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The irksome brawling scold is always with us. She is so common, in fact, she has her own place in the arsenal of The Immortal Bard. What’s new afoot is whole cities full of men afraid to wed, bed, and tame her. Queers and other scolds want their own country. They can make one somewhere. They cannot have this one.

The scold runs around cursing, cussing, contending because she is in darkness. A scold tries to live in a dark room. She run into walls, falls over furniture, and sees things that are not there. She could stop moving but fear of the darkness keeps her at it. This is a scold. Her heart is dark, her mind darts incessantly. She abuses others over things she mis-takes for threatening her.

The scold deserves to be starved. She is not getting well, living in light, until she is that.

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Does disaster befall a city,
unless the Lord has done it?
Amos 3:6

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Consider what happens when a person sees the dry stump of a tree at night: they are afraid it is a ghost or a bizarre human being. It is neither, though it is perceived as either. The reason for this misperception is “darkness”. Darkness imposes on something another thing that is not there. In the same manner, the darkness that is spread through false perception (maya) veils and renders unnoticeable the Primal Cause, Brahman, and imposes the cosmos on It, as a perceptible reality. This deceptive vision is corrected by the awakened consciousness and transmuted into the vision of universal love (prema). The cosmos of which the Earth is a part and with which we are embroiled has Brahman Itself as its basic cause, just as the stump is the basic cause of the ghost.