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Word Gems
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Soulmate, Myself:
Prometheus Denied
18: The Dysfunctional Thankfulness
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[lying in bed]
K. (very softly) I can tell you are lost in thought.
E. It’s what Big Water said about “I thank thee Lord that I am not
like other men” – the cloaked neediness, the embryonic rise of totalitarianism.
K. That military spirit of yours loves freedom and recoils at
any threat of Dear-Leader-ism.
E. That’s true, but… I find it somewhat devastating to see, within my own
hidden self, a root of potential despotism.
K. (silence)
E. The Earth has its tyrants who make no pretense of their savage
and ruthless polices of subduing the masses… but… there is a more
subtle version of this evil… and I think Big Water was on to something very profound… there are millions and millions of people, the disdainful
haughty, who consider themselves better, the “smartest ones in the
room,” patrician and far above the plebs… and, in this poisonous elitism, align themselves with anti-humanistic, totalitarian sentiment.
K. Some of these “superior ones” are just naïve and lack self-knowledge… they’re the ones Day Star warned about – those quite
willing to manufacture a dependent class in order to feel good about
themselves, to keep themselves on top and employed with their
so-called “public service.”
E. There’s a hidden cancer in their “service”… but I need not so quickly condemn them. I find it very unsettling to witness, lurking in my own spirit, nascent leanings toward totalitarianism… rooted in pride.
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