Reality-Truth...

Leonard Nimoy as Spock from “Amok Time,” TOS, first aired September 15, 1967

 © 13 December 2020, the Griot Poet

It is defined as “reality-truth” in Vulcan religion/philosophy, emotional self-control methods, and pacifism teachings. The term “o’thia” is also known simply as logic.

 

From: The Original Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, See TOS novel: Spock’s World, by Diane Duane.

 

The fictional Vulcans are not without emotion,

It’s just that they watched their civilization,

Descend into tribal warfare, and ruin,

 

Sarek made his people face o’thia: “reality-truth,”

Probably ignored at first,

Until the reality of

 

Neutron bombs ripped relativistic particles,

Through Vulcan copper green blood, and flesh,

Cynically leaving idols and buildings,

Forging valleys filling with calcified dry bones,

 

Vulcan women, men, and children,

Ponn Farr – the season of “mad loving” suspended,

For last rite ceremonies,

 

Enough!

 

Experience isn’t the best teacher:

Other people’s experiences are the best teachers,

Even if those people are fictional,

Gene Roddenberry tried to envision,

 

At least between a world’s citizens,

There would be cooperation: peace.

Wars over territories would cease,

Passions and irrational emotions moderated with o’thia: reality-truth, logic,

 

Not the fantasy of “reality TV,”

That puts a two-bit tweeting conman,

In charge of the nuclear triad,

And a mad, personally cult led by a psychopath,

 

We are a country in the aftermath of being gaslighted by a man his clinical psychologist niece says is so delusional, he can gaslight himself.

Whatever he says in a given instance is “true” at that moment,

As truth has become fiction,

To a sizable faction,

Of the United States electorate,

And their elected representatives,

Violating section III of The Fourteenth Amendment,

One-hundred, twenty-six in the House of Representatives,

Ken Paxton, and seventeen other attorneys general,

Co-signed sedition:

 

The 14th Amendment, Section III:

 

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

 

Let us learn from this experience,

If The Constitution is our founding document,

Why not try following it?

Remove the perpetrators of this sedition from the American experiment,

 

Artemis is our next “small step,”

Before we can cooperate to build relativistic starships,

 

It would guarantee

Our survival as a species:

It would be o’thia - reality-truth: logic.

 

“Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We can not. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa in the movie Black Panther, Rest In Power.