Sepher Ehben: Hymns to the Logos — Cold Open Ignition

I’m here to ignite you, incite you  In your passion for critical analysis  A dialysis for your cognitive engagement  But I’ve got way more…

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I’m here to ignite you, incite you 
In your passion for critical analysis 
A dialysis for your cognitive engagement 
But I’ve got way more to say than a 15 second sound bite
Or a 3 minute motown experience can encapsulate
So I will reference my self in the language I am most comfortable in
Which is programming punctuated by seven words 
you can’t say on television

Paamayim Nekudotayim 
Or the twice colon in Hebrew
Is my Scope Resolution Operator
For my own personal experience 
And I am not here to debate it
But if you have shared experience 
And you need ears, I have at least…
A little bit of patience

If I’m throwing down and casting an arrow 
Feel free to pick that up 
And you can shoot it back
Or return it because we can understand each other
On some kind of level 
Because engaging with with people
Who don’t look at things the same way
Is the best way to broaden your horizon of perspective

I’m not talking about your political ideals
I’m talking about critical thinking 
Because we approach that the same way 
That we approach intimacy and art 
And it isn’t the aesthetics we imagine 
But the ones that we have habituated 
That we project that play out 
into the corporeal world

The meat-space we inhabit 
Where meta cognition is the one thing 
That truly separates us from “lower animals”
The Greeks have the first recorded analog 
of that statement…
When they pronounced at Elysium and Delphi 
To “know thyself”… but how can you do that 
Without meta cognition

Not just understanding what you’re thinking…
But why you’re thinking it…
Not loosing touch with but moving past 
The basic urges of the meat-bag 
And the cognitive constraints of social indoctrination 
Taking full account of the shit you’ve been through 
And RISE ABOVE all that shit 
They told you you couldn’t do!

So damn you linear time, even though 
I know you gotta be like that
Because my meatballs perceptions 
Are not infallible, and are subject to
Any number of biological, cultural influences
Or just fucking weird personal proclivities 
So I know when to shut the fuck up 
And listen … maybe I’m not done

But my 3 minutes are up…

By Jason Medland on December 4, 2018.

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