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EDITORIAL

here we are again. a path extending forward. continuing to push the envelope of reality discernment and at the same time sketching new options and opportunities. like usual, we’re doing our best to walk a straight line in the middle of turmoil, ignorance and denial – and, well, increasingly also the breakdown of whatever fake had been held dear.

unfortunately, issues of power don’t leave much room for humour or mocking. the ugliness of our human struggle has become, over the course of history, ever more tightly woven into even the smallest units of human transactions – and from there goes all the way to the top of our experience of existence. so much as it is too terrifying to be faced by most of us. even looking into psychology alone already seems to be far too scary.

and yet, we’ve tried to pull this one off. give it some literary licence and grace and –  despite the odds – still a good splash of humour. let’s hope that then, the ‘facts of life’ won’t seem as intimidating as they are but instead could even be longingly embraced. we actually feel that embracing them is required in order to truly face up to them and then move on to something that is rather less ugly and incomparably more beautiful. even if it means that for the time being, we have to move into no-where, know-nothing land. for the poet in all of us, such a land in and by itself is already beautiful, no? what a horn-of-plenty of opportunities and challenges might be lying ahead? perhaps there might even be colours?

we’ve done our utmost to help see struggle for what it is. its mindless, defiling machinery might as well let us regard it as a dying frictional undercurrent of an old, tired cosmos. to enter the future, maybe the least one can do is to step out of this particularly horrible ‘game’ – although that’s obviously easier said than done …

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London, Summer 2013