Final* Feelings re 'The Sympathizer' (the HBO miniseries, based off the book THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen [2015]) or On Being [Unwittingly] Shaped By Whiteness/Who are you if not your identity? or Overcoming Whiteness | An All-American Aspiration

The Captain

as metaphor

for a nation torn

(by whiteness)

"I think

therefore

I am"**

The Mind-Path

of the

Independent Thinker

the Danger

The Transracial

bereft

of identity

The Mother(land)

penetrated

by force

The Mind

once freed

cannot travel backwards

Man

the Morpheus

to the Captain's Neo

How can you not see?

What is right in front of thee?

It's not fair to say in front

when the location is within

The Insides

cannot be seen

only felt

The Mind

The How

The Now

Nothing

not Nothing-ness

for to know

Nothing

is to know

Everything

The Hubris

within the Minds

of dictators

&presidents

Democracy

or

Democratize?

Normalcy

or

Normalize?

The Remembrance

to forever remember

that Nothing

matters

*until i read the book, of course.

**descartes