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November 19th, 2009 By Tony Posted in Identity, Mephistic Moments, Mephisto's Comedy Festival, My Inner Mephisto, Self Knowledge

Mephisto’s Comedy Festival: Where Is Tony?

I need a distraction from Little Demon: The Adored One and Little Demon: The Adored One Part II. I’m stewing over some stupid and reckless action I took without pausing to think. I just fired off my head, and, and, just made some stupid, stupid assumptions, regarding plans for this coming weekend. Right now, I am rather mortified.

I know why I responded the way I did. Which is all I will say about it here. But the important thing is, I know and understand why I behaved the way I did, and am thinking how to fix it!

Now for that much needed distraction.

I was lucky to be blessed with two concurrent chats last Tuesday night. Two friends, Damian and Noreen, both LEO’s, born a week apart, countries apart, one channeling the other, connecting with both of them, and getting a double dose of persona. You could accuse me of me of being a “Greedy Fucker!” and why not?

Talking to, Damian, he read this blog for the first time, the night of our chat. From the first post to the latest. Apart from yadda, yadda, he made two observations, which I agree with, and they reflect on the path I am trying to follow. The path that leads me back to me:

I see a battle going on between the real Tony making a fight to be true to himself and Mephisto who is fighting to survive.

When I was reading your blog  I could really sense you were really close to resolving key things  the Mephisto persona is preventing you from do it by providing more distractions.

I have known Damian for, ooh, 16 years now. He has seen me change in that time. From the lively and sensitive boy who hid behind a mask, and constantly deflected, to a still lively and sensitive boy, but more in tune with himself.  And is why, I am able to connect with my friends in ways I couldn’t or WOULDN’T before.

I quite like Mephisto. I created him as the more intelligent, confident and forthright person that I felt I wasn’t. I won’t be discarding Mephisto, he is my friend too. But as Damian said:

I know you like Mephisto  but Mephisto does not like the real Tony coming through…there was one part in your blog you mentioned the enjoyment of Mephisto going full guns blazing shooting and pulling down others, that is actually a disempowering act…………..and it goes against everything you craving about unrequited love, unconditional love that is empowering and allows people to express what they really feel….. if you seek that then you need to allow others to express their feeling in other blogs resist the desire for Mephisto to seek enjoyment in pulling them down..”

To be honest I did not enjoy Mephisto, untamed he could be dangerous

Me:  Oh I know some people won’t, and I know some people do and he is a polarising firgure

Damian: The real Tony is fighting to get through but Mephisto  is creating blocks

Damian:  I am not saying you have to kill Mephisto, because there is a part of that personality that is you  perhaps if Mephisto can be tamed to be constructive in its opinions without disempowering others opinions then you will get a happy balance.

To be honest, I never expected this kind of insight from my friend Damian. When I first knew him, I never expected this level of discourse. Then again, perhaps I was too busy deflecting to tune into who Damian was and what he had to say?

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November 9th, 2009 By Tony Posted in Mephisto's Comedy Festival, Partial Information Devoid Of Context

Fahrenheit 451, Deafhood & Critical Thought

Right now I don’t know whether to laugh, or just  shake my head in disbelief,  at the unfettered stupidity of the post Fahrenheit-451 revisted, or the irony of MM writing about a symbolic book burning action, without really understanding that he is advocating the very same thing that book burning actions are intended to do!

MM, Fahrenheit 451 is about:

“…… a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed,”

where

“The “firemen” burn them “for the good of humanity” Wikipedia

To further compound the irony, MM adds a poll on his blog, “Burn the deafhood book, to ease deaf strife?” Does he [or any of his supporters] see the irony?Sure destroy the book, but do you honestly think that the concept of deafhood will die? Symbolically or otherwise?

No apologies necessary, but Fahrenheit-451 revisted is a very, very, very stupid piece of writing, well befitting a person who abhors any kind of critical thought. Doesn’t want to be censored, but would like to censor what he doesn’t agree with.

Whatever MM’s intentions are, symbolically or otherwise, he is actually advocating getting rid of critical thought. Something that Paddy Ladd, as an academic, is very well versed in, and is something that MM is not comfortable with.

Blaming a book, with scant regard to historical precedent, only serves to highlight the critic’s own apathy, laziness, disregard, and complete lack of respect for those who are working to bring  new ideas, new perspectives to the debate about Deafness. MM does exactly this, and merely chooses to regurgitate the same complaints as he did when I first encountered him on an email group.

I have tagged this page under Mephisto’s Comedy Festival, because a joke is exactly what this post is!

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