Considerations

I made the decision
O back in the hippie days, that I was not going to keep secrets and so I would tell people, if you want to keep a secret don't tell me.

Compartmentalization of the mind was what I wanted to avoid. It would destroy my spontaneity, to spurt whatever verbal asayment that popped into my head. Free speech say anything.

But of course free speech is a two way street, or one can only be free with one's speech to those who are free listeners. One cannot say what one wants to bigots and fascists, under penalty of possible death. In a small town a radical speaker needs to adopt the character of the village idiot to survive. O don't pay attention to him. He is only an idiot.

On the other hand, keeping secrets is plodding, deliberative, mind dithering, about what this person can know and not know. This would mean creating a mind-monitor to filter my thinking as I thought it. Can this person be trusted with the knowledge I may impart to this ? My friends don't like this person. Mum is the word. Sorry we can't be friends.

Censor my speech, I would need to create a monitor to decide who can know what and who cannot. I would have to categorize the people I knew, pigeon-hole them, belittle them to less than I - holder of the secret knowledge.

But more-so I would have to remember all this. What can I say ? Can I remember ? And then they talk to each other. He told you that. He didn't tell me. Why the little fink ! He rates his friends.

Turn my mind into a virtual labyrinth of suspicions and psychological machinations. So rather I tell them everything, well - considering who they are. Everything but what is fatal. He's of the other side but I talk as if we were both on the same side. Which we are in certain respects. He works. He has a boss. He has wife. He has kids. He has concerted concerns. Of all of the many things we have in common like the weather.

Of course it depends. Some are so side-sided they are dangerous and generally of small awareness. They only talk to their friends and those on their side. The other side is the enemy of what is good.

It is much easier to talk all to one person or as if everyone was one. Very difficult if everyone is different. Who knows enough to talk to so many different people ? And of course some people will not respond to being addressed as all. Are you talking to me ? But you don't know me. They want to consider themselves as unique, which is easy if one doesn't know anybody.

Overall the side-blinders are progressive capitalists and the same-siders are conservative socialists. Progressive demands sides as progressed and retarded. To destroy more than is necessary as resource for more than one needs.

Conservatives are all equal in relation to the physical dynamics of life on the planet. Things are different not unequal. Does one blame the clouds for raining ?

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