James Baldwin tried to better understand the racism that his father encountered by calling it a kind of poison that becomes an impossible burden. Maybe the poison he was speaking of in “Notes of A Native Son”, originates from language and judgment that is alienated from spontaneous consciousness, love and humor. Imagine that the poison analogy goes even deeper than to just racism, perhaps the poison he speaks of is within the social contract itself, namely that being social with language and judgment that is alienated from SPONTANEOUS consciousness, humor and love, namely when language involves ego and drama. What if this alienated language and judgment is the root of the poison that affects us all negatively, i.e., whenever we are jealous and/or envious, even unwittingly, so that we BELIEVE we are being “helpful” when we are criticizing ourselves and/or others, like when we say: “It’s for my own/their own good!” or “This (criticism) hurts me more than it does you”, etc. Instead of attributing the inequality in the world to conspiratorial actors such as banksters as looters, and looters as wannabe banksters, (the 1% "vs" the 99%) maybe alienated (negative) language and judgment are the virtual “actors” that promote the divisiveness, and inequality in the world. Furthermore, perhaps we mostly all (the autistic, etc., excluded) are unwitting HOSTAGES who are “kidnapped” through indoctrinated repression. Imagine, then, that we are mostly all recruited, groomed, and vetted, to become provokers to ourselves and/or others. Perhaps we are all or mostly all, performing our alienated language and judgment pretexts for protests, because, whenever we speak, unless it is small talk about the weather, etc., we bully ourselves and/or others with commands that are CALLED being socially polite, being politically correct, etc.In an exercise for a public speaking class, a lot of discussion was generated by putting on the whiteboard this statement:: “Society is an impossible burden. ” In my book :A Self Validity Contract To Replace The Social Contract: A Manifesto” I was trying to write about how the social contract is hardly social, and hardly a contract willingly entered into by equals. Now I am learning more about what the essence of meanness and poison is when language and judgment is alienated from SPONTANEOUS consciousness, love, and humor. I am learning it first hand, too, because it seems that even trying to discuss ideas such as “Society is an impossible burden” has resulted in close friends and loved ones becoming most uncomfortable, to the point that I have been criticized as plagiarizing James Baldwin, when, in my defense, I merely took his idea and connected some dots and applied the words impossible burden to the poison that looms over us all unless you are able to get “off the (social) grid”, a la Thoreau, etc. even temporarily as he did to learn : “I went into the woods, to (con)front nature to learn all it had to teach and not to learn, when it came time to die, THAT I HAD NEVER LIVED!