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kingtycoon ([personal profile] kingtycoon) wrote2022-05-27 11:19 am

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A lot of conversation in the moral or political sphere seems to spin out of metaphors of forests, animals, wolves & dogs, sheep. Charismatic terrestrial megafauna & biomes. But it looks more to me that the ocean is the better metaphor, mouths all the way - all against all but alienated to the point where malice isn't even a consideration, aggression isn't a liminal state, it's a reflexive behavior unlinked to emotion. Collective structures aren't benign corals & sheltered reefs prevail through liberal use of poison, retroactive hostility that serves to instruct deterrence rather than to execute vengence. Mouths all open & hungry or fenced in by sacrificial envenomings. I see it, more