The problem with every revolution
is that its success marks its own end.
As the revolution succeeds it dies and
is resurrected as the newest state structure.
"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine."
Anonymous Negro spiritual.
Enlightenment means as much to carry the light as it does to generate and maintain the light. The becoming enlightened person acts as a relay beacon. Similar to the beacons in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, that sent a signal from from rocky crag to mountain peek and beyond relaying the "message". But this time the message is vast and ever changing with infinite speed through out history/memory. A landscape populated by people not in a line but in a great web, geographically and time wise. Sending and receiving each light in ever shifting ebbs of understandings. This rhizome like picture of human history's part in its own enlightenment illustrates the miracle that all knowledge truly is. It is not the library structure, or book structure, or even sentence structure that has kept enlightenment alive and burning. It has been the active hearts and heads of people keeping the fires alive for future generations. As it has been kept through out time, added to and taken away from. Like the running torch lighter at the Olympic games only this time everyone is a beautiful kouros speeding in space and time, all lighting the way for each other with signification. Knowledge seems to exist as much between us as with in us. The more a person scans the horizon and perceives the torches, the signals built by others, the broader the territory of our combined knowledge becomes.
Chriseddy
There is no communication with only one.
One becomes two as soon as you leave a mark.
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