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Hi all:
I have no idea how many of you will read this after it's been so long since I stopped posting. I've been reading the comments you've made after I left and I feel I didn't properly explain my decision to leave.
First of all, thank you all so much for your interest in what I have said here. It means a lot that there are still people out there who have some interest in our society's fate. I was also moved that I actually had some impact during the short time I regularly posted.
But that was not the only reason I left. Though I didn't see any response and so didn't much see the point in posting (something I now realize was a misconception), I had other reasons.
In my life I have went through several metamorphoses, most of which have improved me as a person and deepened my mind and spirit. However, while I was posting I found myself being filled with a hateful being that posessed my entire thought processes. In analysis of my own mental state, I discovered the source of my hatred.
When one lowers oneself to the level of a critic, and a critic alone, then the mind conforms to fit its purpose. The mind can now find only misfortune and corruption in the world, and knows only complaint. For some, they can escape this effect with some ease. As I have always been a black-or-white person, I could not find the same way out.
If you are familiar with the narrative of the fool and the knave you will understand. I grew constantly more concerned that I was merely fitting into their little formula and serving my purpose by balancing the system. Their little doublethink routing that carries so many off in haste.
I realized that I was transforming from a social commentator to a fool, one who criticizes and criticizes but never seeks to change. What was I saying that no one else could say? What could I contribute that no one else could contribute? Passion, yes, but only the kind that destroys through its own self-destruction. So much more is achieved through civil action and introspection, or legitimite journalism.
I could not, in good conscience, do that to either myself or anyone who read my posts. One commentator noted that we need to act on our beliefs. Too true. Complacency has obstructed our purpose for too long. But most do not realize that at some point one begins to lose one's originality and, though one may speak words of protest, you are merely feeding the Establishment's purpose. If you've read 1984, then you'll understand what I'm saying.
It has come on to go back to my roots of pure social commentary, not negative spouting off of anger; that benefits no one. I now have more time to work on my novels and articles, through which I would like to believe I have more chance of changing the world.
If you would like to email me for any reason, then please contact me at paganpoetica@gmail.com. I never turn down a chance for a discussion of the issues. Thanks for the time you've devoted to listening to me. I hope that the universe brings us together again.
Namaste.