subtitle changed from ...("It's not too late, Rethuglicans) to ("Whip It")
For any Rethuglicans out there...it's not too late for a change of heart...look inside...root out any Authoritarian tendencies...and...
and down the dizzying Vortex we go...where we stop nobody knows...
down,
down, down...
Pull down thy vanity
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,
A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,
Half black half white
Nor knowst'ou wing from tail
Pull down thy vanity
How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity,
Pull down thy vanity,
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity,
Pull down thy vanity,
I say pull down.
But to have done instead of not doing
This is not vanity
To have, with decency, knocked
That a Blunt should open
To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
this is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered . . .
ezra pound
from the pisan cantos
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LESSON ONE
IN THE VORTEX
ASIAN PHILOSOPHY FOR "RETHUGLICAN(S)"
PART I.
1. The "Way" of nature is "actualized", hence, embodied. Heaven, in accordance with the "Way" is a given, a sacred duty, the passing forward of this duty is called education.
2. Learning, of the "Way", can not be abandoned, not ever. If it could be abandoned, [it] wouldn't be the "Way". On this account the superior person would need not see, nor hear "everything" before they apprehend. This is called prudence.
3. What is more visible than the secrets of the heart? For sure, the minutest of clues reveal the manifest core. Be watchful over your heart, especially when alone.
4. Without the stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy the human heart is said to be in Equilibrium. With said stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, and, their comportment in action, like a debt paid, ensures the denomination called Harmony. This Equilibrium is the "Great Root" which develops all human action in the world. This Harmony is the Universal "Way" all "RETHUGLICANS" should pursue.
5. Let Equilibrium and Harmony reign and a happy perfection and true order will ensue. All things will be nourished and flower.
PART II.
Only the superior person can ascertain the true "Way" The inferior person is always violating the principle.
1. Chung Ni said, "The superior person understands the "Way" and the means. The Rethuglican acts contrary to the course, or the "Way"
2. The superior person understands the "Way" and its means, because they are superior and always maintain the "Way". The mediocre Rethuglicans, comport themselves contrary to the "Way", because they are mediocre and lack attention.
translated by Axle,
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"Although logos is common to all, most people live
as if they had a wisdom of their own."
Heraclitus