"...That Once Perhaps Were Eyes..."

I love venn diagrams, aka Vesica Pisces

For example, I was the co-host of a podcast.

I ain't shit.

These two realities cross over in the magical land of JoRose plays Devils Advocate.

I've been thinking about this piece since January 2015. When two Al Quaeda operatives stormed the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris and opened fire on the cartoonists.

-Now-

I am a conspiracy theorist so we must assume for arguments sake that these men were actually Al Quaeda, and charged by the depiction of the Prophet.

I'm not convinced.

Let me begin this critique with, I am COMPLETELY AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE. In my perspective, there is NO crime which warrants killing people. NONE. No death penalty, no war, no genocide.

No human has the right to take a life.

However, I'm not King of the world, and my opinion doesn't matter.

With the Hebdo massacre an outcry was heard around the globe.

“We Are Charlie”

A sentiment meaning free speech must be protected. That we were to feel bad for the cartoonists, and add one more transgression to the entire nation of Islam. That “we” the world of “Rational Beings” stood in solidarity with these “innocent victims” of Shari'a law.

-um

Thousands of years of oppression, colonialism, constructing the right of way, the “White Of Way” on top of the indigenous cultures all over the world. Silencing the speech, religion, customs, and health of millions of peoples all over the globe.

...and to the cultures that could not be conquered...

Endless sanctions, judgements, condemnations, missions, and human rights organizations built up by our Holy Lord and Savior the Western Patriarchy.

If this was truly an act of attrition, by Al Quaeda operatives in response to the perceived disrespect of the one demand that they have...

Guess what, the cartoonists knew that very well when they went into the project. If they have the right to publish whatever they want to, and stomp all over someones culture, Then the men who took their lives have a right to believe as they do.

We come to an impass.

Respect the one request made of your satire, or willingly accept the repercussions of your actions.

If this rationale doesn't make sense to you, take Ayn Rands advice and “Check your premises.”

Our strongly held beliefs: Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion.

What this Country is built on.

Do not only apply to your ideals, they apply to everyone. And let's be honest here, no religion in the history of the world has the death toll of “Christianity,” none.

Which brings me to the first circle of our venn diagram, the circle of Impartiality. But first let us consider Lady Justice, blindfolded with her scale and sword.

She cannot, in order to be fair in her judgement, see who she is passing judgement on.

Maybe justice was served freely, openly, before the violent injury that Hughes insinuates is the cause for her bandage. Maybe it was man who threw the blow. Maybe at some point ego trumped justice and humans destroyed the hope for a fair and balanced system. There are cosmic laws, polarity and balance namely, that are reflected in the human idea of karma. How often do we hear someone wish karma on their transgressor? Even say the ultimate “being" God, etc. may let them witness their transgressors karma? Once you have injured me, you deserve to be injured. Now, flip it. How many times have you, yourself said, “Yea, that's gonna come back and bite me in the ass?” Don't worry, I'll wait. We are attached to “an eye for an eye” and completely ignore that, that leaves the whole world blind.

We beat people with Bibles that encase that wise man's directive, “But I tell you do not resist the evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other cheek also.” Or even more recently, “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

We must be impartial to our own suffering. In fact, according to those wise men of the world, we must be more compassionate to those whose blatant (or latent) suffering lashes out against others. The reason we venerate Jesus is that in the stories of his life he does the hardest things. The behaviors we aspire to but fall short of. Consider that he was vilified, beaten, tortured, and as he hung dying on the cross, he asks the great creator to forgive and love his abusers, for truly humans know not what they do.

Impartiality means that we cannot hold our own rights above others. Yes, this goes both ways. It also requires us to accept the reality that our freedoms, more than likely infringe on the freedoms of someone else. Impartiality makes us blindfold our suffering so that we do not hold it against those that we encounter. That we meet every soul with an open heart, even beyond a blow that they serve. Most importantly if we MUST walk the Earth wearing our ideology as a backpack that we tread lightly.

Back around to Lady J, maybe the easiest way, the only way to sway justice to a healthy balance is to level the playing field as she attempts to with her scales.

We have allowed a victimhood consciousness to be created within us. We have been mediated to believe that we are “special” and “persecuted.” That the powers that “be” are out to get “us,” whoever we are. To some extent this is true. The “West” is filled with right-winged liberals and oppressed majorities. Yes, that statement goes both ways. The stereotypical “majority”, CIS white Christian, are being pressed into changing their beliefs to fit a progressive culture. The stereotypically “oppressed” people of color, gender queer, religious, new age, youth, spectrum sexuality, aka the majority of the world, expect for people who don't understand them to accept them before they feel like they belong in society. The righteous liberal, certain that they are on the right side of history, condemning the “deplorable” masses still stuck in 1923, and the right wing conservatives knowing how bad it is on the bottom aiming to hold on whatever liberties they feel that they have left.

Leveling the playing field means that, as I noted in the early parts of the 2016 election, when you mute the TV, Bernie Sanders was no different than Donald Trump. We are one in our fears and vibrational transgressions. Balancing the scales is the realization that you ARE the other. That the only way we can recognize the flaws in another is to be familiar with them (even if only on a subconscious level) in ourselves. That is, check yourself every time you move to check another. Quick to pass the blame to the next, because the next is never a mirror. Change your ways, take a look at yourself and boycott your own ideology. Quiet down in public and scream at yourself in private. We want to protest and boycott and strike because Trump is in office, but Trump is America. Trump doesn't make America look bad. Trump is an opportunity for America to look at itself. We made this mess. Complaining about a failed businessman reality TV star, appointing officials that can barely spell government correctly, but won't look at our own addiction to the Kardashians and Scandal. “It's only entertainment.” Yes, it should be, but acting went from imitating human interaction (badly) with the invention of the motion picture, to reflecting human interaction in the late 20th century, to literally GOVERNING HUMAN INTERACTION (badly) in the 21st century.

Finally, we come to the sword, the coercive power of the court, and the last resort. When all else fails, burn it down. Burn the money, the flag, the cross, the degree, the title, the accolade. Turn off the TV, stop celebrating the materials under the disguise of hol(y)days. Stop worshipping false idols. Stop writing to your senators and take the force of your own temporal power to destroy the broken system. Burn this shit down until all thats left is ashes of everything we thought we knew. Maybe then we can restore that attribute to God himself. For "the quality of mercy is not strain'd." Destroy power by destroying your own ideologies. Start saying I love you more. Talk to strangers. Be late to work to help someone, who could never help you in return. Season justice with mercy and let's finally remove the bandage.

And as the Western world falls, let us dance together in love on the embers.

That Justice is a Blind Goddess

Is a thing to which we Blacks are wise

Her bandage hides two festering sores

That once perhaps were eyes.

Hughes 1923