How To Human

Preface

How To War

Step 1:

convince - whomever - to fear - whatever -

Step 2:

let fear - rampant and unfettered - thrive -

Also:

Buttress Step 1:

legitimize - elevate as superiorest reason - glorify as idolest extraordinaire - commend, laud, esteem as adulatory and grandest -

'whosoever' advances fear and 'whatsoever' advances terror -

Scaffold Step 2:

malign - vilify - crucify - 'whosoever' civilizes and advances peace (for all) - 

discredit - destroy - nullify - 'whatsoever' calms and advances (the whole) truth -

How To Human

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I am a woman - borne from union of man and woman -

- and I am not afraid.

I am of ancestry of mountains and desserts - far from where I here -

- and I am not afraid.

My blood courses through hearts upon thrones - near and far -

- and I am not afraid.

Tears shed in anguish - nourish river beds of poverty - mine and yours -

- and I am not afraid.

I am religions - past and future -

- and I am not afraid.

I am sexualities - beyond polarities -

- and I am not afraid.

I am -

- and I am not afraid.

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For fear enslaves us all -

For fear imprisons us all -

For fear immolates us all -

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Only -

If -

We empower fear to enslave us -

We empower fear to imprison us -

We empower fear to immolate us -

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Until -

Our liaison with terror - lustful and torrid - satisfies us no more -

Until -

Humanity - is worth succoring -

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How to human -

and -

How to war -

will be -

One -

Playlist

How To War ~ How To Human

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Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker (official @ vevo @ youtube)

Shinedown How Did You Love (official @ youtube)

Frenship 1000 Nights (official @ vevo @ youtube)

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for the immortal

death is transitory

here to there

and

back again

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for the mortal

death

is 

the end of here and now

all that mattered

all that didn't

all that

never will

ever more

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vivo semper liber perpetuum

- M.

Reckoning

Aside from hubris - bloating our stature beyond truthful measure -

- our reckoning is - here -

- our reckoning is - now -

Reckoning

Thus shall the blood of fools -

- pump through hearts of hatred - !

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Thus shall the sword of the indignant -

- destroy - mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber - for hubris and hypocrisy - !

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Thus shall crows of war -

- feast on plenty - !

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Life and death is the great cycle -

- cycling anew - ad perpetuum -

- what matter - which fools - which indignants -

- sacrifice their lives for lies - !

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The era of The Blameless -

- is the era of the contemptible revolting as if noble - !

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The era of The Aphotic -

- is the era of the self superior vomiting as if virtuous - !

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The era of Devolution -

- is the era of liars pretending to truth -

- to advance greed and me me me - 

- at the expense of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth -

- so help me, myself - !

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Thus humility is adulterated -

- into that motto of the corrupt -

- into that credo of the denied -

- into that chant of the narcissist -

- masquerading as champions of freedom and liberty -

- crusaders of mutuus et aequum -

- warriors of vivo et liber -

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As if -

- the corrupt - the denied - the narcissist -

- possess beyond infinitesimal - real knowledge - genuine comprehension - sincere appreciation - the truth of freedom and liberty and mutuus and aequum and vivo and liber - 

- that -

- thrives -

- beyond the realm of the self absorbed - the obscene - the malicious - the tyrant -

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Freedom and liberty -

- withers and dies -

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- 'fore mobs of ignorance - that vigilantly exemplify hatred -

- 'fore pens of war monger - that recklessly amplify misanthropy -

Mutuus et aequum -

- 'fore reductive generalizations - that elevate superfice and artifice over the truth -

- 'fore polarizing rhetoric - that foment war over peace -

Vivo et liber -

- 'fore renunciation of generosity -

- 'fore repudiation of mercy -

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For what - ?

- Tyranny of Thought - Oppression of Action -

- choice, decided, side -

- mine mine mine -

- the right choice, the right decided, the right side - of - the righteous -

- per my infallibility, per my sacrosanctity - per deem, per ascription - per me me me -

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For who - ?

- Despots of every Stride - Tyrants of every Stripe - Autocrats of every Bell every Whistle every Lectern every Platform -

- whose despotism - whose tyranny - whose autocracy -

- is just and legitimate - per the only right choice, the only right decided, the only right side -

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At the expense of -

- freedom and liberty - for all -

- mutuus et aequum - for all -

- vivo et liber - for all -

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Thus -

- greed - for the few -

- interest - of the few -

- are advanced by side choosers - willfully exploited - by profiteers and stakeholders and props and surrogates -

- like so many pawns on a chess table that adamantly deny the truth - that canon fodder and expendable chaff are conferred not the wherewithal to think and question - for perpetual blindness is that deliberate mutilation of independence and autonomy sacrificed for that greed and interest of the few who rob the many of freedom and liberty with nary a twinge of care -

- now as ever -

See also

Translating Pretzel Land (tvfs)

- spec. sides, re: unsides and not sides among sides

- spec. addendum, re: mischaracterizations and demonizations

Choosing Sides Is Choosing War (tvfs)

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To be immortal -

- is to see patterns where there are patterns -

- cycles when there are cycles -

- because -

- such patterns are ad perpetuum -

- such cycles are ad pepetuum -

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Alternatively - to be mortal -

- is to repudiate patterns -

- reject cycles -

- because mortality and aphotism persist in tandem -

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Verily -

- to be immortal is to recognize context - nuance - perspective - across great expanses of times and matters -

Whilst -

- to be mortal - is to superembellish self importance - to superaggrandeur self worth - within microscopically infinitesimal fragments of times and matters - per aphotism -

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Moreover -

- mortal reliance on continuities of 'science', 'religion', 'history', etc. fail to mitigate, much less eliminate, the influence and havoc of aphotism entrenched within such continuities -

- for such continuities resolutely fail to see aphotism - extant now - as ever -

- despite ostensible missions of such continuities to defy aphotism - presumed unrealized per rampant hubris -

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(including that perennially obdurate fiction - that powers that be - have relegated, are relegating, will relegate - mortal kind to 'roles', for example, within 'science', 'religion', 'history', for example - per superfice and artifice - coincidentally endemic and virulent throughout 'histories' of mortal kind, despite 'advancement' of 'evolution' and 'progression' of 'knowledge' -

- verily - it defies logic - that such superfice and artifice would be meaningful to determinations of worth per deem by powers that be whose sensibilities and reason are surely mired not by the unremittingly inane superfice and artifice of mortal kind -)

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In any case -

- aphotism sabotages the cause of truth - ever and always -

- and - insofar as mortality and aphotism persist in tandem -

- mortal kind sabotage the cause of truth - ever and always -

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Nevertheless -

- to award embellishment of self importance and confer grandeur of self worth - is to legitimize and laud coffins of aphotism -

- but - to renounce aphotism as that prison that facilitates and furthers lies that pretend to truth - is to vivo et liber - 

- to vivo et liber is to spurn aphotism for the truth of pattern and cycle and context and nuance and perspective -

- including the lie of aphotism, as prevalent now as ever, that the advancement and betterment of one of us, advances and betters all of us -

- verily - no advancement, no betterment - of one kind - is ever - mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber for all - for such advancement, such betterment is that tyranny of one kind over all that has obliterated civilities and civilizations for eras upon eras upon eras -

- indeed - mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber for all - is - mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber for all - without qualification, with reservation - 

- PERIOD -

- no true champion of freedom and liberty - no true crusader of mutuus et aequum - no true warrior of vivo et liber - extols any motto, credo, chant of such blatantly counterfeit peace as that which is proliferated by tyrants of narcissism and privilege -

- M. 

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Note

Sides and sideists - vigilant against peace - reject peace -

Peace as aspiration of all, for all - rejects sideism that advances agendas of sideists -

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Zealous loyalty, fanatical devotion, militant conviction - to sides -

- endemifies hate -

- justifies war -

- to demise of all -

- for the tyranny of side over all -

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Insofar as every side as sideist - denies mutuus et aequum of all, vivo et liber of all -

Insofar as every side as sideist - rejects mutuus et aequum for all, vivo et liber for all -

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- NO SIDE - is - OF ALL -

- NO SIDE - is - FOR ALL -

Therefore -

- NO SIDE - is - JUST -

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(Moreover - sides that elevate and/or condemn - any and/or all of us - per moral, intellectual, ideological, etc. differences - (oft elevated as superior or condemned as inferior) - offer - no voice of freedom for no cause of liberty -)

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Until -

- all of us choose all of us -

- peace will remain that prop of war - manipulated by stakeholders and profiteers and surrogates - to stoke that flame of sideism that brims with hatred -

Until -

- all of us choose what is real that matters -

- we - the many - will lose what is too precious to surrender - to the few -

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Is peace worth so little - that war - that actuation of narcissism - is -

- your choice - your decided - your side - ? 

Is your fellow kind and being kind - worth so little - that death - that unequivocal mortality - is -

- your choice for your fellow kind - your decided for being kind - your side for you - ?

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When there is no seat at the table - 

- for peace -

- how is peace achieved - 

- when every seat - is - for sideism -

- when every seat - is - sideist -

- when every seat - is - side at war - ?

- M.

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.