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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

Absolutely definitive, and in the appropriate poetic mode, because that's what we all are basically, poets and artists of all kinds, and we didn't ever need , literally, "to make sense of it all." It wasn't meant for us to make up crazy stories - and then believe them literally - a cruel god from whom you need mercy and "salvation" through ransom and cruel death of our best specimen, an endless competition from which the best rises to the top as cream, when actually the crud at the bottom rules. We are told, "pain is good, and the more of it the better". Saves the soul, but only the souls of elites matter, and they, more than anyone else, dish out the pain from which they believe themselves exempt.

So, "the sense of it all" according to the pre-eminent fable we religiously believe, is utter, total destruction.

Yes, it is boredom that is the greatest error and threat. Because we forget who we are and why we're here: as guests in a unique environment that we should admire and appreciate instead of, in our treasure hunt for meaning and insane fear of "the next world", trying to take it apart like a clock - our conception of the universe ! - and inevitably forgetting how to put it back together - that is, get ourselves, our perceptions, priorities and objectives, together.

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