I like both windows in my house
I walk back and forth deciding
where I will sit
looking outside
it will be the staircase
I am afraid
I think
halfway
with my last breath
Day 3147, window.
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Day 3146, blinds.
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Blinds are what we all have
they might be open
and sometimes closed
but sooner or later
they all get stuck
Day 3145, the world.
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Your darkness reflects
the world you reject
Day 3144, many.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak
Book II
1 25 On the ‘realm of freedom‘. – We can think many, many more things than we can do or experience – that is to say, our thinking is superficial and content with the surface; indeed, it does not notice that it is the surface. If our intellect had evolved strictly in step with our strength and the extent to which we exercise our strength, the dominant principle of our thinking would be that we can understand only that which we can do – if understanding is possible at all. A man is thirsty and cannot get water, but the pictures his thought produces bring water ceaselessly before his eyes, as though nothing were easier to procure – the superficial and easily satisfied character of the intellect cannot grasp the actual need and distress, and yet it feels superior; it is proud of being able to do more, to run faster, to be at its goal almost in a twinkling – and thus it is that the realm of thought appears to be, in comparison with the realm of action, willing and experience, a realm of freedom: while in reality it is, as aforesaid, only a realm of surfaces and self-satisfaction.
Day 3143, bright.
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It was bright where I was going
there were no dumb people to see
and the leaves were still lying around
on the footpath that I walked on
it was a good day
Day 3142, dark.
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The evening sets in
the lights are still not on inside
maybe no one is home
or just don't believe
darkness taints
perception
Day 3141, side.
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I approach your side
still afraid
of the distance
and the closeness
Day 3140, me.
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The bars that keep me in
are just symbolic
and I know that
it stands for me
Day 3139, crossing borders.
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Xenophobia, fear and contempt of strangers or foreigners or of anything designated as foreign, or a conviction that certain foreign individuals and cultures represent a threat to the authentic identity of one’s own nation-state and cannot integrate into the local society peacefully. The term xenophobia derives from the ancient Greek words xenos (meaning “stranger”) and phobos (meaning “fear”). Xenophobia implies the perception that not only is it impossible for certain people designated as foreign to integrate into one’s own society but also that they pose a threat to the integrity of that society. (https://www.britannica.com/science/xenophobia)
Day 3138, Tears without eyes.
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The people who murdered in the name of the state just wanted a better life. They voted for the man with big ideas and were unaware of the path this blind obedience takes them. Their lives while working in a slaughterhouse for humans were not different than their lives when they worked in a slaughterhouse for animals. Daily life is daily life; we all filter out the world we don’t want to see.
We are all different in how we look and what we’ve been through and somewhat different in our wants and needs. Some of us want to find our own way, and others just want to follow. Most of us fall somewhere in between. We have to live together knowing that a quarter of the people in our society have no problems rounding up their neighbors if they are ordered to when shame is taken away. Those are the people who have no rationale for why they obey the strong man, the man who knows “the right words.”
Do you obey?
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
Treblinka: Testimonies of Nazi SS
Willi Mentz:
Day 3137, what do you see?
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People who don't know the whole story are often eager to fill in the details with added reasoning for the part they know. For most, having a partial opinion is more important than having no opinion.
Day 3136, doors.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human II
Mixed Opinions and Maxims
281 Doors. -Like the man, the child sees doors in everything that it experiences or learns: but for the former they are entrances, for the latter always only passageways.
Day 3135, or do you.
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If I lift you up
but only half of you
would you be graceful
or do you only work
up or down
as a whole
Day 3134, politics of the reasonable.
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There is black and white
but is the white
not just standing between
what is black
and grey
Day 3133, just before.
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Just before you closed
I stepped back
for to get a glance
of your insight
into me
Day 3132, even.
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Even the blind
will get confused
of what they don't see
Nochrisis 