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Disorder as the disillusion of debate.

Devastation as the ultimate distraction.

Destruction as the epitome of entertainment.

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I found a spoon that was not there,

It was not there but on the moon,

Which wasn’t true, as you may know,

It was never heard or ever seen,

It was not there, had never been.

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Birth is the entrance,

Death is the exit,

our best hope is art.

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‘The more we understand about the universe, the more it seems to be utterly pointless’

(From a scientific perspective)

Weinberg

So we are the embodiment of systems; which could mean religion or mythology (concerned with the creation of things and our place within it), or pyschoanalytical theory (psychological/biological processes). Could system also mean science itself? (The values of empirical method). Science is a noble system, no doubt, if it is a system at all, but it’s an austere and demanding one.

The point is we cannot be free of these things; to claims that we have no system, that we see things exactly as they are, that we live and create, without any preconceptions or hidden ideology, is to deceive ourselves. We are already enslaved.

“I must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Mans, I will not Reason & Compare; my business is to Create.”

William Blake

Our lives are systems; processes are the relationships with our history, our surroundings, with each other, with ourselves.

Systems are just stories.

Listen well; read widely, read wisely.

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Under the sun, there is only one.

With me and you, there will be two.

We all too often judge and criticise, mock and scowl, with righteous indignation we determine whether other people are worthy of our love and respect - this is a fundamental flaw of our nature.

We will ignore a whole series of good qualities if we can identify a single flaw in a person’s nature; or even a single mistake, an error of judgement, or bad habit.

With kindness and forgiveness, and a respect for the whole person, we can overcome this error of thinking about others and ourselves; work together, overcome differences and create something.

(Or we can just carry on throwing rocks at the bus.)

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