Inspired by Aristotle

Attaining the higher 'good'...is it possible? Is good always worth attaining? Happiness is virtue, and finding virtue is finding the mediant between excess and deficiency. If you are exceedingly hateful, though, it is a deficiency of love. If you are exceedingly loving, it perhaps isn't love, but rather a mask of insecurity. If you are exceedingly hateful, then, it is a mask of not wanting to mask your insecurity. There are no answers. Fair is foul, foul is fair.

Do I use the phrase to excape the exerted truths which, as our friend Aristotle believed, were easily attained if you think reasonably enough? I don't know enough about Aristotle to know whether he is right or not. My purpose is now to learn, however, along the road I keep having these strange visions of myself in a straight-jacket bouncing off padded walls in cell 203. Is it then, worth learning? Sacrificing sanity for knowledge? I've done that enough times already though.

Honesty. Is honesty always good? Honesty is adhering to the truth. Is the truth always good? What is truth? Jesus. But in Aristotles time, there was no Jesus. Truth for Aristotle was found in reason. But human reason is within onesself. Human reason for me is not the same thing as it is for her, typing at her computer, nor him, finding his books. Human reason deviates because it is found within the mind. Logic is what bridges the gap. I've never been a fan of logic, I like to notice, and be the deviant thing that doesn't adhere to the rest of the world...even if it doesn't go toward the greater good sometimes. Does that make me a villian? A poetic villain?

If I am a villian, I must realize that there must be villains for there to be heroes. If there was no evil in the world, there would be no good. So am I a hero by being a villain? I create the heroes. So, I am the most heroic hero of them all...I and my villainery. But Logic isn't the greatest thing in the world. The greatest thing in the world is love. Love is often the deviant thing, in this world full of hatred and tears. But, if Love is the hero, and Hatred is the Villain, than Hatred creates the Hero. Only, if it is an evil world that we live in and I care to be the deviant, I am the hero, and hatred is the villain. But without hate, there is no love, which is why, if I am loving I will love all of the others all the more. I must.

Fair is foul, foul is fair.