Stronger Than Death's blog: "Dumb as a box of rocks!"

Every ideology is a mental murder, a reduction of dynamic living processes to static classifications, and every classification is a Damnation, just as every inclusion is an exclusion.  In a busy, buzzing universe where no two snowflakes are identical, and, indeed the smallest sub-atomic particle, we are assured, is not even identical with itself from one micro second to the next-every card index system is a self delusion.  Or, to put it more charitably, as Nietzche says, "we are all better artists than we realize".

It is easy to see that the label "Jew" was a damnation in Nazi Germany, but actually the label "Jew" is a damnation anywhere, even where anti-semititsm doesn't exist.  Anytime a person is labeled for their color, religion, or social class is a damnation.  "He is a catholic", "He is a Dr.", "He is homeless" to the card-indexing center of the cortex in the brain, that my experience with him will be like my experiences with others such as him.  Thus individuality is ignored when identity is asserted. 

At a party or any place where strangers meet (mumms included), watch this mechanism in action.  Behind the friendly overtures there is wariness as each person fishes for the label that will identify and Damn the other.  Finally it is revealed:  "Oh he has a confederate flag pic, so he is racist!"  "Oh he has silly pics of Obama so he is a hillbilly, militia man, domestic terrorist".  Then the accusing party relaxes for now they know how to behave, what roles to play in the game.  Ninety-nine percent of each has been damned; the other is reacting to the one percent that has been labeled by the card index machine.  

So to the people who don't know me, don't assume!  When you assume that just makes an ASS of U and ME!