Blind creatures lash out.
Healthy animals defend themselves physically,
but
blind creatures lash out  --  lacking physical threat.
 
 

Ordinary humans are mentally blind;
their thinking lashes out in defense of itself,
which is under constant attack from others
of the ordinary persuasion.
 
 

Everyone is a sightless apologist for their ideas;
a myopic DEFENDER-OF-THE-FAITH for their beliefs, 
which are necessary components in the progress of mankind which occurs via gradual changes that 
take place as a result of the conflicts these 
impassioned defenses produce.
 
 

Everyone with an idea, belief or opinion to defend
is blind;
everyone engaged in such  defense is normal,
and doing life’s work.
 

For thought to serve the collective interest 
it must be deformed;
it must limp,  favoring one side or the other;
it must be blind in at least one eye, deaf in one ear.
It should not be surprising that the deformed will 
lash out in defense of themselves at even the 
scantiest provocation. 
 
 

Questions concerning a creature’s manhood, 
which inflame a flea,
are ignored by an elephant.
An elephant knows-what-it-knows
regarding its immense strength, 
and thus about the matter has nothing to say -- 
--  nothing to defend;
about such strength, a flea can only dream…..and fret.
 

Ordinary minds lash out when their ideas are questioned;
from any others  --   nothing is heard.
 
 

What a blind man does not see, 
he must defend when he describes it;
what a sighted man sees, he knows he sees,
and he sees that those around him are blind,
and thus cannot be expected to see,
and thus deserve no censure.
The blind see what they see, 
and the sighted see what they see.
 
 

An I Test:
If you have views which you will defend – 
--  you are blind;
if you lash out at those who question your ideas --
--  you are deformed  --  normal, but 
mentally deformed when compared to an elephant;
if you think that others would be better off if they adopted your view --  you are moronic, 
again --  you are normal, but still less intelligent than is possible for a human to be,
and the final part of THE I TEST:
If you feel justified in lashing out at others,
then you have no personal I -- 
your body is simply host to a cow I;
a blind, deformed, limping cow, although quite likely an upstanding member of the 
faceless & clueless herd.

   ”Lash out --  you mighty heifers!
expound on your superior mental perspective, 
you insightful bovines,
and all of you unjustifiably ignored 
brilliant-fleas-waiting-to-be-discovered  --
give the good old royal finger to those 
pretentious, insouciant pachyderms -- 
who do they think they are?!
not only having only elephants thoughts --  BUT,
being SATISFIED with them!
Just who in the hell do they think they are?!”
 
 

When you take seriously the flea voices 
speaking to you in your own head
you take on the minute, defensive mentality of a flea,
and by so doing you feel continually under attack
by undeservedly stronger forces, or worse yet --
-- ignored by them.

  ”Hey elephant!   look down here at me!” --
when you passively permit this kind of inner monologue 
to go on in your mind 
you diminish, to the point of exhaustion,
the possibility of expanding the scope of 
your consciousness, and finally freeing it to see things simply as they are;
elephant things being elephant things,
flea things being flea things;
a flea’s thing being to lash out at an 
elephant’s intrinsic strength,
and an elephant’s thing to be impassive to such meaningless assaults.
 
 

You have in your own brain what amounts to: 
elephant consciousness, and that of a flea’s;
fleas will try to kick an elephant in the shins,
while elephants will step over fleas, 
and never have any thoughts about harming them…..
much less of wanting to show them the error of their flea thinking.