by jenz » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:08 pm
"the good appears to be a feather and its foe a giant boulder" feathers are nice, come in many colours and pretty patterns, float free in the wind when they are no longer serving to keep their owner warm, are light, gentle soft to touch, and tickle. not too impressed with boulders, once went flying headfirst toward one from back of motorbike in Scottish highlands. static unimaginative things (which don't hurt as much as you might think if you're wearing protection). feathers can bounce off them with no prob. I only spent a small amount of time in the clutches of the really bad, but I do think boulder headed is a fair metaphor for the fossilized thought processes, rigidity, obsession with apparent or relative size, ignorance, and undynamic ground dwelling nerds they are. the non innocent bystanders, the people who get referred to here sometimes as sheeple, they are not substantially evil, or on the side of evil. its just that they can't relate to extreme evil because its outside direct experience and sounds crazy. I was going to tell the story of a small town who resisted the nazis in ww11, as analogy for how feathers can get better of boulders, but have erased it because it has inevitably suffering in it, and it sounds like you don't want to hear another bunch of that. suffice it to say, so disgraceful was the last demonstration of the power of evil, that even one of the German occupying forces joined the resistance as a medical orderly (his training) and the main german force commanders refused to carry out the orders the ss gave for massacre and obliteration as reprisal against the town. - point is, the bad ones have to hide the bad to pull the thing off, and they never quite manage to do it well enough. eventually they get found out. individually, plenty 'get away', but good, I think, does come out tops in general. thats on the macro scale, on the micro scale - just look at how well so many survivors have demonstrated the power of good over bad. (not counting self in this, referring to those who were dragged through the dark mire as small helpless kids and pulled themselves out as soon as they were able ). <p></p><i></i>
