In this fine #AlanWatts quote,[ " I'm
quoting
the Book of Common Prayer. And so, all those people who are oriented to
the universe in that way feel related to basic reality as a subject to a
king. And so they are on very, very humble terms in relation to
whatever it is that works all this thing. I find it odd, in the United
States, that people who are citizens of a republic have a monarchical
theory of the universe. That you can talk about the president of the
United States as LBJ, or Ike, or Harry, but you can't talk about the
lord of the universe in such familiar terms. "]https://erowid.org/…/c…/watts_alan/watts_alan_article1.shtml (see above for more of
linked quote) . Alan is speaking very much like Percy Bysshe Shelley in
his fine poem ' The Revolt of Islam' which addressed the disillusionment
of the French people after their glorious French Revolution veered
tragically into Napoleon's despotism. The French people could have
solved that perplexing dilemma of political power
that often strikes good democratic revolutions if they knew it is always better to be #strongertogether .
Here is my own interpretation of the Alan Watts quote and Shelley' s ' The Revolt of Islam. :
glorious breeze,lovers needs
for poets past and present
our constituency is the World
to unfurl
the peoples' proud majesty
of cultural and animal diversity
Freedom' s ring
I, You,and All to sing.
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