The danger when governments turn holier-than-thou is that real problems don't get addressed.
The basic and purest form of this relation is that between man and God (the Eternal Thou), which is the model for and makes possible I-Thou relations between human beings.
The danger is that in writing about my reasons for doing so, I will come over as an inverted snob: "I am more radical than thou".
"I am That, Thou art That, All This is That.
The Upanishads teach (and the Beach Boys echo), "I am That, Thou art That, All This is That.
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum; That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller; That every naig was ca'd a shoe on, The smith and thee gat roaring fou on; That at the Lord's house, even on Sunday, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday.
In his leave-taking to his own poem, he prays that it not be miscopied or mis-metered, and that: Whether thou be read, or else sung, That thou be understood, God I beseech!
And it is as a broken mother that she repeats her son's challenge: "Wilt thou be made whole?" The argument that underlies Mary's testament is that we should respect death.
The relation between "I and Thou" was the first part that Nishida considered, although he continued to intertwine that relation with an internal relation in self-awareness.
-JOHN F. KENNEDY A Text... Better it is that thou should not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
The clumsy line is "That thou shouldst it so eye and woo".
