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The Magnificent Innocents

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I wrote this during a pocket of time several moons past. A time when the world stood still as the two once proud and most significant ladies fell and crumbled in a heap of their own filth as the world looked on in helplessness and electrifying awe .... I wonder what thoughts swirled around the steel and concrete heads of the glorious twins as went as they crumbled in-to the yawning abyss forcefully getting wider on the floor of the urban jungle. I wonder.... Oh, great the fall of Babylon!  The once proudest of all the Iroko trees in the land now lay broken and dis-membered in the belly of the urban jungle. No longer do they dominate, being fawned over by man and foe alike. Now, they lay crushed and dis-used like broken dolls who have out-lived their usefulness....  but not be-fore making as grand an exit as their entry had been.  I wonder what sort of conversation they had every morning as they stood high against they sky-line surveying the teemi...

Linear Archetype vs Cyclical Prototype

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Every-thing in Life occurs cyclically and repeatedly. We will experience every-thing in Life over and over. They may come in diverse forms, but, it is basically the same masquerading as the different. Mythic Archetype is not externally imposed, but internally generated with-in each person. The universal wish to be original can-not conceal that each of us is some-thing of a copy; repeating previous lives with the in-authenticity of inverted (or perverted commas). Lurking beneath the superficialities of personality, most people are types rather than individuals. Although, the "same", could some-how manage to be-come the "new". Those who believe in progress like to depict the world as moving in a straight line, to-wards an in-definable goal. There is also the school of thought that abandons the idea of Linear Development be-cause it despairs of Human history. Ok, let us explore both the Cyclical Occurrence and Linear Development further by falling b...

Harmony Inconflictus

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There are two sets of people in the world: The Ordinary and The Extra-Ordinary. The Ordinary are the Masses, the Re-producers, the Masters of the Present. While the Extra-ordinary are the Destroyers and the Masters of the Future. They are Destroyers because they have to destroy the present set of systems to create the future. This is not some-thing that is met with delight by the Masters of the Present(the Ordinary) as they will fight it and most of the time(more often than not) eliminate The Extra-Ordinary. But, here's the catch, and a fascinating one it is: The Ordinarys end up placing The Extra-Ordinary on a pedestal for subsequent generations to come. Both(The Ordinary and The Extra-Ordinary) have an equal right to exist. The former preserves the world and increases its numbers. The latter moves the world forward, leads it to its goal and fulfils its potential.