1 post tagged “steppenwolf”

The truth exists inside us and only inside of us.  Once it is outside it is subject to interpretation, scrutiny, recapitulation and ultimate subjectivity.  We relate it to our selves to our scopes of reality and alter truths to meet our needs, necessity and reality.

Yes our own reality.  Granted perception is different for everyone.  Our perception is based on a series of experiences to which one is subjected.  No two people have been subjected to the exact same stimulus at the exact same stages and phases and time frame unless they are a test subject, then, you are a completely contrived ultimately unfortunate person.

Much like Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf, we are all mad men.  We all have a beast that exists within.  Whether the beast is savage or harmless, strange or common is shaped by the experiences of before.  The beast is formed by our perceptions.  No one understands you fully unless they understand the nature of the beast within you.

I have the equivalent of a duck billed platypus inside of me.

Have you ever met a duck billed platypus?  no?  Haven't seen any meandering through Target or walking their dog in the park?  Yeah, Neither have I.  Oh and how many people do you know that are experts on the platypus?  Me neither.  And what's the plural of platypus?  Platypuses.  Not Platypi.  Do you know why you didn't know that?  Because, I'll wager, If you've seen one, you're fortunate, if you've seen two, you're a freak, or a platypus eating crocodile.  Did you know that there is no word of a group of platypuses?  Like flock or herd or romp?  yep, they're solitary creatures.

Probably because they're weird.

Every now and then I will meet a person whom I believe has like a wallaby or a koala living in them.  I figure perhaps another creature from my ancestral bestial origins might understand the plight of the platypus.

But I think I am wrong.  The platypus is always a solitary animal.  Much like the wolf of the steppes.

::love::

Shatter.