TO CREATE AN ENEMY Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children. Dip into the unconscious well of your own disowned darkness with a wide brush and stain the strangers with the sinister hue of the shadow. Trace onto the face of the enemy the greed, hatred,…
Month: February 2017
Truth Is A Sword—The Real Self
Truth is a sword. Two-edged, no doubt. Daunting. Sovereign. This symbol, like countless others, has been twisted and grossly distorted. It is feared. A sword can indeed be used to steal from others—life, limb, well-being, peace. But a surgeon’s scalpel can also heal, clear away infection or tissue which has died. It can remove poisons…
Nobody Likes Change – Willful Blindness
“Nobody likes change because the status quo feels safer, it’s familiar, we’re used to it. Change feels like redirecting the riverbed: effortful and risky. It’s so much easier to imagine that what we don’t know won’t hurt us.” —Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (2011), p. 91
Dare To Notice What’s Staring At You
Have you noticed the face of Empire looming over you? It’s there. With its hot breath and sharpened teeth and its cold, threatening eyes. You have undoubtedly felt it, like a bewildering cloud of chaos all around you that you can’t quite pinpoint. But have you noticed it, with your powers of rational attention and…