The show must go on

Existence size by Triton Marmoon

"Life's simplicity is complex

its complexity is most naïve

its naïveness essentially beautiful

and its beauty so simple.

Being is too ambiguous,

ambiguity creates mistakes

mistakes are misinterpreted

from interpretation we mold.

Marveling at pure infinity,

is believing it is graspable

therefore profoundly fallacious.

Dynamic is the status,

is the human condition

and the point in life.

After the insufficient rest I managed to get, I rushed to the one I could. The lady of the entrance told me that I should find my trainer in his office, left wing, third to the right. The right wing looked pretty much like the left wing's mirror, but with oftener doors. On the third door to the right hanged his name tag, a thin white china rectangle on the black wood door, equal to the name tags on all the other rooms. Even the teachers' office doors were standardized, using the same style as the rest of the building. After all the etiquette demanding procedures I was sitting on a comfortable chair, in a completely personalized office. To my left, plenty of books on the shelves filled a wall over a light olive coat of paint. Opposite, pictures of all sorts and all eras hanged in dark wooden frames. On his back, facing the window, was a telescope and on my back there was a large quantity of gadgets I couldn't fully identify. It was spacey and semi-organized.

I shook my head slightly. -``I wanted to talk to you as soon as I could.''

-``Yes. I heard that I should expect your visit.''

Caught by surprise all my inner arguments dropped. - ``Oh. I just wanted to check that what they are doing is transparent and legitimate.''

-``You think that it is a bad idea that they exist? That they found our college? Or that they have human followers?''

-``How can it be OK to have human followers?'' - He put it in such a way, that it made me re-think. Was I really dramatizing the situation?

-``Ah. My dear,'' - he smiled as though he sympathized with my cause. - ``Our freedom ends where another's starts.''

-``I know. But doesn't that mean that you can break the symmetry and push the line to as far as you want? I mean, that truth remains for slaves. Their freedom ended where the owner's began.''

-``Yes. But then you have to assume that the other and you are not equivalent. So who is being unfair now? Would you forbid therianthropes of being followers?''

-``Any way. It is not fair that people get to think of them as gods and...'' - my voice trembled, lost in a world where it made sense to adopt the divine idolization of naïve humans. A universe I couldn't follow where my logic, my basis for thought, was broken and replaced by unknown.

-``I am not going to defend it. I don't believe in therians myself. But the truth is that unlike slaves they chose to follow themselves. And it is always hard to impose anything on anyone, even if it for their own good. Because you would be compromising even more than their well being, you would be compromising their right of choice and democracy itself.''

-``I am not saying that. I mean... I don't believe we should choose for those who aren't able to make the best choices, because it is not a crime to be... well, wrong. But I am in favor of the government defending people from illusions that are created by those who profit directly from them. That is illegal too. Swindle is illegal. And posing as gods to receive their lives is nothing but fraud. Isn't it?''

-``I understand you, specially having a human mother. It is as inhuman of some therianthrope to allow the following as he is unworthy of divinity. But it is an ancient religion as many others, and it is not associated to military power. So there isn't anything illegal, though questionable in terms of good faith.'' - He stopped as I besmeared at the flow of ideas that pointed so far from north. -``Listen. The future is coming, sooner than you think. You wouldn't know, because you only now found out that you are a therianthrope. But the truth is that you are living proof that that nonsense is becoming history. No one is forcing anyone, but the better judgment of new times is allowing a progressive abandonment of those ways. Old families still hold some subjugates, but most of us live normal lives within the human society. Even most of the follower families are abandoning their beliefs to share this world as conscious equals.''

-``But...'' - My eyes watered, my voice failed me...

-``Look. I enjoy knowing you think this way. I myself am against any human minions. But right now I have things I have to attend to and as you can see everything is quite within the norms. Just relax and try to understand that these thoughts are endangered species more than they are endangering the species.'' - He was kind till the end, but my heart was uneasy nevertheless.

-``Thanks. I will go back to classes now. But I still think something should be done.''