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.”
“It is not enough that I lose, Others also must win.”
BOW! WOW! YUM! YUM! YUM!
Equals:
OW! OW! OW! 9-1-1!
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)
␣ Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so, between the two of them,
They licked the platter clean
It’s not enough that I win,
my brother, my teacher, my other self,
You have to win too. Or I myself lose
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.