A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

by Maynard James Keenan

CHILDREN OF THE ANACHRONISTIC DYNASTY 1987 Based on our being merely average in the field of “Corporate Middle-Class, T.V. watching, American-Consumerism” . . . We . . . the CHILDREN, have reached the following conclusions/predictions…out of need. What need? Well, we needed to know why things don’t work . . . why we cure cancer with cancer and pursue peace by building bombs. We needed to know why we know the ozone is the problem by manufacturing and producing #28 X-tra strength sun screen by Tropical Blend. We needed to know why we, in our advanced state of space travel and genetic research, haven’t discovered a cure for AIDS as of yet . . . and why we attempt to end racial prejudices by acknowledging the separation. We needed to know why we think that he who dies with the most toys is the winner and why all that we consider success can be physically taken away from us. Why? Because we are victims of a dualistic, cause-effect paradigm that merely lacks empathy. 1+1+1=1 unless you are a slave of this dualistic, western, Rambo-culture, and then 1+1=2. No longer do we experience the harmonious interaction between each other and our environment. All that we see experienced here is in twos, like opposites . . . black + white, good + bad, us + them . . . Therefore, We, the CHILDREN, have reached the fear of the following. In five years we will discover a cure for AIDS merely because it began to seriously effect heterosexuals one year previous. In ten years there will be no more ...