I've stopped believing quite some time ago, that we can change the world, am just hoping we can stop the damage...because radical damage has been done for sure...
And it seems to me we're not even capable of that - of stopping the damage, let alone conducting revolutions... and that is why I take all these ideas of revolutions with a huge grain of salt...
Yeah they're nice to get your adrenaline going...gives you a little high, like some drug...
Stop the damage - that would probably be the most revolutionary thing anyone can do.
to be continued...
July 28th, 2010.
This is a variation on the same theme and I shall continue where I left off...
Too many people are caught up with their little lives...little lives that keep shrinking and shrinking...I see them all living in boxes..despite their illusions of freedom and free choice...I hear it around me daily...
Life becomes reduced to kids, husbands, wives, families, in laws, weekends, diapers, feeding, cooking, cleaning, showing up at the office, who said what to who, who did what, who bought what, who cheated who, who divorced who, who married who, deaths in the family, friendships gone sour, marital problems, financial problems, health problems, relationship problems...and it goes on and on...and on..and on...and the world shrinks some more...and the lives shrink some more...
Caught up in life...or what they think is life...caught up in family, making a living, getting married, raising kids, and the whole circus...because a circus it is...every problem becomes blown out of proportions, all that matters is -- us, that unit,that family, that circle, that clan, that tribe and all the rest can stop, all the rest no longer exists...and each one believes his problem is the only problem, his family is the only family, his relationship is the only relationship...s/he shrunk her life and complains that there is not more to life...
What a bind! Caught up in a vicious circle of nonsense, and most of it is nonsense, avoidable nonsense -- had people actually bothered to communicate openly and honestly in all matters...but no -- the lies get thicker, the masks denser, and the whirlpool becomes a tight rope of stagnating water...and each believes s/he is drowning...
Having forsaken everything else for that little box of a life, s/he drowns in it...melodrama, tragedy , pettiness and angst...and the rest passes by...the rest being the other stuff - outside the box - the rest being other people, collectivities, societies, nations, countries...the rest being the world at large...and they sit and watch the damage and they don't even flinch...they are beyond hope of anything, let alone stopping it...they just sit in that box, completely self absorbed, and in moments of great despair pray for salvation....when they have not even moved an inch to save anyone else...
What do humans beings really expect ? They expect to keep behaving, thinking, acting, believing the same crap and hope for different results or what ?! They hope that their lives turn around when they can't even be bothered to turn anything ?! They wish that all their problems will be instantly solved when they are adamant about not looking within and see how they contributed to their creation ?! What the fuck is wrong with people ?!!!!
I see it around me all the time...all the fucking time...I saw it in the West, I see it in the East...hardly anyone is willing to take responsibility, to become responsible...I see it in everything...in relations, in love, in sex, in politics, in everything...everything...
Full of themselves, full of ego, full of every single crap thing that not only immobilizes them but immobilizes those around them....and this cuts across class, race, gender, nationality, country ---you name it...
And more damage is done, individually, collectively, internationally....
So instead of trying to make revolutions....just stop the fucking damage...STOP it. Whatever it is you are doing that is contributing to harming the other, be it person, nature, people, countries or whatever it is ---whatever it is ---just STOP IT. Make a DECISION to STOP IT.
