Modern people are hard-pressed by their bad conscience and have heard enough about guilt and sin. “Patients,” like the young man, internally divided, must cling to their illusions. The strongest and healthiest behavior is to be faithful to the will of one’s being.
The Colorful Prince follows the adage of William Blake: the fool who persists in their folly will become wise.
What the young man seeks goes back to a time when social and structural reciprocity were the rule, to recapture what we’ve lost and correct a system that demands we stay lost.
Human beings are meant to be nurtured through touch. There's a circuit in our brain dedicated to sensual delight that accentuates the sheer pleasure of living.
The Colorful Prince recognizes the “foolishness” of voluntary kinship that nurtures through physical touch, one that expands the definition of family because touch is essential for human evolution.
Black Americans have defined family through attraction, affinity, and proximity, as opposed to biology alone, for centuries. Only the Colorful Prince takes the concept back thousands of years when the species lived in nature in small band hunter-gatherer groups.
In contrast, if we persist in low-touch relations and environments that reduce and confine our existence to white boxes, making us similar to zoo animals, we can continue to adapt to such conditions, but that doesn't mean we can thrive in them. Nor does it mean that those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it that never cares for anything else thereafter find a resolution.
