{"id":2120,"date":"2016-02-22T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2016-02-22T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:09:13","slug":"poem-slow-mo-bettor-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/poem-slow-mo-bettor-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it awe<\/strong>
\nA gambol<\/strong>
\nSometimes you git<\/strong>
\nTheir faster<\/strong>
\nIn slow motion<\/strong>
\nMore rarefied<\/strong>
\nThen a tortoise and its hair<\/strong>
\nRelegated to children<\/strong>
\nOf God<\/strong>
\nKnowing nothing<\/strong>
\nIn the phase of fabled<\/strong>
\nHead weigh<\/strong>
\nBreeding like<\/strong>
\nRabbits<\/strong>
\nCountering undeniable cullings<\/strong>
\nSow cruel<\/strong>
\nHour nature spurning perpetuity<\/strong>
\nAs if<\/strong>
\nLife is<\/strong>
\nAllegory mess<\/strong>
\nAnd too the victors<\/strong>
\nCome the spoileds<\/strong>
\nCertifiable<\/strong>
\nThat the hole<\/strong>
\nWhirled<\/strong>
\nPlodding against them<\/strong>
\nWading for ascendancy<\/strong>
\nAs not see<\/strong>
\nWee are just<\/strong>
\nCritters in the for us<\/strong>
\nPeering as equals<\/strong>
\nOn the wrong aside<\/strong>
\nOf hasty formulas<\/strong>
\nAnd breakneck algorithms<\/strong>
\nAs mirrorly xenophobic creeps<\/strong>
\nSeeing what<\/strong>
\nFormerly cannot be<\/strong>
\nSeeing<\/strong>
\nAnd hearing what<\/strong>
\nIn the passed<\/strong>
\nWas beyond what was winced imagined<\/strong>
\nAnd in deed<\/strong>
\nAwe<\/strong>
\nThe more<\/strong>
\nAs silence speaks<\/strong>
\nVolumes<\/strong>
\nTo those slow enough<\/strong>
\nTo listen<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is an ode to the adage that sometimes you get there faster in slow motion.\u00a0 It is a sad lot who careen through life hanging on to the notion that you succeed by getting there faster than the next guy — and yes, it’s usually a guy.\u00a0 As Gandhi so aptly noted, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”<\/p>\n

Speed is close kin to efficiency, that typically impersonal and depersonalizing practice that produces alienation with grate efficiency.\u00a0 Modern, capitalistic, consumer culture cons us into trading manufactured goods for the perennial goods understood and revered by most cultures through most of human history.\u00a0 Xenophobic nationalism icons us into perpetual war.\u00a0 You can’t buy authentic, healthy human relationships.\u00a0 Alienation from our own human nature and one another arise from buying the better part of employees lives and buying off minions and masses to bolster\u00a0won’s usurious interests.\u00a0 Earning friendship and\u00a0offering radical hospitality to all has little kin to urning enemies and sending radicals to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Overrunning natural boundaries is almost the definition of modern civilization.\u00a0 There are natural processes that can only be ignored at one’s own peril.\u00a0 Things take time.\u00a0 If we don’t take time, then things will take us.\u00a0 Buy weigh of example, baking a loaf of bread or growing a seedling takes a certain amount of time and follows a distinct order.\u00a0 Baking a loaf of bread by only letting it rise half the time or baking it at twice the temperature does not result in either a speedier or even satisfactory outcome.\u00a0 The\u00a0final state of a seedling is more\u00a0related to the nature of the seed than even the earth in which it is planted.\u00a0 A seed may die prematurely, but a tomato seed will never grow into a rose bush.\u00a0 Western civilization seems in deep denial about a natural pace of human life or a prudent ordering of manufactured goods\u00a0over perennial goods.\u00a0 \"SLAVERY<\/a>Perhaps the most illustrious example of this is our equating, or even favoring, corporate persons over actual human persons.\u00a0 When things are of equal or greater importance than people then the sphere of human life will be locked into the equivalent of a flat earthers worldview, or worse yet,\u00a0relegated to subterranean living, with social sanctions for humanity raising its beautiful head.<\/p>\n

Deeply listening and keenly observing are hallmarks of both the material sciences and the spiritual sciences.\u00a0 Such noble ventures, discovering truths about the natural world and human nature, take both time\u00a0as well as respect for the guidance of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.\u00a0 Silence itself is considered by many as the language of God, reality experienced directly and unmediated by the handicaps of human language.\u00a0 Words will always fail to completely embody such experience.\u00a0 Material sciences have the advantage of studying a sum-what less-elusive “dead” world of things and impersonal (objective) forces.\u00a0 Spiritual sciences aren’t sow lucky, tempting to elucidate the nature of humans (subjective) and even more daring to\u00a0mumble of God (Subjective, with a capital S), that most precarious of places, where awe may be said and knot holy done.<\/p>\n

May you find a pace of life that gives you a supple foundation for participating fully in the perennial goods of humanity and the awesome world in which we live.<\/p>\n

This poem’s title includes a reference to mo’ better, <\/em>a slang term for making passionate love to the point of exhaustion with someone who wants you as badly as you want them.\u00a0 Of course, the better<\/em> is transformed to the pun bettor<\/em> to allude to the precarious reality that passionate love for another person, a loving creation, or loving God, will entail risks that the risk managers will most certainly recommend that you manage.\u00a0 Perhaps the only mortal sin in postmodern existence is to be out of control — as if we are in control of much anyway!\u00a0 Are you willing to bet on the seductiveness and elusiveness of love, to live a life beyond others’ sensibility of control?<\/p>\n

May you find loving passions that spill out uncontrollably over the whole world.\u00a0 And as in any great lovemaking, may it be long and slow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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