course that is ~ at once treacherous ~ and yet ~ familiar, too ~

Only time will tell ~ how this saga will end ~

Still ~ one wonders ~ if sagas repeat in cycles ~ like endless go rounds of merry ~ because the point ~ is for all of us ~ upon horses encircling mirrors ~ gilt with worthless precieux faux ~ to realize ~ that the circus is an illusion fed by our fears and our insecurities 'fore a truth that is at once ~ majestic and small ~ lux and miser ~

Deus ex machina ~ indeed ~

Yours,

a m