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When a Pied Piper is Gone, are they Really Gone?

When a Pied Piper is Gone, are the Really Gone? 

 

Actually, no and no.

 

 

No, they don't die. 

1. Pied Pipers just don't die. They may move on to another venue, town, or set of "rally populist followers", but they just seem to live on. 

 

And, they do what they do: they con, they take. They never stop this, they never change or "recover". 

 

2. If they create a void by leaving some venue, community, or group, they both move on to the next "bigger and brighter" coffer of innocence, value, souls, or wealth.....but, the void is quickly filled with other sub-Pied Pipers. They rush in. They need a place to do their own egoic thefts. 

Just on this very day, it was reported that Ted Cruz is jostling with other conservative populist leaders to take over Trump's current role, and take over his populist dedicated follower base: 30% of Americans willing to give fund endlessly, attend rallies, and absorb false propaganda and conspiracy theories to be spun in the future.  Will Trump easily give up? We don't know for sure, but only know he'll move on to a enterprise that is that of the Pied Piper: taking, servicing his ego, and filling his own coffers. He is raising 50 million dollars a week now from his voter base: this loss of presidency is the greatest money maker he has ever had, and he finally found how to work it all.

What we do know, is that this functions like a pack of lions or troop of gorillas: there are plenty of younger males ready to fight to the death to take over the top role. It may be bloody, or if Trump is so distracted with building casinos in Russia, he may piss on the Washington DC dramas.

No, they just get replaced quickly.

Who takes the Innocence? pt 3

Be sure to see how to use the photographer's cropping tool in this prior post, to understand then how to do this next step. 

 

 

https://thedarkknot.blogspot.com/2021/01/its-in-chidrens-faces-taking-of.html 

And, here are the paintings you'll need: 

 

 Google search of Pied Piper Paintings

 

 

 

To crop out the Pied Pipers, to find that sub-story, so one can take a look at the character portrayed. 

 

 Then, what character do you see? Take 5-10 minutes per cropped story of the Taker of Innocence. 

 

 

 

 

 

It's in the Chidren's Faces: The Taking of Innocence, pt 2

 I'm a life-long photographer, though my profession was in the allied health professions, clinical therapist. On a recent trip to Ecuador, I used my approach to photos, and took 3,000 of them over a month. Then, the editing principle was done: take as many photos as you can because there are no more constraints to buy and develop film. And, of 10 to 20 photos of some scene, you'll find a few that are very crisp to use. The next step is not to edit each photo as a whole, but to use a real or mental "photography cropping tool". 

Cropping 

a. corrects

b. simplifies

d. but most importantly, it helps one to find the 3-7 mini stories in EACH photo that is clear, crisp enough to work with. 

Unfortunatley, this old method of cropping photos doesn't exist any more, because software has simple cropping features. But, this averts the learning process of the old fashioned photo cropping tool. 

To make your cropping tool: 

 

a. make from some materials

 https://www.ephotozine.com/article/make-a-cropping-tool-4806

 b. buy one photo mat, cut into two "L" shapes

c. get two plastic "L" 

Get these in plastic in the crafts, school, or sewing sections of your discount store, or Hobby Lobby / Michaels, Harbor Freight. 

One benefit of plastic, nylon types, and a mat board, is that you can put it on a printed photo, and also put it on your laptop screen without scratching the screen with steel or aluminum types. 

 

 

Then, practice, practice practice. Move and slide the two L pieces to find the 3 to 5 stories in your photo.  Follow the advice in the link above.

This is important to use, the cropping tool, in real form, or in your mind's eye, because there are many paintings of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Take this painting: 

 

 

 Google search of Pied Piper Paintings

 

 

 

Then, use your cropping tool to find 3 to 5 sub-stories: what is seen on the faces of the children is symbolic and a metaphor of the types of innocence taken. Look at the faces with purity, hope, fun, delight, trust, enthusiasm, and MORE:

Now, go to these paintings at Google, and find the sub-stories, the faces of innocence taken: 

https://tinyurl.com/y3qjgpnk

 

 

For me, I see these themes of the taken, and:

 

loss of reaching out, touch, connection

fun

delight

some paintings have mostly girls, which could imply a loss of the feminine aspects / part / half of a soul in a person or in society

and allied with this, the final cropped story is of a little boy with spring flowers: that boy is not forced yet into the loss of this half of one's self, to have to act masculine, tough, be dirty (that's ok for any boy or girl), but the paintings of the children being taken: little boys are not contaminated with a toxic masculinity. They can enjoy a flower, and not be in a rigid gender role forced on them by society or families ("My boy is a real boy, all boy", implied one parent to me, feeling proud he'd reinforced masculinity and that his boy would not be neutral, learn to cook, be a feminist one day, and kills lots of wild game", and likely treat women, wives, and daughters as lessers). 

 Who is the Pied Piper?

A person, parents, a political group? It's a metaphor of takers, taking, stolen. 

This is part of the worldwide toxic masculinity of our time, and the last 2300 years. But, that spills over also to women ashamed or denigrating of the Divine Feminine within all. I asked a woman recently is she was a feminist (and DID tell here I am and why). She replied, as is typical for my area of the USA: "Well, I'm not a feminist, but I don't mind those women who are." I asked here to define feminism and she could not, but thought it might be aligned with "left wing communistic political groups that her right wing conservative family, spouse, parents, and conservative church were here on earth to fight".  "My husband is really against Commies".