The morning dream

  They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.- Edgar Allan Poe.

                                        The weight you ask me to share with you, you simply cannot take. Only the paper is capable enough. If it’s beautiful on the paper, you will be less than burdened when it reaches you. So don’t ask me of the past, rather read it.

                                        You are conglomeration of many abstractions like me. Yes, I am an abstraction, you are concrete. I am the criminal; I am the artist, the profession, your religion, the fetish, the obsession, the infatuation. You are nothing. You are neither sanity nor insanity. You grow no more than birth. I am the joy, the pain, the love, the culprit. You have no malice. I am but just a single abstractions, there are many like me as there are many like you. You have become me and much other abstraction, the world is physical, it sees physical, it works metaphysically, in my realm of abstractions.

                                                         In childhood, I was neither the object of your curiosity, nor your curiosity, I was only the conclusions of those experiments, just the ones that you understood. I, that abstraction, the embodiment of those conclusions made you what you are today. I was not what you saw or heard, or your sight or ear, but what you understood. I was not what happened to you or the one who did it, I was your understanding of that event. In this world, I will never be judged, neither were you when you were a child. I just told you cannot grow, I can.

                                                 In youth, you read, you interacted, and I was the premise on which you judged ideas, people, and things. Now you can do a veracious little thing, act. Your actions has physical implications but are based on me. Thus, no actions are just physical. There exists a catalog of metaphysical inspirations, none of them accountable for it. I was not the thing that you stole neither the act of stealing. I was the inspiration behind stealing. I am made of constant movement, of motion, of action, but not yours. You ignite abstractions like me into your fellow human beings through your actions, just like I was ignited by what you were around and your other abstractions.

                                                  I was not a choice; I was your only extreme, where you had to settle, that unseen extreme like ocean from one end, you did not choose to stand at that end but it did not mattered because you could only imagine the extreme. Your choices were indeed constrained by another abstraction, imagination. The inspiration of great human artifacts throughout history, a weapon in disguise!  In this world, the choices, the roads, the doors are only for those well-endowed with imagination. For the rest, there is madness, which is indeed the force above you and me.     

                                                   Imagination rovers in the dark for some light, desperate, frantic; it launches itself into unexplored dimensions. One of such dimension is madness. But one simply cannot imagine madness, because madness is not a slave to some conventional light to which imagination is bound to reach, that is “sense”. Nothing is more vulgar than an attempt to smoke sense through chartered plane of time and space into madness which travels through unchartered plane of unexplored universe. One such attempt is god and religion.

                                                        A lie has certain intent to it or it simply can be an error. That is, some lies are born, while some ideas are brought up in certain conditions that they are forced to become a lie; originally, they were outside the realm of these pair of opposites. To be clearer, some lie are honest, some are reared to cover the truth. God is an honest lie, religion covers THIS truth!  God is not our abstraction, neither are we god’s. God is not an absolute lie, it is the truth you are not yet capable of understanding, like madness. Madness, like god does not promote order or rules, the objective morality of religion which needs no god. It is wild. Religion does all those things to conceal the true nature of god, the god we can see in nature and its wraths, its destruction and recreation, unbound, untamable, and not moral like religion. Humans too have found god just in wars and death. Heaven, hell, rebirth are the appealing lights in darkness which is the designated solace of imagination and sense of religion.

                                                      

                                                          You don’t serve that god and religion; you only serve me, yourself. For all you can understand, you are your god and religion. But why are humans a part of social conscience that believes in something superior, while individually being gods? Is your god even capable of reigning over so many individual gods? No wonder you have cream individuals and mob for a society! Peaceful worshipers and legions for a religion!

                                                            Tomorrow you become a criminal, I will be blamed. I was not your action; I am not even an excuse, but many would say that your inspiration, that is me, is bound to be the culprit.  You become an artist, I will be praised. But if you become a criminal who is an artist, I will not be held responsible, you will be a victim, and your inspirations are the doomed conclusion of the society you live in! This subjective morality of society when contrasted with religion’s objectivity simply shows the incompatibility of morality, society and religion. 

                                                         I am an abstraction; you can get rid of me any time. Just close your eyes and dream of me leaving you like the black smoke from fuel. Get rid of me if I am cruel, cast me away like a bad dream, but I will exist in the metaphysical being the inspiration behind someone else’s action, for I am an abstraction and I will exist as long as humans ignite me through what they learn  from conclusions of society!

                                                       

the letter with no address

 Lead, copper, brass, bronze, steel, and aluminum, things that end up making a bullet!  This is of course not for a inspirational lesson on unity and its strength, like copper alone or steel alone might not be as fatal and convenient as a bullet, thus…”stronger by union”.

 NO. (It would serve as an example but of a very poor taste)!

                                      If however, one were to give an example of such a fruitful unity, one can refer to battles in which these bullets are used and ultimately sides with greater head count wins (not the ones with greater number of bullets, but with greater number of hands to use them!). Wars neither are fought to prove such a point, nor are they won by such simple principles. My teacher once said one must look into who is benefiting from what war. If there is no such benefit, the war is like ‘a letter with no address’ or ‘dead letters’,  These nonmailable letter is returned to the sender. These wars lack rational purpose, into which men cannot be either persuaded to volunteer neither forced. Moreover, it is one of the important principle on which wars are won. But these are insignificant, for such ideas of war don’t survive the rigorous amalgamation of consent. Then what goes on the name of just war and holy war? Compelled to war or right to war? Who participate in these wars? Are benefits of war not always too handsome to flaunt, so they need a little word-play and philosophy?  What are the modern day benefits of war?

                                 Is it Power?  for subjugation of the truths that command the present reality. The truth of our modern(and old) times, which include Warfare, so  war just for the sake of war,  just out of respect for manifest reality. Or is it less philosophical and more practical, capital. Economic wars just strolling outside its natural arena, giving oneself a more of military means for its ends! Or is it both? I think one suggests the other, so it is indeed about power and the things it buys!                       

                                    But why hide such a desire for conquest under the pretense of word-play and philosophy; it is of course not a vulgar idea of fore-play before action!  Why, because tyrannies in our age don’t hold a mortal semblance, but that of nations and organizations and the democratic process require consent of more than one individual. This naturally calls for some pious objective for terrorism to persuade not so enlightened part of voters and on which certain puppet organizations could agree too! Or to simply withdraw from dirty-work themselves, and hire holy warriors for a just war!

                                       Men participate in these wars, in some parts voluntarily, in other forcefully. History holds some bitter connotations with this forceful participation so now it goes under various labels now like, self-defense, discipline of the great military life incorporated in civilian life( the distinction ends during war and so it should in peace). But men are not armed with mere wrong facts, rotten ideology, severe brainwashing, determination to win and articulate speeches, but with automatic guns and tanks (although it is hard to find how they acquire all of the above things, people care mostly about guns and tanks, while themselves holding two of those guns in their study room drawers) , so the form wars takes is a little more colorful than what it was century ago, and now it has an indisputable ally which makes the horror reach every household, the media.  

                                         It has become, thus, common practice to make threats in front of the whole world, it has been done so many times that it more or less has lost its credibility and people fear more, the diplomatic and soft-spoken persons over a T.V.  But T.V and internet have done more good than bad. As with every other thing, it has not always been used for good. So now we can see internet based terror groups, words like physiological warfare, whose mere existence depends on it. To think that without the internet, they will die is partially correct, but then without guns and tanks and nations, everything will. Internet is as indispensable to our existence as air. Try living without that!

                                          But war has always been an inevitable part of our existence. Nations were not carved out around earth through peaceful conferences. Geographical boundaries were not drawn with crayons but blood. So why sweat over the inevitable? Why because, it has never been a threat to the annihilation of the blue planet. Its reach has never been this wide and the decimation (much larger in scale than Romans) which it’ll entail is unimaginable. It is advisable not to fill one’s void with such imagination for to paint such a picture, the canvas could not simply be placed in one direction.

                                           Now that every other nations allege each other of the famous ‘snake in the backyard’ proverb, it is insignificant to know that what comprises a bullet, it is enough to understand that it does not have a will of its own, those who kill and die, they do it for nations, it is a relief for them to know these bullets don’t actually hold their individual address but it cannot be denied that they don’t hold any address at all.