© 2006 M. Bennett Hooper

Derrick Jensen writes in ,”The Culture of Make Believe; the carriers of Western civilization are the sole possessors of that ONE way and of virtue and that their mission must be to spread that understanding light and civilization wherever they go.
Those who don’t understand the world in the one”CORRECT“ way are expendable.
In the case of African slaves in the Americas they can be considered useful but when their usefulness comes to an end they too can be dispensed with.”
Thus maximum security prisons and decaying urban structures become warehouses for the unwanted while gentrification lurks on the fringes awaiting the demise of the dispossessed.

In furthering make believe and establishing another level of contrianism I question why stop light are red instead of orange.
Is it because fire is red and red is dangerous.
Fire is orange, yellow, and blue.
Smoke is sometimes white but if burning continues over a period of time it becomes black.
Black is a beginning black establishes a parameter for being.
Black is a sign of life.
Life incubates in darkness, the womb is dark.
The womb is a protector of life until life decides to be reborn in a different form.
Is not the grave a womb which holds the body until it is reborn in a different form.
Poet or philosopher it is hard to discern when a philosopher writes poetry.