Figurative
The lines of the human body provide one framework for thinking about reality.
For some, this is the only model that could ever matter.
For others, this model wears a sheen of uncleanliness that can never be washed away.
The phallus's place in the symbolic order has a well-established seat at the table of theoretical thought.
Literally focusing on the existence or non-existence of a physical penis is a distraction from the real question of empowerment and privilege.
Violence, the length of a gun's barrel, and the act of squeezing the trigger also bear a relation.
Force has associations with masculinity.
Rape is about power, control, and not sex.
A symbolic victory through literal means.
Fractions only have meaning in relation to what is defined as whole.
Scales are always used to measure a degree of relativity to a static force.
Scales are metaphors of distance.
Everything in the history of the world can be compressed into figurative language.
Ego
Reimagine the idea of flesh as something that your perception of personal power can remap.
...and at the end of the world as we know it, your skin dissolves in a shower of radiation leaving behind only colors and shapes around the fog of the death of the human senses.
Welcome to the Western Lands.
Please take a number and have a seat.
The shadow puppets are not as dangerous as they appear in the mirror.
Your ego will now perform a dance routine for you.
Watch and takes notes.
You may one day be tested in your knowledge of your own internal tap dance of mind vs. flesh.
Keep feeding the pellets to the dark star at the center of your identity.
This makes you feel powerful.
This makes you feel more complete.
Forget north. Forget south. Forget east. Forget west.
In or out. On or off.
Center and replay the instant.
For the short of memory, technology offers solutions for remote viewing of the brittle qualities of the soul.
You remember what soul looks like?
Tight and white.
Or did somewhat rewrite history while you were peeing into the jar?
Someone has a muzzle.
Someone has peeled back the skin.
Someone is watching and waiting.
It's your ego patiently waiting for your next move.
Socialism
The government: the biggest, fattest, most psychotic agent of chaos to grace the shores of the United States of American since George Washington.
The logic buster: the market will trim its own toenails and brew its own beer.
Counting backwards from 1 doesn't get you very far until you consider the vast spectrum of the negaverse.
The cracked mirror, everything too repulsive to the human sense to view directly.
Pull back the veil and see the face of the fair and even marketplace.
Some people have the support of the riot shields and some have grain.
The worst fear, always, freedom under threat, and yet what threatens freedom more than consolidation of power?
If Obama has no political foes within his own party, then he is a horrible man.
How complicated is the game?
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Greed or forward movement?
What is the shadow cost of economic prosperity?
Do the rich get richer or do they pass opportunities down the pipe?
How can something with and endless appetite for money and power be separated from capitalism?
follow the yellow brick road
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