All of their hands are playing a-part

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/05/together-but-falling-apart/

There's a fat old lady outside the saloon

playing out her credit cards she plays for-tune

The deck is uneven right from the start

an all of their hands are playing a-part

~ Genesis - Selling England Buy the Pound.

I like the lyric's pun.

We each and together are playing a part apart.

Dancing to a different tune than a rigged pack is to draw from a different source.

False or conflicted premise logically and automatically results in an outcome in like kind.

Garbage in; garbage out.

Invested identity in garbage is a form of being phished by reaction or running off with a stolen or mis-taken identity that is effectively locked down and masked in fear as control.

That fear can pass over without being reached into and manipulated is impossible to see or conceive from invested fear set in control or in the set of the drive to control.

The drive to control masks as power but is under tyranny - for it must protect its masking against disclosure. Fear driven but masking as independent elitism or self-special.

The attempt to articulate the nature of life is always offering ammunition to the ego or masking in self-image, and yet masking in the words or forms or correctnesses of love is not love but fear-in-hiding - and often viciously set in defence against communication , or love.

So the responsibility to ourselves is where we are coming from, for the mind of deceit is the wish to see ourselves and others as a mask over unresolved and hated fear, that is then recycled in the dark by the very attempt to eradicate or cast it out.

The disintegration of the mask seems like death because it is a psychic and emotional attachment of guidance and protection, that reveals itself false and treacherous, to in a sense re-open deeper fears that were formative to our own entry and adaptation to human life, as well as to a collective or species fear or separation trauma.

The quality and felt nature of being is masked off or locked down by a mind -reaction set in its own spin. The movement of being is not in time and space but is felt as the awareness in which time and space are already in expression. But a conceptual ruleset has forgotten spontaneous or unselfconscious alignment of a love of life in exchange for a mind of definition set as prediction and control - which is running 'as if' and investing emotionally in imaginative modelling of past and future to the dissociative denial of presence. Sacrificing the living to protect the Model, or Image.

“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality". ~Michael Ellner

Falling apart allows for the freedom to no longer choose to persist in All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, as a futility framed in meaninglessness set as moral imperative.

While a masking narrative mind-capture operates as collective agreement to 'play a-part' an underlying awareness of being that contains within all that it is, all that you are.

Invested identity limits and masks that which identifies (everything) truly.

If this reads too off-world to 'run as thinking', allow that reaching for resources you did not know you have or are, is the pause or release of habit-thinking to a recognisable discernment or movement of being as a step to consciously take, live of extend, now.

The opportunity to extend and share in a true humanity is not about 'sides', so much as truth acknowledged and honoured. There is no other guarantee that living shall ever be.