Maaan... "Confusion in the city, corruption and iniquity,.."
It's so easy, I think, to get overwhelmed by all the suffering everywhere.. You might think about your own suffering, and how unfairly life and people seem to treat you. Bad things do happen to good people; some people try and try but somehow always get mud thrown in their face, and slowly become too discouraged to try to make changes...
It's so easy, to get overwhelmed by the shuffering... You might think about those who suffer n your family, your community, your city, your world.. And there are many who just barely survive each day. If you are reading this, then you are amongst the privileged who live in a 'glocally' aware society which makes it difficult to ignore the fact that the comforts of a few are/were/will be created by the exploitation of many, and that there will always be that vulnerable, exploitable many... not to mention increasingly effective and relentlessly prevalent ways/methods/systems for exploiting... and of course there will, as there has always been, those who prey on the weak, the vulnerable, the exploitable...
Yeah, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the suffering... OUR suffering.
But good people, we can't let the current state of things discourage active participation in finding a new way... If you don't like your current situation, don't bother complaining unless you're doing ALL that you can to try to make it better.
Don't stop til you get enough! If you feel like someone or somethin is oppressing you down, stand up and say somethin! Don't just take it, and then complain...
If you want to accomplish something, make a plan and execute. It's that easy!
Well..it's not always easy, I know.. but it's usually simpler than we realize.
But if we keep acting like it's alright (although we know it's really not) but still do nothing... then the suffering continues.
Listen to the voices....
"...Police uh shoot down soldier, soldier uh shoot down po-lice"
Lee Perry dub
OF COURSE I had to put Mike's video on here too...
..it's bittersweet. But i'm not thinkin about Fantasia(s)......what I'm really thinkin about is... hidden stories...
I've been at home all day, so just now I was thinkin about how my car has been sitting on the street - all day....and how it may sit there again all day tomorrow.. Then I wondered if someone might walk by tomorrow and note its consecutive days of immobility (most likely it will go completely unnoticed...). And if someone DID notice that...perhaps they might wonder about the whereabouts of the vehicle's owner.
Well here I am. Been in my PJs all day but I've still had a rather productive day. Week. Hell, YEAR!!! (And it's not over yet!)
Then I thought of all the other invisible people out there. All the people who I will never see, and all those who I will never meet or speak with either.... I think about that a lot actually: the unknown - but more specifically, that which will NEVER be known.... not simply that which _I_ will never know - but all that which WE will never know.... That's a lot.
There's a universe of information - bodies, events, and perspectives - which no earthbound human will ever be able to witness. It makes me wonder how very large the universe really is, and how many hidden, imperceivable spaces exist within the known (human-perceivable) perimeter/dimension.
The unknown and unknowable is something which fascinates me deeply; of course, how could it ever be explored??? If, according to me, there exists phenomena - bodies, events, and perspectives - for which we haven't yet developed (and most likely never will) the apparatus to perceive....how can we explore the existence of such phenomena? And, of course, there is no way to even begin to verify its existence....and if we can't verify its existence, then why waste time even typing about it? Well, because someone (me) believes in the existence of these imperceivable phenomena.
Maybe I'm just on the hopeless romantic side of geekdom.
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