To what are the cost of my desires?

I figure, if i were to assimilate myself totally to the social construct put forth by our plaintive society, is to seriously immerse myself into a barrel of acid. The sensibility and realistic responsibility they claim and stand upon in their hierarchical disposition, kicks me squarely on the head. The unethical and weak dealings we as a society try to squeeze from the very limits of our nature and from each other is blatantly primitive.

Couple that with the lack of our logic is frighteningly hilarious.

We kill each other --> to acquire resources---> to kill each other.

Yup, yup yup... nice isn't it.

At least the ridiculous zealots has stopped pumping religious propaganda up our asses. They don't lie about it anymore. "Give us your Love, money and youth - so that we can get more Love, money and youth. Oh and it's in the name of god... mind you." I'm surprise they haven't been able to just go to the banks and just get loans to hire Saactchi & Saactchi in designing posh ad campaigns. They already make billions in tax free donations, so why not just have them go public and float them on NASDAQ as well.

Hmm... Imagine City Harvest going IPO. You never know....

Oh don't get me started with the financial industry.... the largest manipulating religion there is.

I'm starting to think this the Financial Meltdown, is the best thing that is going to happen to the human race. Couple that with our re-approach to sustainable living and the timely appearance of civic journalism seems to bring fresh perspective and faith of the next decade. (i personally cannot wait for the 2012 prophecy just to see what happens)

Can you see, the duplicitous catastrophic helm we live in? The tone of which is absurd yet remarkably simple. Yes is No, Right is obviously Wrong and Pepsi is actually Coke with stronger food colouring. All of which is probable and the improbable simulacrum of this reality we have built for ourselves. How many times in my life have i heard, "Life is a paradox."

No you idiot, it isn't.
That is the con.
That is the menagerie of ignorance and assumption.

The upper echelons of human consciousness has seen and documented this. It is an illusion, our simple, narrow and egotistical minds cannot pull away from. We place so much trust in our arrogance of knowledge and understanding, so we can feel that false sense of "I am Special, I am Unique" we fail terribly in the use of our infinite wisdom, to expand and evolve.

We are but a language, a contextual fabrication of the loose meaning of reality we build in our minds. A conversation. Nothing more, nothing less.

So be like the rest, let the poor get poorer, let the hungry-starve and let the malnourished children steal bread from each other. You don't really have to give a damn. Be like everyone else, and blindly seek that magical moment for your life, where you feel satisfaction and pride, when peers pat you on your back and admire you for your intelligence and wit. Where you can finally deem yourself successful...(whilst the rest of civilization crumbles)

Peace be with you as your life is your own, but leave me and the other like minded "Idealist" you so proudly label; reinvent, revolt and redeem the honour of our species, of our heritage, of our brethren.


Mother of us all
Place of our Birth
We are witness
To the Rape of the World.
~ Tracy Chapman.

Dissatisfaction

It's started with an empty stare.

How, the images -hauntingly looked back at me, the spirit i have within suddenly erupted with much dissatisfaction. I'm tired of this game, the bestows of subjugation; the anarchy of my mind, least tantamount of which my physical needs crave. An issue after issue, a test after test, a journey like stale strawberries hampered by the harshness of the environment, by my small insipid situations.

You see, you can't keep refusing rights.

My studies on the History of Social Activism have seriously dampened my faith in the Human Race as a whole. The amount of hate, violence, pain and anguish throughout history has left powerful haunting debris, with which we have still refused to look, to understand and to properly fathom - yet we want to change the world? The falsehood of our so called nature precedes what is really true and factual.

What is true is some people care, but most don't give a fuck if another human being is starving, exploited or dying. How have we come to this? The 80/20 rule does not seem to apply to this condition.

Fact

• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen.
• 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.
• The developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.
• According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”
• Water problems affect half of humanity
• 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized
• 15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS

And these are just a small example of statistics one can find on the internet. What does this tell us? Absolutely almost nothing... Why? Cause who really gives a damn? Who among us really stands for human rights? Who here recycles and keep track of what they consume like no tomorrow? Have we stop taking from another species just because it looks good, taste good and makes us a good living? How many of us, sponsor children programs and initiatives? How many of us, dedicate our lives to making this world a better place, who fight couragesly, who lives as simply as possible, who gives everything just to make a disempowered human being, powerful and alive? How many of us study because we want to serve humanity better?


I know i don't.
And thats the problem....

It breaks my heart, that my soul has always called for more. My eyes have seen the torment, my mind has read much about the human condition, in the days of my life i too have experienced pain and lost, i too have came close to death, but yet do i do what is required? Somehow the excuse of "I'm already doing the best i can & i am but a man" has left me today.

My research has brought me glimpses to what is possible for the human race, the dedicated Men and Women, who lived deliberately - who stood and died for what was right, who paved the way for just a moment of peace, of true hope, of a better today taught me, what is like to live. A quote from Henry David Thoreau resonates powerfully at that moment of elevated consciousness, when i stared into the empty space.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Just as the winds take my sails, a prelude to what is to come, i am indeed blessed yet i know there is much work to be done.

"So to care
or
Plead silence,
weak hands are calling"
~ Lyrics by Chevelle (Panic Prone)

They call,
"We need our Rights"

What are you going to do about it?