Just downloaded Long Live by The Chariot. It's pretty freaking amazing. Might fall asleep to it tonight.....
"'This world,' he cries, 'is not my place.'"
I got this picture from Chowon that I had forgotten. It's really great, but she says she wanted to photoshop it. I told her to send it to me anyway and then photoshop it and send it again lol. I wonder what she'll do with it... I am too eager, maybe I should have let her photoshop it before she sent it to me. In a few weeks, we'll add them to our facebooks at the same time. -- after she gets back from Cambodia.
I kinda want to give Tyler "Wayman" Wyman a call, but it's too late.
There's a feeling of belonging lost in the world. You like a movie because you identify with it somehow. That is always the reason. Everyone identifies with the story about the person who feels like he or she doesn't belong, but the undeniability of our surroundings carves into us the opposite perspective. We belong here because there is no other possible explanation. Clearly, however, this is not the case; I suppose we don't belong here because there is an explanation.
Take also, for example, the need we all have to be under something greater than ourselves. We can't function without a government or governing power. One might say he is better than the drug lords who rape and murder each day. But don't they live with no power to govern them? Is one incapable of performing an atrocity? What would we be like if not for the police to guide us? I slow down whenever a cop is behind me, but if there were none I'd go at whatever speed I liked, and if there were no governing power in my life I'd follow that trend and slowly degrade to something less than honorable.
But how can we be governed by people who also have a need to be governed? Even our American "system of checks and balances" is becoming unanimously corrupt. People who realize the insufficiency of "need governed by the needy" erect golden idols with elaborate histories to worship. If you focus long enough and drive out your presuppositions; if you acknowledge that you have not known any firm grounding for the idea that "you belong here", (and "because my mother/father/significant-other loves me" doesn't count,) you arrive at an uncomfortable feeling of lostness. Where can you go from here? ... but don't think too hard about it, it will only ruin your day. No. Fill your day with television. The less you think, the better. No, even better, fill your mind with things that make you feel like you fulfill your obligation to society. Why should you help the starving people in [X 3rd world country]? "Because they are people, and nobody deserves pain". WHY!!!?? What is society anyway, but elaborate systems of distraction stacked on distraction; built around minimizing or ignoring that need. There is an overarching answer to everyone's purpose here, and obvious as it is, even now you can sit there and deny it.
"They will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead"
No comments:
Post a Comment