The alarm sounds and we are afraid. The alarm says, "run, protect yourself, stay alive." The alarm rings in the body and the mind to make us zig-zag away from danger. Avoiding danger is the work of the body. Seeing danger is the work of the mind.
None of this has anything to do with us. It is a place we live. It is a house that will one day not survive the wind and weight of snow. We are visitors, caught up and amazed by the customs, the way things work here.
This place runs on fear. Fear creates the illusion of evil. Fear makes invisible the strands that join us. And it makes us forget why we came to visit in the first place.
The air raid and the fire alarm, the raised voice before a rejection, the darkness falling on an unfamiliar street -- it is merely content obscuring meaning.
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