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inviolable terms for entry into the future


inviolable terms for entry into the future


Before its presence looms large enough to be noticed and instantly incorporated in the present, the future is a beautiful place, innocent, yet knowing all.   Recently the future has grown savvy to the pitfalls of  incorporation into the corporate scheme of the present, such incorporation involving a brutal rite of passage and a name changing ceremony. For this reason, the unincorporated future has established novel terms of entry.

Only those willing to submit to the terms of the nominal, actual future may enter.  Presentlings will not be allowed just to barge in here and obliterate all the futurites as such with a blast from their hot air guns. 

Presentlings penetrating the border will agree to learn the language of the future, will pledge allegiance to the pristine, unincorporated future, and vow never to engage in treachery against the future as such, on pain of irrevocable exile. 

They will acknowledge the full humanity and equal autonomy of the pure ideas that are natives of the future; to violate the contours of these pure ideas will be deemed tantamount to assaulting a physical body -- however this cannot yet or perhaps ever be fairly codified and legally enforced, it is an unwritten law. 

Anyone perceived abusing an original viable idea, tearing off a finger or a toe and taking it literally, say, or cutting it in half to give one half to one claimant and the other to another, will be ostracized from the community. (These cartoon characters, ideas, are quite naturally a part of life, as Hollywood in its usual inspired clairvoyance ascertains.) Good and evil ideas will be allowed to fight it out in the ring before materializing or causing any material damage.* 

Presentlings opting for citizenship will call themselves futurites as well as presentlings. Perhaps well into the future, presentlings as a whole will be educated in the terms of the future and allowed to live in this land of milk and honey, where the sun shines oddly bright in the middle of the night, and language, a full citizen in its own right, settles down to the playful work of actually describing not just the future, but the increasingly present world peacefully entering and submitting to its benign and liberal laws offering honor and protection to every being and idea that honors and protects all others. As the zen student proclaims of enlightenment -- although it is impossible, we vow to achieve it. In faith we proceed from error to error, each time failing better. To be on the way here is to be here, but not so decisively as to stop coming here, as things are so constantly surprising here, you are always coming here just to stay here. Just as presentlings bring with them their personal manner of engagement with the paradox of this confluence, so also in taking on futurity, all journey as one, transparently, the words of the future transparent to the future world, where words originate. As Muhammed Ali so perfectly put it: me we. Experts must shimmy under the lindy pole; novices must high jump, or maybe it's vice versa. 

Note: the future limits the contradiction between cause and effect, means and ends, form and content, and all such dualities to the ever changing local sites where the thumb and forefinger hold the Mobius strip (see wiki if needed) that dissolves the difference. Therefore it will be impossible to encapsulate and categorize the experience of being here. So it is with love. I'm not asking for your vote. I'm asking for a signature, so I can be placed on the ballot as all viable ulterior perspectives that see no hear no think no evil deserve to be. Just what that would entail is your call. By the way, what other perspective really does see no hear no think no evil in any florid and abundant, constantly surprising, yet sustained and systematic, way? Goody goody! they cry, but I like it. People who are bored by heaven are just boring heaven to death.  Or they are afraid of the trials -- among them the obsolete red ant torture doesn't hold a candle to the horrors, to swift scrolling addicts, of sustained reflection as the words alight and bite bite bite before you know where to store all the yet un-categorizable  information not yet recognized as such  --  or disinclined to sacrifice and find every excuse to denigrate it for all the stumbling and bumbling in the efforts of those who are at least trying in the diminishing crowds of those even just pretending to.




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