invisibles

in some place and some time the carriers of alternative cultures live in deep hiding.  the cathari underground, the sufi underground, the thing that was goddess worship, the special use of special plants.  specialties of human behavior brought forward from parents to children, from teachers to students, invisible to the police.  outside they look & act like everyone else.  they create a safe zone in which they can do their thing.  through all kinds of despotism & war they bring forward their secret thing.  the responsible wine drinkers of islam, the sex positives of islam, freethinkers springing from the loins of the most rigorously enforced orthodoxy.  how dare they, say the squares, something must be done.  punishment does not deter them, they carry some kind of seed of liberation in them.  generations later perhaps it becomes possible once again to practice.