THe PLAY"S the THING

The PLAYS the Thing

BIAS & BELIEF systems

PREJUDICE & CONVICTION

Crying THEATER!  THEATER!

       in a crowded fire.

  Raise the dead. Don't matter if
  they walk or not. It's the raising
  that counts. Isak Dineson wrote
  every day without hope and
  without despair.

Say for the sake of argument that I am

biased & prejudiced, filled with  belief

and  conviction regarding, race, class,

gender, body weight,  religious &

political  frame of mind-set—family

jewels:  my directional navigational

algorithms, say,  sealed-in and protected

by my homeland security distant early

warning bells and  whistles.

    

Passionate.  Give me credit for passion.

I am not indifferent, say—and all my

experience, facts, stats, data, media,

logic and sermons  confirm my bias/

belief/prejudice/convictions—

reinforce and validate because that’s

what they are good for: framing my

outlook and attitude: to organize hap,

(what happens) in accord with my

mind-set.

What changes my mind? Reconfigures?
Recalibrates?  Reforms. Maybe transforms?

Are you sure you know? I have  (for the sake
of  argument) a Monumental Ego