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Feed Three
It feels to me like people tend
to lean towards (or are pushed into)
extremes. I also feel that, in general, extremes aren't too
healthy. Things get shoved into the Yes or No
column, they
become Black or White, On or Off, Cool or Dweeb...
The concept of Neutral has become melded with Wishy Washy, Flip
Flopper, and Spineless... hardly "neutral" concepts.
And it seems to me that most folks here in the good ol' U.S. of A are
completely unable, or unwilling, to embrace the concept of Duality.
It feels like most folks here hear the word "duality" and summon forth
images of bi-polar schitzo psychopathic ax murders or, at best, some
sort of dark and mysterious "secret identity".
The idea of two extremes joined in a healthy and homogenous marriage
seems to be a hard one for folks here to dive into, and I don't get
it. Why is that so hard? Redneck Hippy is not an
oxymoron,
nor is He-Man Girly-Boy. I happen to be a redneck hippy
he-man
girly-boy, and whereas I am indeed mad as a hatter I am Not a bi-polar
schitzo psychopathic ax murder.
For the most part I don't really care. If this western
society of
people wants to run off of one of the extreme deep ends and drag
themselves (and probably the whole freaking world) down to hell in a
hand basket, hey, fine, more power to them.
But during election years I get kind of ticked about it.
Any candidate not in an extreme party (i.e. those people from the Freak
Party) never get a chance, the well entrenched / well funded extreme
parties tend to shut them down before they ever get out of the starting
gate.
We are left with extreme choice A, and extreme choice B, which really
isn't much of a choice... There's no A sharp, no B
flat. We
have exactly two notes to build this political symphony of a society
with, and I don't know about anybody else, but I've never heard a two
note melody that didn't make me want to become a bi-polar schitzo
psychopathic ax murder after about half an elevator ride, ya know?
*sploosh*
twj
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