Autobiography of a Master Builder
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In the history of humankind, everyone has a conscience or at least an awareness of something for which they deserve to feel a sense of regret, even guilt; whether or not we take much if any notice, of course, is something else altogether. Anyone who chooses to ignore matters of conscience - or block them out, as the case may be - may well mean they will carry on regardless, even 're-offend'.
We can never quite be rid of any form of self-awareness (and alter ego), whether it be for better or worse; such, perhaps, are the ghost selves that haunt us, manifestations of all we see as mistakes we have made or whatever ...?
History and personal history all have their ghosts; we need to acknowledge these, if only to enlist their aid to prevent either repeating itself, except in a good way, for we are all born into innocence and goodness although fortunate, indeed, is he or she who resists any temptation to stray in an opposite direction, for whatever reason, as we tackle the ups and downs of life on an everyday basis.
We can, all of us, but do our best not to stray, and if we cannot forgive ourselves for such times as we do, we can at least allow our ghosts to remind us not to do so again; in a sense, they are both ego and alter ego, invariably vying for our attention, not least with the rhetoric of persuasion.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MASTER BUILDER
In the history of humankind, everyone has a conscience or at least an awareness of something for which they deserve to feel a sense of regret, even guilt; whether or not we take much if any notice, of course, is something else altogether. Anyone who chooses to ignore matters of conscience - or block them out, as the case may be - may well mean they will carry on regardless, even 're-offend'.
We can never quite be rid of any form of self-awareness (and alter ego), whether it be for better or worse; such, perhaps, are the ghost selves that haunt us, manifestations of all we see as mistakes we have made or whatever ...?
History and personal history all have their ghosts; we need to acknowledge these, if only to enlist their aid to prevent either repeating itself, except in a good way, for we are all born into innocence and goodness although fortunate, indeed, is he or she who resists any temptation to stray in an opposite direction, for whatever reason, as we tackle the ups and downs of life on an everyday basis.
We can, all of us, but do our best not to stray, and if we cannot forgive ourselves for such times as we do, we can at least allow our ghosts to remind us not to do so again; in a sense, they are both ego and alter ego, invariably vying for our attention, not least with the rhetoric of persuasion.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MASTER BUILDER
You’ll
find me in no history book,
yet I haunt its pages
among
other lively ghosts
left
pulling any strings
available
in their assured capacity
as
a role model figure
of
authority, the least likely
to
be challenged but by the politics
of
ambition and its semantics
I am rarely seen compensating
for
any damage done
given
that my preferred brief
has
nearly always been
to
take the path of least resistance
for
just as long as I can
until
the next player, poised
to
take me over lock, stock and barrel,
ceases
to scheme, gets real
I play mind games with humanity
in
a contemporaneity
hell
bent on putting its house
in
order to specifications
as
put forward by one of our own,
encouraged
and backed
by
various related personae
suggesting
he or she has to be the best,
for
the Here-and-Now at least
I am that bitter-sweet rhetoric of ego
behind every socio-political hero
Copyright R.N. Taber 2020
behind every socio-political hero
Copyright R.N. Taber 2020
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