Jun 24
The Gordian Knot?
¹ The mesh of civilization.
To untie it is to understand it,
To know it.
This is to TIGHTEN it.
To cleave it is to try to conquer it;
It all comes undone,
Never to be re-strung.
You can be Prometheus,
Who was actually always celebrated,
Or you can be Aeneas -
The one who was really ChAINhed to the rock.
What matters is learning,
² All else is for naught.
¹ The mesh of civilization.
To untie it is to understand it,
To know it.
This is to TIGHTEN it.
To cleave it is to try to conquer it;
It all comes undone,
Never to be re-strung.
You can be Prometheus,
Who was actually always celebrated,
Or you can be Aeneas -
The one who was really ChAINhed to the rock.
What matters is learning,
² All else is for naught.
1 - Or the fabric of the universe.
2 - Naught or, more aptly, Knot. All else is which we might tie or untie in either attachment or liberation is itself for civilization.
2 - Naught or, more aptly, Knot. All else is which we might tie or untie in either attachment or liberation is itself for civilization.
