Books by |
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Dust, a
novel Dust, a screenplay Ashes, some memories |
Angels, summaries
of scripture Dao De Jing, a literal translation Tai Ji Quan (fundamentally) |
Annie
(how
children are) Singing with Angelina Space and Light |
Scripture of both the least popular of humanity’s six
most popular religions and humanity’s most popular religion says the creator of
all commanded one race of humanity to annihilate nine or ten other races for
their land and promised to help them do it.
And, while the scriptures of the third through fifth most popular of humanity’s
religions say in various ways that all is one and that all differences are what
secular mental health professionals now call schizoid delusions, the scripture
of the second most popular of humanity’s religions says it confirms the
scripture effectually promoting murderous racist greed in the name of God.
But the scripture of the most and least popular
religions also says God commanded us not to kill and not to covet our neighbor’s
property.
And, while scripture particular to the most
popular religion says the only son God begat said the first and great
commandment is to love God with all one’s heart and soul and mind, it also says
he said the second is to love one’s neighbor as one’s self and that the second
is like the first.
So consider the current increase in mass
murders.
And consider that it includes children killing other
children in their schools,and that parents and news anchors eulogize the dead
children by calling them sports fans.
And then consider that the model for sports is
war, that the plenty of Earth is more than enough to feed and shelter all of
humanity while hunger and homelessness is also increasing, and then ask why
humanity’s general notion of winning is making others lose.
And then, considering the phrase “the thrill
of victory and the agony of defeat”, ask yourself why anyone would enjoy causing
agony or pay to see anyone inflicting it.
And then ask yourself why humans use the word
“humane” as though it’s a synonym for “compassionate”.
And
then look into your heart, ask yourself whether the thrill of victory is from
thinking it proves your worth, and consider how much more worthy helping all as
well as you can would make you.
And then consider how much more time and money
you could afford to spend accepting that responsibility if you didn’t spend it
on sports or on the dramatization of murderous violence and greed one calls
thrillers.
So the purpose of each of these books is to show the self-destructiveness and
absurdity of the literally schizoid notion that making others lose wins one’s
being better than others, while also showing how much easier and more pleasant
would be accepting responsibility for one another, instead of teaching that
desperately disparate delusion at home and in schools and on TV.
And these books’ main means of pointing that out is
by reminding the readers bothering to read them of how children are before
adults inflict on them the millennia of self-destructive absurdity that’s become
humanity’s common culture.
Billy Lee Harman
20 March 2023
"Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom." Proverbs 18:1