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| In memory of the fallen, and those they left behind... |
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| In memory of the fallen, and those they left behind... |
| There is a substantial difference between being free, and being in control of the tyranny wherein one is incarcerated. Isn't it a funny thing, how the children of the gay all speak Spanish. Never loan a lesbian your caulking gun... once she figures out what it's good for she'll never give it back. It takes a very large herd to get anything done when public education has converted the entire society into politically correct one trick ponies. No wonder bdsm is on the upswing. There is no fortress harder to assault than a nuerosis defended by a knowledge of psychology. If I meet someone and among the first things they reveal about themselves is their religion? If they make it a point to lead off by saying they're a Christian? My first thought is always to wonder what secret sin has such command of their life they feel compelled to give everyone they meet fair warning in advance. As a consequence of the law of averages it is a given that the higher your level of art the smaller a viable audience you have, the bell curve of human intelligence and sensitivity sets the numbers. And what's worse is the fewer who can understand your art the more viciously and vociferously the critics representing the average will attack at any and every opportunity. The handle on your spoon should always be at least as long as the chord tangent from the bottom of your bowl to the rim, rough numbers some three quarters of the diameter... otherwise? You get to fish your spoon out of the bottom of your soup, which just doesn't do the soup or your fingers any good at all. One of the cruelest things you can do is do someone's homework for them. You've just robbed them of something they're going to need from now on. You see someone doing a child's homework for them? Report them to child welfare, because that is child abuse, pure and simple. One of the thoughts the world really, really needs to wrap its' head around is some way to put an end to the lie that sexy ends when children begin... I'd say a good fourth of our society's problems have that lie deeply imbedded in their foundation. One of the most powerful weapons anyone can own is an understanding of what motivates his enemy, and what price his enemy pays from the other elements of his life to maintain that motivation. It is possible to overdrive them to the point they self destruct. So many think they want to fit in, be part of the whole... many never do feel that, and for them that's a sadness. But what is sadder is those who do fit in, and then years later realize what they fit themselves to is a set of chains that make true freedom of self impossible. The lonely can find friends, companionship among the other outcasts. The chained must find a hacksaw. Be careful of the word freedom. It is a noble word, a noble thought, and yet still a dangerous thought in ways very few ever realize. The word freedom should never be allowed to stand alone, it should always be keeping company with the question "freedom from what?" To many will say freedom and mean freedom from responsibility and become parasitic thinking they are free when in reality they are enslaved to whatever or whoever serves as their host. Others will say freedom, and mean freedom from the emotional burden of caring, with the end result being they become callous and a lean bit to the cruel side, they are free of the very thing needed to avoid hurting others without intent. It happens all the time, look around at the people in your world, it won't take you half an hour to see examples. Freedom is a noble thought, but it needs understanding to keep it from setting a life free to starve in abject loneliness, if not some worse fate. You save water by showering with a friend, but you save energy by turning down the cold, not turning up the hot. The order things happen can make quite a difference. For example, if you think first of the things you can't do instead of thinking first of the things you can do? You'll end up poisoning your own life with despair. Since the appetites of humanity are reasonably consistent the best way to estimate the degree of hypocrisy in a strange town is to observe the ratio of churches to pubs to meat-market singles bars. If it ain't going on in one place it is most likely going on in the other. At the end of the day poetry is still just the most elegant of speach impediments... it's the thought that counts, as always. Social momentum: what happens when the liberals can't believe there can be a solution for a problem the conservatives can't believe exists. I'm afraid that in the end ART is simply the illusion of purpose painted over that which is simply... pretty. The first casualty of war is always innocence. It's easier to convince a liberal you have to be able to pay for it than it is to convince a conservative you have to be willing to imagine it. Understand, "ANGEL" is a career choice, not another species. It is said we should learn to laugh at ourselves, lest we come to take ourselves to seriously. Possibly true, but if so then one should never laugh more than once or twice at the same event... more than that becomes self abuse. A small, but potent, tidbit of a thought: those who think they know? They are the ones who never learn anything more. How dumb is it, to ask for an apology from someone you won't believe anyway? It is a fact that one cannot forgive what one cannot admit to themselves, and it is widely held as true that what one can't forgive one must take with them when they leave mortality for the eternal. |
Disgust 
wow. i loved your gallery, your poems and words are phenomenal...you have a thing with words~ 
finally. 
