Plenty / drought –
a palace /
a slave’s hut –
balanced.
Buddha:
Gives and haves
we accrue
cycle through
many selves.
Francesco d’Assisi:
Salvation:
loss of self –
Pride forsake,
forego wealth.
Thomas Paine:
Religion,
monarchy
imprison
mankind’s heart
Friedrich Nietzsche:
Tradition
impedes self,
unhidden
will triumphs.
Sigmund Freud:
Social / I / animal
share one mind
within self.
Ayn Rand:
Nation, Earth,
universe –
all smaller
than oneself.
John Locke:
Ruler’s role:
to defend
god-bestowed
rights of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
Live by truth
to exist.
Is is do,
do is is.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:
Position,
life, world: all
illusion,
even self.
René Descartes:
Perception,
the senses –
uncertain
except for self.
Karl Marx:
Production
decides class
and corrupts
the masses.
Duane Vorhees
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