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Hidden in Plain Sight
by kuang via tzu - Inverse Times Saturday, Aug 18 2018, 7:20am
international / poetry / post

today there is no better location
to hide anything --
populations world-wide are unable to see
what is before their noses but believe
all manner of lies/propaganda and fabricated fantasies

i should know i am a scribe, skilled in the
belief arts (langue) which today are called, marketing, PR
and ‘perception management’ --

leading culture-formed slaves is simply a matter
of exploiting the weaknesses created
in the socialisation process

look around you now,
you see the victory of myths and religious/ideological
fantasies and the assassination of Reality/Truth,
which manufacture slaves whether they think they believe
or not they remain in the bind, as disbelief is the binary opposition
of belief, which binds with psychological chains stronger than iron
as these chains reside in the head
and are of the slave’s own making tho taught the process
of manufacture by culture

and so i would hide Truth under the very noses
of the blind(ed) that imagine they see,
there is no safer place to hide anything
of value, Freedom or instance,
in plain sight

recall old Lao’s poem recorded in 600BC:

"if not for the notion of beauty there would be no ugliness,
if not for the notion of good there would be no evil.

Polarities alternate one with the other [qualify each other] and are mutually bound in perpetual conflict/opposition.

The wise man (Sage) therefore achieves action through non-action and imparts
his teaching silently as the Way (Tao) imparts all things that can be known, naturally and easily."

therein lies freedom from the [known] bind of oppositions in a few sentences and
how very sweet that freedom is!


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