What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
We are all born and someday we__l all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn__ a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure _ to experience the world as a dynamic presence _ as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn__ be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn__ be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can__ cool boiling waters in Russia. I can__ be Picasso. I can__ be Jesus. I can__ save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.
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We are all born and someday we__l all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn__ a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure _ to experience the world as a dynamic presence _ as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn__ be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn__ be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can__ cool boiling waters in Russia. I can__ be Picasso. I can__ be Jesus. I can__ save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.
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