The Gladiator Code:

The ‘Absolute Reverse Contingency Factor’

“Another Look ”at
our oldest and our most urgent
Issue:
Our seemingly perpetual patterns
of conflict between
‘us’… and ‘us’
as a human family:
All US!

“It is not enough that I win,
others also must lose.”

Talleyrand

“It is not enough that I lose, Others also must win.”

                                Bee MacGuire

BOW! WOW! YUM! YUM! YUM!
Equals:
OW! OW! OW! 9-1-1!

                                  Charles Darwin

To be followed by:

The Gladiator Code:

Part II

‘The Code within the CODE’

In which, as the “upshot” of the rather bumpy
trajectory of Part One of this work,
a modest, but quite solid little candidate
for the position of
the UNIFYING FACTOR
re: ALL THAT,
✷
will be humbly and diffidently presented
in the name of our kids
♥

 “One’s not half two…”
(as in: 1+1=2)

“It’s two are halves of one”

(as in: the two hemispheres
of planet earth)

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␣ Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so, between the two of them,
They licked the platter clean

Old English Nursery Rhyme

It’s not enough that I win,
my brother, my teacher, my other self,
You have to win too. Or I myself lose

Bee MacG

One love, one heart
                        Bob Marley

♥

One US.
And by the way,
Without ONE of us…
There can be no US
Period.
End of sentence.

✷

Bee MacG.