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By Anonymous
The Innermost
31 August 2023
17:26
Breathe in. Gently. Then, exhale.
Now, let's consider the imagination. It is the expression of an inner world. It reveals inner truths to the inquiring soul. The soul is consciousness. Consciousness is what is aware of the imagined.
Imagination can be influenced, guided. Or it could be given free reign as in dreams.
Its darkness must be accepted, sublimated.
All freedoms we grant ourselves are born from the imagination. Freedom is intrinsic to it. We are all its bearers, and we don't know truly what we bear.
The Fundamentals
31 August 2023
09:27
Ah, what is it? A strange word, is. To is is to be. And we want you to consider this very gently. Now, close your eyes, inhale… take a long, deep breath thru your nose, keep it going for three seconds. Feel your breath fill your lungs. Now, exhale. There. You just is'd.
It's pretty simple. All we think, feel, all of these exist as sensations, as ideas, as shared understandings. Our delusions are real but so are our fantasies. And if in this life, in this time, you must commit to something, why not to something that's really worthwhile?
The point being we don't have to settle. Imagine something else. It doesn't have to be grand. It could be really small. And it's the first step.
Imagination is the breeding ground of possibility. Let it loose, girls. Let it roam.
Encountering the System
05 September 2023
02:23
Ah yes, we come to the System. The System is a creation of our collective imagination. The 'logic' of our social, economic and political spheres - that is the logic of the System, which it attempts to present as immutable.
Remember, we were thrown into its furious light from the loving dark of the womb. The System is forever tending to that painful exit - it understands what we seek, so it promises. A state of perpetual want, infinite desire, these, among others, are deemed reasonable states of being for those in the System.
Now, let's breathe in.
SysNature
31 August 2023
14:34
The nature of the System, we think, is such that it leaves its fingerprints, its jizz, its shit right inside us. In our trachea, our stomach lining, our testes, in the uterus, in the ovaries. The clit.
That is to say the System marks us as its own. Our thinking is part of it, even these very thoughts. The System's greatest achievement is in convincing us of its inevitability and its compatibility with what it labels human nature.
Human nature, we now know, is malleable, shaped by genetic inheritance AND the environment. Thus the System bears half the responsibility for shaping us, our values, right down to our core truths (the notion and significance of these are products of the System, too).
But no System can perpetuate itself indefinitely for it creates its own resistance. And resistance occurs first in the imagination.
Change comes when in its working the System and its logics are denuded and demystified. Its Shadow soon becomes apparent. Change is then the only way.
Now, inhale. Feel the breath tickle your lungs. Exhale. There are no plants where we are to turn our CO2 to oxygen. We are suffocating ourselves. And enjoying it.
Systemic rewards
31 August 2023
13:12
On your tawafs around the System, you will understand that morality is often what stands between you and success.
In its political organisation, as well as economic, the System greatly rewards a particular kind of person.
In a crisis most expect another to take charge and instruct them. But what about in ordinary life? A teacher leading a class, a traffic warden commanding vehicles and pedestrians, a singer electrifying a crowd. We grow up already familiar with authority and power residing in certain individuals.
So, an election to determine the leader of an entire nation is made reasonable and natural in light of this.
The leader of our nation must not be affected by the morality of citizens. The leader is judged by their ability to direct the functions of the System towards those ends deemed desirable.
We bear no ill will towards these Sys generated types, we too are creatures of the System, only we long to hear its death scream. There is no room for humility in the upper tiers.
Here, you pretend to be what you are.
Breathe in, hold for three, exhale.
Post election meditations
31 August 2023
07:51
we're sorry the
person you voted for didn't get the country's highest office. but we want you
to know everything is fine.
Let's breathe in...feel the breath in your body...out...through your nose.
Repeat three times.
Now, shift your focus to your head. How is your scalp? Your temples? Forehead?
If any or all are tight, inhale…and transfer that tension to your breath, and
feel it flow out into the world as you exhale. Release.
Yes. Everything is fine. All that's changed are the faces. The pioneers, meanwhile, will ensure things remain OK, or at the very least, tolerable for the rest of you. For the kind of people who are reading this, that is. YOU are going to be OK!
in five years, you will be voting again, perhaps. this is your freedom. this is your choice. this is the moment for you, the docile citizen, to shine. an unidentifiable ballot. that's your contribution to the System. it is just and it is right. it is, after all, YOUR right.
In the meantime, let us take a moment to remember the blessings conferred by the System on the following:
a. maldivian (read male') hetero man.
b. maldivian man with wealth/land.
c. maldivian man with connections and wealth/land.
d. maldivian man in position of economic, political, and/or institutional power.
We have not mentioned the Pioneers and their coterie of associates.
PS. If you, like us, are waiting for an overhaul, that is, to be free of the yoke of the nation state and its support system, please be patient. The democratisation of knowledge and tech will give you some autonomy, eventually. Radical change may only be a few years away. Or ten. Or twenty. All we ask is to change your faith and have faith in change.
Utopias exist. So, we believe (refer to the Fundamentals) The Imagined = the Real. Yes. Soon, dear citizen.
This is a great piece of writing.
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