The Wall has come up. An attempt on the part of the magician cum tyrant to gain control over a situation that is absolutely beyond his control. How will he do it? By outlawing discourse. Ironic that one of the means he used to enfold us becomes the equal and opposite force he now uses to confine us. Discourse. Dialogue. Conversation. No more of that now.
He will be indicted and there is nothing he can do about that other than not show up. No amount of shutting people up is going to change the law of the land. I wonder what is thirty grand in bail money to him compared to his freedom? That amount is a pittance of what he has laid hold of from his supporters. A presentient magician is more than likely ready with a bunker, designed, built and outfitted, either for surviving armageddon, or life on the lam. Who knows! Hes a magician.
Hiding is one of his things. He has made a living from hiding his agenda and presenting something Other Than to his monochrome collection of followers. Using a skillful sleight of hand, he had us living inside that phrase Other Than. It was a commitment to anything Other Than the world of form. Other Than was a phosphorescent region of anything that is not what is actual. That probably makes no sense to a reader complacently involved in the day to day of buying gas, burning fuel, and driving to the nearest take out window. With his help, we imagined we were far beyond such ordinariness.
Since being in a cult, I am now convinced that imagination is our greatest human resource. We applied our imaginations in spades with the magician. We imagined all manner of things that are other than this world, this world of earthquakes, terrorism and destruction. His dominion, what he called the real world, was always other than what we actually live in. Stepping outside his echo chamber, the day to day world takes on an unusual sheen. Imagine a veil that separates you from all you can see and experience. Wherever you go, however you move, it is within the shrink-wrapped belief in a magic man. The other side of that wrapping has no relationship to you at all. Gosh this is challenging to convey. It sounds so unreal.
Perhaps it is like falling in love.
Come on home, girl, try to understand, try try try to understand! Hes a magic man.
The veil between his magical realm and the actual world is now not enough. His most recent commandment has been to divide people along the lines of who is with him and who has deserted him. Erect a wall. Keep his zealots on one side and convince them that the renegades living free on the other side of the wall could threaten his conditions for okayness. Dont ask me how that logic works. I have no idea. Its what Ive heard on the street. It could be other than that.
Dividing friend from friend, and in some cases, husbands from wives. This will echo through eternity as another misdemeanour on his rap sheet of debts to the universe. I think about his Wall of Separation and consider what has been gleaned from the lockdowns. Social distancing exacerbated isolation. It created impossible circumstances for people. As there were many sorrowful cases of psychological damage during the lockdowns, sometimes ending in suicide, there were multiple cases of psychosis in the cult. There were suicides. That was before The Wall. Now with a wall between, it can only aggravate the split that occurs. I think of the minister, the business owner, the manager who must condemn the complainants out of one side of their face, while needing to show compassion for the victims out of the other side. The charge of coercive rape is a serious crime. It isnt explained away to your congregation, your yoga students, and your business colleagues by saying Hes a magic man.
Recall wearing masks of polypropylene. Breathing in tiny little bits of plastic. As if it were a new religion, it compromised natural breathing with a useless guise of control. If the mask didnt look like a gag on speaking out, it sure did separate the goodies from the baddies who would not comply. If its your religion, you believe. Thats all there is to it, and that is enough to move millions. Or three hundred, in his case. Some sources suggest that the magician did legally impose gag orders on those who claimed he was less than angelic. He really doesnt like people talking about him.
During lockdown, we discovered what damages come of dividing people. Who knew the extent to which children learn from facial expressions and gestures in their early years of development? Considering the magicians new wall, imagine how impossible it is to really learn what is other than his internal agenda. No one is talking to anyone outside of the bewitched confinement of the magicians galaxy, far, far away.
Separating people from other people is a very bad idea. It creates grief and pain and heartbreak. Families were kept separated from one another during lockdown, even during a loved ones final hours. As the world is still recovering from the damage done with lockdowns, he is propelling the unreasonableness further. As if bonds of being and heartfelt conversation could make his position any worse than it already is. That he believes it is threatening makes me wonder if he has done worse than we already know.
Succinctly and eloquently written Jess ! 👏