I am sorry! But I would just continue to be me & do it over and over again!!!
(The stimulus for these thoughts was a story on the recent very nice work of art, “The Banshees …” presented this morning on CBS NEWS Sunday Morning [The Banshees of Inisherin – Wikipedia ])
I am full of empathy. But I am also very callous. (And, by the way, I AM [not so uniquely] a sinner!)
Love and sensitivity are an inherent part of me. … On the other hand, I arrogantly believe I read people and the world pretty well. And I tell the world what I think about it. I speak “my Truths.”
In my feeble, terribly human ways, I think I am as right as most. But certainly, my Truths have been initially & necessarily formed with religious doctrine & very necessary Myth, and sprinkled, shaded, obscured with various levels of mistake in the process of being informed by science.
Because my Truths and the way I communicate them often challenge the indoctrination & lives lived and unsustainable livelhoods and excessive lifestyles of status quo Haves and those in power … many, maybe most, absolutely do not want to hear it!
(Haves who wield Power Inappropriately view Truth as Toxic.)
Thusly, I have lost the “friendship of friends,” even family (though because I think of the gently, savvy genes of Mom St. Louise [Kneuper] Martin, not that many?). But on the other hand, some (my very special partner, some siblings, a couple of offspring, a childhood friend et al., a major professor, several college co-studiers of entomology, several dear “communitarians” here in our current home town, a couple of dear mentors out west/north/east/way south, and a few others) … have hung tight with me over the years despite my frequent “toxic” outspokeness in quixotically trying to buck the system.
The really important Truths involve a profound and holistic abiding by:
o David Orr’s “all education is ecological education” (paraphrased) and realizing that we must have “positively ethical applied community ecology across curricula/PEACE” across campuses & curricula of all human orgnizational entities
o Wendell Berry’s “To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”
o the golden rule and caring & sharing (Do strive hard and perseveringly toward equity & elimination of disparity and take care, as humanity, to live in concert with a dynamic homeostatic symbioses which INCLUDES humans.)
o the second law of thermodynamics, the precautionary principle, and “Less Is (always) More!”
If we do this, we will be OK! That is my story and I am sticking to it!
…………………….
I am sorry.
I tell the world what I think. I speak “my Truths.”
And despite the loss of supposed friendship and presumed friends,
I would do it over and over and over again.
Love,
pvm
7 S’s / VV->^^
