The "I" and the "not-I"

Simone Weil:

Creation: good broken up into pieces and scattered throughout evil.

The cleavage between the “I” and the “not-I”: the only way the All can experience surprise and relationship. It can do this only upon meeting the Other, which must first be separated from the self. But creation cleaved thusly carries the shadow of self-will and dismissal of the Other into a thing. So that no longer will “I” delight in relationship, but will, instead, lord over and consume creation in my greedy avarice to prove that “I” am the center of the universe.

Kasatka (an orca at Sea World) held her trainer under water twice (for less than a minute) instead of performing tricks as was expected. She held him by the foot in her massive jaws. She performs as many as eight times a day, 365 days a year. They called her protest abnormal.