Monkeys Boxing Boxing Monkeys

January 12, 2009

MBBM started out as a discussion with my daughter who was sixteen at the time.  We were discussing  the concept of esotericism in philosophy.  Yeah, she had just read a book.

The conversation was one of those long, sometimes silly episodes of banter across the dinner table.  What does esotericism mean?  What is considered esoteric?   MBBM is somewhat of an esoteric contrivance  itself.  Then again isn’t that the case of  many philosophies?

I am fortunate that my children put up with me asking them what they think. I have had some very entertaining discussions with each of them at times.  Somewhere during our wild tangensity monkeys crept into the conversation and then into the boxes.

Thus, the concept of MBBM. Does it mean monkeys fighting each other?  Does it mean monkeys are filling boxes twice? Could it mean that monkeys are putting other monkeys that are boxing into boxes? Could it be monkeys putting monkeys into boxes who are putting other  monkeys into boxes who are putting still other  monkeys into boxes?  Could it be that I have too much time on my hands?

Imagine  MBBM as an endless sequence of images such as a mirror reflected in a mirror.  Monkeys boxing  boxing monkeys boxing monkeys boxing monkeys on into infinity. Thus is where the truth resides.

MBBM could in fact be the essence of all there is,  the ying and yang if you will. The alpha and omega.  It is the balance of the universe and the “is what it is or what it should be.”

MBBM!  If I have to explain it,  you wouldn’t understand.

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