MUTUAL MISTAKE OF MASKS
Why must evil mask itself as good? Is there no pride to be had in being evil? Is not malevolence a physical kindred to, a counterbalance of benevolence?
Meanwhile, in real-life in day-to-day, culture, whether legal, government, economic, religious, scholarly, even, educational, the true "good guys" rarely win, being seldom successful !
Only in the realm of fantasy, fable, and entertainment do the good guys win, routinely. Others wear the mask!
When Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote his famous poem, "WE WEAR THE MASK," he was speaking of his black brothers and sisters, who wore their masks to assimilate more easily, into a racist, white-dominated society.
Meanwhile, the very white dominant society was as busily masking itself as all-powerful, as supreme over all!
What we are dealing with here is analogous to, is akin to the "mutual mistake of fact" conundrum that voids contracts at the common law.
Instead of fact, we substitute masks!
Turns out that the mighty Wizard of Oz is just an old man pulling levers. It also turns out that "Uncle Tom" was in fact a liberator, not a servile slave!
Turns out that one Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the "Christ," was not God on the Cross, but man in a mask!
Well, how do you do, "masketeers!"
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
MUTUAL MISTAKE OF MASKS
MUTUAL MISTAKE OF MASKS
Why must evil mask itself as good? Is there no pride to be had in being evil? Is not malevolence a physical kindred to, a counterbalance of benevolence?
Meanwhile, in real-life in day-to-day, culture, whether legal, government, economic, religious, scholarly, even, educational, the true "good guys" rarely win, being seldom successful !
Only in the realm of fantasy, fable, and entertainment do the good guys win, routinely. Others wear the mask!
When Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote his famous poem, "WE WEAR THE MASK," he was speaking of his black brothers and sisters, who wore their masks to assimilate more easily, into a racist, white-dominated society.
Meanwhile, the very white dominant society was as busily masking itself as all-powerful, as supreme over all!
What we are dealing with here is analogous to, is akin to the "mutual mistake of fact" conundrum that voids contracts at the common law.
Instead of fact, we substitute masks!
Turns out that the mighty Wizard of Oz is just an old man pulling levers. It also turns out that "Uncle Tom" was in fact a liberator, not a servile slave!
Turns out that one Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the "Christ," was not God on the Cross, but man in a mask!
Well, how do you do, "masketeers!"