No Evil Monkeys
Paradigm shift the interpretation
The current meme figurine
Is of three monkeys each
With their hands, over, either
Their eyes, mouth or ears
Which to mirror the aphorism
Suggests we do the same
In order to simply close off
Three of our senses, senselessly
Hear no evil
See no evil
Speak no evil
What is evil?
Was evil present when Mt Vesuvius erupted?
Leaving Pompeii covered in ash?
Was it evil when the earthquake
In Armenia left 45,000 dead?
If so? Who or what “caused” it ?
Exactly, no one or no thing.
Perceive to hear no evil.
Intend to speak no evil
Perceive to see no evil
We are a strange lot, of
Perception monkeys.
I believe Shakespeare had it right.
“All the world is a stage.
We are merely players.”
– Shakespeare
Besides the metaphorical context, what if? As Neil Peart summed up greatly.
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage
“Limelight”
– Rush
What if it were “true”?
That this whole awareness is you or me playing a two-bit part in a community theatre play on an extremely minutely detailed exquisitely crafted over the top oxygen producing life giving moving stage?
The sun and moon. (Lights)
Your eyes. (Camera)
Your movements. (Action)
With over 7 billion extras.
Having after around 9 months of stage fright, your stage mom pushes you out on the stage.
Initially feeding you your lines, in various scenarios only to find out there is no script and every one is improvising.
Some believing within the confines of knowing that there is no manuscript, tend to follow what other actors wrote down along time ago.
A script within no script as it were, to try and manipulate an outcome that either they think they need to follow, by making up a producer. A producer that is so wonderful and great, no one is allowed to talk directly to “him”.
As other actors who also know there is no script, opt to create their own invisible producer to compete with all the other figments of imagination in order to elevate themselves as better than other actors.
“You know there is a living God that will talk directly to you – not through the pages of a Bible that forgot to mention dinosaurs.”
Bill Hicks
I can see already that this post is in need of a rewrite.
Oh well.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice, practice, practice.