Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Violence Bears IT Away

         The Violence Bears IT Away
                      (Cuts like a knife)

  
(Etymological explanation of the merely existential
Origins of Guilt & Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Attention
Deficiency, Early Onset Restless Legs Syndrome,
Binging & Purging, & Cutting, The Constant Washing
of Hands and The Ongoing Neediness  to Get R Done....)
 
Indo European: skai  =  to strike and cut: generates
“Caesar,” “chisel,” “scissors,” “circumcise,” “ precise,”
“decide”…
 
skei
= to cut and split: generates Latin:   sciere: to
know by separating one thing
from another
. “science,”
“conscience,” “conscious.”—also “nice” from ne-sciere
:
 not knowing.
 
skeri
= to cut, separate, sift: Latin    scribere: to scratch:
"
scribble,” scribe,” “scripture,” also “discriminate” (sifting,
separating, deciding
) and “certain,” “concern,” “decree,”
“discrete” as well as “excrete,”  “excrement” and “shit” (from
Old English: scitan
, Germanic skitan, Old Norse skita.)
 
“Criticism” and “discernment”: to cut off  and separate the
preferred from the deferred
;  “secret” grows from the  Latin
crimen and shares the same skeri notion of cutting, 
 separating, sifting. The Greek kremein (to separate, decide,
judge--
gives us “crisis,” “critic,” “criterion,” “diacritical” and
“hypocritical.” From the same  root, the Russians derived krai:
edge, brink .
 
Deciding, criticizing:  first cut and then choose, discard and
mostly  ignore the remains. Bloody business, and violence
& crime  to whole & holy. 
 
Every discriminating  action rejects  what won’t fit: all the left-outs
and  -overs, castaways and rejects, exiled  and abandoned: psychic
waste &  toxic if not recycled.
 
“ARTICULATE.”
A butcher’s term: to cut the beast cleanly at
the joints with minimum blood  and gristle;
 "arthritus" shares
the same joint root—as does, of course: "ART" -- ertia & inertia at
the junctures, the crossroads.
 
THINKING is a violence to any Whole.
 
Guilty.  I feel it. No wonder. Obligated. In debt. Ripping-off pieces
of this and that. My punish-mental studies & readership programs.
What a  pain! What moving violations!  The damage done.

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