"Without Contraries Is No Progress."

“Without Contraries Is No Progress”

To my Religious and Atheistic, Liberal and

Conservative, Capitalist and Socialist,

Patriarchal and Marginal, Indignant and

Nonchalant  FB fight-club foes and friends:

we argue  for the un-postponed joy of arguing—

without hope and without despair, knowing

the yearning is the Destination—not the

destination.  Win-Win. 

Mind-Set—otherwise known as belief system,

otherwise known appropriately by onlookers

as bias & prejudice. Conviction. Principles.

Attitude. Outlook.  My irrational deep grammar,

say,  beyond or prior-to rational surface wheelings

and dealings  Grounds for my good and evil,

love and hate, approval and disapproval, belief

and disbelief and voting.  Sealed-in and protected

by my homeland security bells and whistles:

impervious,  impermeable, impenetrable.  “Neither

logic nor sermons convince”—not facts, stats, data,

fancy rhetoric, men in white coats and phdegrees

or studies-show or even recent studies-show make

no never mind-set..

I bully best I can fundamentalists and atheists, liberals

and conservatives. true believers and disbelievers.

patriarchs and feminists, dualists and Unitarians,

protagonists and antagonists, Capitalists and Bernie

Sanders,  gays and straights, overt and in-the-closet

racists and xenophobes.  Narcissists and Solipsists,

vegans and carnivores, joggers and couch potatoes,

conscientious and slack dogs, complicit and cheaters,

Yankee fans and Red Sox, those who talk in class and

them that don’t,. modest and extravert, empiricists and

idealists,  logical positivists and supernaturalists,

rationalists and irrationalists.  goodies and evil-doers.

I am large. I contain multitudes.