Wisdom, sleeping..
A conversation about worldly wisdom
 
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Hercules and the snake - Penni
There are brutes that threaten, stab and rob, and assassins, but the disenchanters, who rape invisibly your respect for yourself and your belief in a fair world, harm you with deeper and incurable wounds.

The disenchanters lurk everywhere, even in quiet, wealthy land; some are passers-by: bullies, small-time backyard tyrants, bureaucrats. Others are rulers, teachers or parents.

In one way or another, such people – most likely poisoned themselves - drain your illusions, trust, dreams, and beauty. They debase you. Pay the price to fight back or if you cannot, run away but do not break in. If it happened, find a way to wash yourself. Consider revenge to get even in your soul, because your soul needs balance. Make it become true in your personal life story that disenchantment is punished. On the spot, or later. This is a fight for your quality of life.

When good hope and self-respect are broken, you are contaminated. When your trust is wrecked that the world is understandable, lawful and foreseeable, you are jailed for life.
 
If you were brought to see the world as arbitrary, indifferent, perverse and cruel, there is no need for prisons, police and yoke, no need for Hell; you are banished to live in the empire of evil, until you die. No need of chains, you are crippled. You will carry, branded on your eyes, the distorting lens that makes certain the presence of wicked ugliness, wherever you go.

Whole nations get to live in such parallel worlds, bullied by their tyrants. Half a century may be needed for a people to wake up from its nightmare of helplessness.

Have no mercy for the killer of trust.

 

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