Great Turn Offs of Our Time (23)

'He may be a criminal but he is our criminal'
is a phrase that many invoke, when they settle
on some particularly choice lawyer, leader,
or politician with his shiny charisma,
who they know is a criminal but they think
'as long as he is criminal for me
I can control him and he is the criminal, not me.
I can disown his criminality as my employee.'.

But the point about criminality is it's dishonesty.
When we employ somebody else to steal for us
whoever we employ is as likely to steal from us,
and lie by omission about it to our faces
as they are to tell us that thy have done our bidding.

The real question with any criminal practice
is how long it takes for it to be discovered,
and who will be most destroyed by it's discovery.

Am I Worth Knowing?

Most people would quible at being described as cul-de-sacs
but how many more refuse to accept that they are dead ends?

It Was Always Thus

and time out of mind is always worth too much to measure.

Beyond The Veils

When life is definitively unpleasant
then misremembering events is a natural defence.
The problem being that when therapists,
and others with similar skills listen, and hoke through
the veils of memory to test for truth and falsity,
they can't tell when where or why their patients originally
needed to lie to others and themselves.
Perhaps that it is why both therapist and client retreat
from the shared cognition of how life was for them both,
in its time both nakedly hostile and threatening
-and that is why both retreat from giving due thanks
for the strength to see past the need for all that aggression.