recently, i happened upon the above photo
as i was rummaging through Building 14
of the PonderAbout.com Archival Complex (PAAC),

this never-before-published photo
documents a meeting between
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud

a meeting, held in secrecy,
on the sprawling campus of PonderAbout.com,
where Einstein and Freud laid the groundwork for
a hybrid science they dubbed Psycho-Mathematics,
"the application of advanced (and incomprehensible)
mathematics for the understanding
of the human psyche"

sadly, due to world events,
the project was abandoned,
and their seminal work was relegated to
the dusty archives of PonderAbout.com

until today, when i will provide a sample
of this important and promising work

O.K. - FANTASY OVER . . .

but wouldn't it be great
if such a hybrid science existed?

today, physicists are applying mathematics
to discover and describe an 11th dimension
something we can neither experience,
nor comprehend

and yet, face to face,
in the light of day,
we have all we can do to understand
why we treat each other so badly

the fanciful equation written above
pertains to shame and contempt,
examples of the pain we inflict
on ourselves and each other

the American Heritage Dictionary
defines these terms as follows:

projection - the attribution of one's own
attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others

shame - a painful emotion caused by a strong
sense of guilt, embarrassment or unworthiness

contempt - the feeling or attitude of regarding
someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless

in the above equation,
the symbol f stands for function

so in effect, the equation says
that the attribution of one's own shame to another
results in contempt for that person

we don't have to be an Einstein or Freud
to understand this,

and i guess we don't really need a
mathematical formula to prove its validity

but maybe it would help