If you think about it,
all the anti-utopian stories of children leaving the bankrupt world of adults
are based on a very optimistic premise
that our children will be better than us in spite of what we do…
I am afraid not.
Tag: culture
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A Play
“All the world’s a stage…”
(W. Shakespeare)
Sit still and look.
The play develops.
It grows from the root of common knowledge.
The vessels form and fill with blood and bile.
Sighs, screams and whispers fill the air.
You run headlong into the wall of pain
and, winded by the force of impact,
stop,
doubled up,
just breathing.
You cry and laugh in turn and in-between.
Pain, imperceptibly, becomes a habit
but so does the joy –
both dulled by usage.
The actor’s voice,
still raised in imprecation,
commands attention
and, of course, you listen…
But now mostly listen to the silence
that is to come.
The play will soon be over. -
Still Motion
Our shadows –
passing over the shadows of dreams and aspirations of our ancestors,
fleetingly reflecting them and disappearing into the void,
the void where ancestral dreams will join us eventually…
which is absolutely unimportant. -
Black and White Thinking
Black and white thinking –
a useful evolutionary short-cut for quickly reacting in an emergency,
an extremely dangerous tool that simplifies experience into lies. -
Evolution of Religions
If you are afraid to die, they provide you with an immortal soul,
if you are afraid to live, they provide you with an authority to tell you what to do…
religions evolved to cater to every available kind of fear. -
De-evolution
People who tell you to go back to your roots are merely lonely –
they have already devolved to the pre-sapient stage and want you to join them back there. -
Point of View
What is it that makes us human?
Is it soul,
technology,
the use of handkerchiefs
or two types of forks?
I think it is language, for it gives us empathy;
the ability to see through other’s eyes
and hence the ability to see something truly new.
Look through the eyes of an artist – it will give you the joy of creating a world.
Look through the eyes of history – it will give you the desire for changing the world.
Look through the eyes of a child – it will give you a reason for changing yourself.
