The categ'ries of CLEAN & UNCLEAN were
within my lifetime, until recently,
in daily life applied mostly to sur-
fa-ces of what's most close to inner life;
like skin, or clothing, utensils, abodes!
And often we have made machines that will
enable us to not simply dispose
of unclean things, but make them clean again.
If not machines, then mechanisms which
if followed pretty carefully will mean
that life seems smoother, pleasanter..; the glitch
is who determines what it is to "seem.."
..seem smother, pleasanter, appropriate,
or fit; the way that humans ought to be
above the animals, not over-rate-
ed, but a human culture which sets free.
Then COVID19 came along and we
became more in-ter-est-ed in what is
under the surface, what can not be seen,
and in this, now our culture's more like his,
who lived within the First Century when Rome
then ruled the world, & culture from the Greeks,
and Persians, still affected ev'ry home
which commerce had connected with affects.
And now the system of our statecraft and
our trade is bringing outcomes just the same
as ancient CLEAN & UNCLEAN understand-
ings, ancient categ'ries have come again.
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