The Itch That Does Not Stop

The banality of evil,
the evil of banality,
the banality of an evil
that has no finality...

The Point Of Therapy

is to push our difficulties past their sell-by date,
which is long gone for our friends who have to listen to us,
but not yet there for those who don't hear ourselves.
The better to put those difficulties in the past tense,
and get ourselves in the present.
This is done for us to replace the old problems
with something fresher and more creative.




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By Edward Munch

'The Sun' painted 1911-16.

Modern Phariseeism,

is like the phariseeism of old; live well materially,
have clean and tidy houses, keep your accounts
in good order and last, and far from least, have full larder.
But the car has taken over the role that legalistic theology
once had, as the transport of delight by which to bypass
the point of life, without being seen to, and proving you are
in The Elect. Anyone who drives bypasses the mess
and goes too fast to see the rubbish snagged in hedges.
But if we walked we would see the litter, and be moved
by how much it, like the vehicles it was thrown from,
is unnatural to the landscape. To see like this requires
having  more time than money. A friendliness with having less
is a neccesity for us to be well acquainted with the land that bears us. 

Charles Darwin Was Willfully Misunderstood

It is now well known that Charles Darwin
'stopped believing in God' in 1851, when Anne,
his beloved 11 yr old daughter, died of scarlet fever.
But when did his belief in society end?
I would suggest that his belief stopped like a broken watch
when he was goaded to publish 'On The Origin Of Species',
because of his awareness of his rival. His belief shrank
when he saw how his work generated disagreement,
as his society proved bound by the binary logic;
survival proves superiority vs extinction meant defeat
and only the fittest survive. Regardless of the idea
that hides in plain sight in Darwin's work
-that when any person dies, or a species dies back,
their decline is what makes way for the life that follows them.
Past matter had to decline for the  life of all alive now
to share in the present, present matter will have to decline
for the life and matter of the future to have a present.

My biggest gift to the future will not be the life I have now,
which will be forgotten but the decaying matter out of which
new life will be built. Above all I don't want to be argued over.

If Nursing Homes

and sheltered housing are 'care in the community'
for the elderly and infirm, does that make the courts,
the police, and the prison system 'care outside
the community' for the propertyless and the young?

What Every American,

and every citizen of the first world economy,
should know is how their economy has so far
beaten the Malthusian maths of world consumption;
the oil extracted from the ground for the richest
to live best is equivalent to every person on the planet
having two and half slaves. Because people in the third
world breed more often and live on far less, their share
of the inanimate slavery of energy from the ground
will always be a fraction of the average slave energy.
The world poor will inherit the logic of Malthus's tragedy.