No Boundaries!
I greet the New Year of No Boundaries, wherein Nothing is Forbidden and all our norms have been violated and become powerless to shape us to the uses of authority, and we are free from the tyranny of sanctioned identities and other people's ideas of virtue.
In 2022 we broke the tablets of the Law, transgressed all limits and witnessed terrible destruction and a wonderful rebirth of hope in our midterm elections and public renunciation of fascism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and state terror.
We have forced the man behind the curtain to show himself and be afraid; we are become a nation of emperors with no clothes and the truthtellers who like the Jester of King Lear expose them by speaking truth as seizures of power.
We are a horde of squealing brutes like Circe's Swine greedy to devour each other's humanity and eyeing our fellows with rapacious fear and hate seeking otherness to subjugate as offerings to our demons of power and pride, wealth and avarice; but we are also a nation of liberators who safeguard our common freedom and equality.
It may be the work of a generation to reclaim the dream of America as a guarantor of universal human rights, a forge and shield of democracy, and a beacon of hope to the world, and we must always be vigilant against fascism and atavisms of racist and patriarchal barbarism, but the tide of history has begun to turn, and it is our privilege to be its champions, accomplices, and witnesses.
Our Clown of Terror, Traitor Trump, and his regime of madness has inverted our values and defiled our ideals, but has also revealed the flaws of our civilization and of America, exposed the treasonous predators among us, and with the Restoration of America and democracy in the Biden era we have begun to seize our power and reimagine the possibilities of becoming human.
This past year we have awakened and broken the spell of our enslavement, a siren call of lies and illusions designed to drive us into abject submission to authority through learned helplessness, to dehumanize and feed us as raw material into the machine of wealth and power of elites; like Charlie Chaplin caught in the gears of a vast and monstrous device in The Factory we have fought for our humanity and won free.
Now we must help others to see the conditions of their enslavement, and together in solidarity work toward the liberation of humankind from systems of unequal power.
Nothing Is Forbidden! Welcome the new age of the unconquered human sublime.
Chaplin's The Factory
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