Sphinxed Humania

     Sphinxed Humania:

Secular or Religious Humanism

makes no never mind: The Sphinx

holds Thebes in Thrall.

Conviction of Sin (I.E. es, esse: essence, Being)

Knowing I can do no right, that wrong

is what I do (damaged & damaging,

wounded & vulnerable bull in a china

shop, opps, oh my, damnit sorry): I can

go about my busyness like Sisyphus

pushing his philosopher’s stone, without

hope and without despair, relieved to do

my damnedest best I think I can; I think.

I can.

Euphemism / Blasphemism

Euphemism can handle stuff we got to talk

about but don’t like—putting an acceptable

if not positive spin on the nasty nasties:

people  passing away, buying the farm,

kicking the bucket, assessing measurable

outcomes, rehabilitating habits & habitats,

adult entertainment, alcohol-related full-

figured correctional facilities, differently-

abled  enhanced interrogation  techniques,

gender reassignment…. you might even

be unaware you are reading euphemisms

just now, see what I’m saying?

I’ve been trying to come up with a term that

jumps beyond our capacity to euphemize,

finding ways to say what can’t be said

because it’s  socially and politically sensitive,

and yet needs to be said so a euphemism says

it  without saying in a sense—a kind of placebo

effect: by-passing conscious scruples.

Blasphemism?

For how I  knee-jerk label stuff from out of

the box and beyond –like say what 3 little

piggies might exclaim when BB Wolf huffs

& puffs, inviting them out, come  out of your

brick house all ye all ye inn free inn free.  

Unimaginable. Inconceivable. Not  by the

hairs on my chinny chin chins.

Blasphemy?

Because it goes against my brick-house

ecologic, a threat to my  homeland security

3 little piggie sustainability issues &

environ-mentality..

How to euphemize blasphemy without

diminishing its cutting edge?  Without

generating undue offense or impenetrable

defense: how to make  monkey-see-monkey-

do busyness out of the pseudo logical-rationalist

environ-mental Flatland post-literate neo-oral

lap-top dancing restless legs cell-phone-itus

matrix we swim in so to speak: how to do

justice to the Dark Ages AND The Age of  

Enlighten-mental Reasons Why without

giving either the upper hand?

Stalwart Pioneers toward Frontiers Yet Unknown?.

(euphemistic if not blasphemy)

They who know of no purer sources of

truth, who have traced up its stream no

higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the

Bible and the Constitution, and drink

at it there with reverence and humility;

but they who behold where it comes

trickling into this lake or that pool,

gird up their loins once more, and

continue their pilgrimage toward

its fountain-head.  (Thoreau, “Civil

Disobedience?)