Unstoppable

It occurred to me this morning when cycling that I was in the flow, the flow being that of never stopping and of being that is unstoppable. Of course, at certain points during my pastoral excursions, I pause and stop, dismounting from my metal pegasus to walk alongside her, or sit by a verge. But even during these pauses there is no stopping. This reminded me of an epiphany I had when I was a child gazing out of a stationary bus window. I must've been about twelve or so, but I clearly remember the moment when I realised that nothing actually stopped, that everything even those stationary vehicles sat at the red lights opposite were moving if only at an infinitesimal speed. Indeed, the very act of coming to a halt and of denying the great cosmic flow I realised was a veritable sign of stupidity like denying the presence of the sun. So, it came as no surprise to learn that the word 'stop' and the word 'stupid' were not so far removed etymologically. Stop derives from Vulgar Latin stuppare 'to stop or stuff with tow or oakum' as in to plug and stop something flowing, but the very act of attempting to stop the flow is a sign of stupidity, is it not, for the flow, no matter how hard you try will always keep flowing. This leads me to the conclusion that all car drivers (as opposed to cyclists) are necessarily stupid because of all the 'stopping' they have to conform to in the shape of red lights, people crossing roads etc. etc. Cyclists by contrast never stop, because they are always in the flow - the flow being being that is open that is 'flowing and flowering' because of its openness and its self-propulsion. Car drivers, conversely, are closed; they neither flow nor flower because they are propelled passively by a pollutant that destroys their own bodies and their land. Their brains suffer too as a fucntion of their bodies since all brainpower - all cognition - is a function of locomotion and of self-propulsion. So, as far as this is concerned, car drivers are not just stupid and stupefied through the act of being carried and prammed, they are exponentially stupid for being closed off, removed from their own cardiovascular and respitory systems, and for destroying their matricial land that feeds and shelters them. Stupidity cubed in other words which amounts to severe brain damage. This is all because of man's capacity to stop.

And is it not a matter of truth that man's environment has been destroyed because man has managed to learn via science (and the concommitant absence of con-science) how to 'stop the flow' and 'dam' Nature up, not realising that Nature cannot be dammed and that she will always find another way? As far as this is concerned, man's learning to stop is also man's learning of stupidity. And this has caused him to stop his self and plug up the flow that energizes that self. The human stops flowering and becomes man, a fetid stagnant entity that feeds off its host plant like a parasite. This is why man, under the remit of science and not conscience, in the undertow of the pollutant pram and not his own universally flowing body, is dammed.