Relinquishing the Dominant Script of Failed Empire

 

 

Work out your own _{[profound need for]} self-care.

 

Socrates, Athenian Empire  ▪    Paul of Tarsus, Roman Empire    ▪  Dan Seifert US Empire

 

 

Health depends, for society and for its members, on disengaging from and relinquishing the failed script.

 

The dominant script of both selves and communities in our society, for both liberals and conservatives, is the script of therapeutic, technological, consumerist militarism that permeates every dimension of our common life.

 

That script has failed.

 

Health depends, for society and for its members, on disengaging from and relinquishing the failed script.

 

The task of descripting, relinquishment and disengagement is undertaken through the steady, patient, intentional articulation of an alternative script.

 

Evil and all his works act subtly and by indirection, perhaps by including us—you—in a dominant narrative that makes promises about security and happiness that cannot be kept.

 

Counter-scripting requires profound reason and agency . . .  to penetrate the embarrassment of living with/among the dominant script and entering a strange new world, guarded against silly supernaturalism that has efficacy for profound self-care, deliverance that can come by way of AWARENESS that most of us are deeply ambivalent about an alternative script.

 

The good news is that our ambivalence standing between scripts is precisely the primal venue for the work of a universal spirit that is wind (not a wall).  It is possibility and not coercion. It is opportunity and not threat.

 

Deliverance from the failed dominant script comes by way of truth telling (parrhesia) about the shape we are in. And that truth telling makes us free.

 

  

 

Then saying to them, the Jesus, “Turn back your weapon into its place; for all who take in hand a weapon, with weapon they will utterly be wasted.” 

KATA MAQQAION    26.⁵² (pericope: 26.^57-68)

 

The from above wisdom firstly pure is then peaceable, reasonable, compliant ^{[sense of creative possibility]}, full mercy and fruits good, undistinguished, unfeigned. For fruit of justice in harmony is scattered by the one working ^{[Poiesis, making, self-making]} peace

IAKWBOT EPISTOAH 3.^17-18 (pericope 3.^13-18)

 

Poiesis is a separate (sacred) participation of an inexhaustible within transformative creativity as active participant; activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before.