The Third Eye and the Pelvis: Monologue.

I don’t think that you see people for who they are at ALL. Only because you all ways choose to focus on some minor fraction of their characters. You tend to describe people NOT in terms of their idealism or their convictions, nor their virtues or their vices, but rather in terms of what they want or what it is you THINK they want FROM YOU, and in practice I see that your sense of service to these banal desires is tempered only by an entirely egocentric sense of justice; behind the scenes, you all ways try to figure out what THEY can do FOR YOU and what YOU want FROM THEM. It’s very base and quite transparent, to be blunt and honest. You might mistake my idealism for some sort of self-centered aggrandizement of the ego, but in fact it is a testament to my ability to think outside of my own wants and outside of my entire culture. If my fellows are so weighed down by their own egos that they cannot see beyond our culture and to appreciate my vision, must I be penalized for their cowardice? You know: our friend here thinks that he is leading a crusade against the ego, but it is simply the egoism in others that he cannot stand, since they contradict his own. But you are not far better, since you clearly seek to use the selfishness you see in others to serve your own selfish purposes. What you “accommodate” in others perpetually fuels your own descent into narcissism; your self-destruction is not martyrdom but exhibitionism. Your life is governed by a constant striving for some sort of balance between “giving” and “taking”, as though by maintaining the status quo we might preserve a state of perfection that you KNOW does not exist. And you will never break even without feeling cheated, or otherwise cheating others, since the proverbial “ego” accounts for the entirety of your worldview, and as far as matters of genuine import are concerned, the EGO is the only truly universal problem. If I must forego my moral obligations in order to accommodate your egocentric sense of debt, it would be bad, and if you were to make a sacrifice for me to serve the Greater Good, it would be Good. Likewise, if you were to commit a crime against humanity to serve me, I could not feel any debt towards you, though if by repaying you I could also repay your own debts to humanity, I would, though you’d be wrong to think I do that for your sake alone. We owe each other nothing; our debt is to a Higher Power, always. And that’s far too great for me to simply dream up as a fabrication. If you don’t believe me, I invite you to contribute your own views on what this Higher Power is. You’ll notice I have always entertained those views religiously. But you have taken little credit for the consequences of “your” convictions.

[({Dm.A.A.)}]