The Reframe
A R Moxon
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Who are we?
We're human beings, is who we are. It's important to remember that, because the worst people in the world want us to forget it, and to believe the lie that we are objects to be owned and used for their utility, or to be discarded and destroyed for their lack of utility. But we know better; we've accessed the deep truths that we aren't machines, or parts of a machine, that our lives are valuable in and of themselves, that our existence is a miraculous wonder, not something to debate over or to earn. We are the universe experiencing itself. We are infinitesimally brief and tiny spot of awareness in a vast and enduring field of unawareness. We are each unique and irreplaceable works of living art carrying unsurpassable worth. We don't need to earn the right to exist, and we are each ourselves, and we are all us.
We're a family, is what we are. It's important to remember that—the relational aspect of us, the basic familial unity of human experience—because the worst people in the world want us to forget it, and to believe their lies instead: that we are unrelated individuals separated by borders and by ability and by wealth; to believe that those failing to earn life must have committed a crime that can only be redeemed by making horrible things happen to them; and to believe that horrible things that happen to somebody else are not a problem, because they haven't yet happened to you. But we know better, because we are attuned to the deep truths: that anything that happens to anyone in your family may as well be happening to you, and probably eventually will, especially if you live in a world that has found comfort in the brutalization and murder of their siblings and cousins; that every human being is in our family, that everyone is our sibling, our cousin.
We are a natural system, is what we are. It's important to remember that—the systemic aspect of us, the collective reality—because the worst people in the world want us to forget it and to believe their lies instead: to believe that the wealth they stole comes from them as an original source of thriving rather than from the generative sustain human collective from which they stole it; that the society we live in is not an inherited system that includes a responsibility to maintain or improve it; to believe that improvement itself is impossible and the malicious and brutal aspects of that inheritance are immutable and immovable facts. But we know better, because we are attuned to the deep truths: that improvement has happened before and therefore can happen again; that even though the brutal supremacist instinct was present from the very start, it has retreated before and can be made to retreat again; that a system is what it does, so a system built to eat human beings will never stop eating as long as humans remain to devour; and that a system that ensures that humans thrive will not stop expanding to provision for the needs of humans until no human need remains.
Human beings. Art. Family. A natural system. That's what we are.
I think that's worth safeguarding.
What might we want to change …
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