Tuesday, February 17, 2009

You've used the word 'ism'. Would you explain?


Um, okay. It came from a wish to do away with all the 'isms'. You know, the same driving force as the John Lennon song:

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Because, don't you see, every ism (every other ism) is dangerous.

And then, fortuitously, the three letter left after you chop off the root stand alone and with meaning. You give it a capital, and there you have 'I'. You, that is. Take the first two letters, 'is' and that neatly encapsulates a system of thought that doesn't recognize time. Everything exists 'now', at once, fully formed.

It is. We are. Do you see?

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