acceptance
Hey people,
Forgot about this thing with spring break and death in the family and what-not all has been hectic.
Over this semester many events in my life have lead me in a direction I've been headed for a while but haven't quite thought it to a T yet. So, I would like to slap bits of it on a page and see how it sounds.
My recent revelation came while sitting at a gig I played last Saturday for a silent auction fundraiser for a rich private catholic shelter your upper-upper class from the bad people (buddhists, black people, and protestants) school. I was sick just listening to them speak and watching them socialize. Just the way they dressed was enough to upset me a bit. After living in the city for a year my perception on the world has slid a bit. You never realize what a city is like till your in it. Until you've heard a guy threaten to shoot a guy over a bus pass and chase him off the bus at midnight. You see homeless people begging everyone for bus change and I once got threatened when I didnt give a guy change.
It makes the stuff you see on tv so much more real. When I go to that silent auction I think about the homeless guy I chatted with on the bus. If he were in that ritzy maple grove hotel, he would not know what to think. Looking at where these people are spending there money while millions of americans (mostly minorities) in the inner city are having trouble getting an education well enough to get them a job other than selling crack.
Then, my "these people are stupid brainwashing-their-children idiots" voice kicked in. The one that made me hate christians for a couple of years among many other people that I thought were dumb. Then I thought of the many things going on with people in my life lately and it struck me.
These are good hearted, nice, intelligent people. Yes, they are not bothering to step back from society and question their existance but most people never do. What sense does it make for me to attack their idiocy just because they dont question with the vigor that I do. I needn't be mad at them, I need be mad at the social construct that builds these unquestioning people to be as they are. These aren't bad people. They are good people stuck in a bad society. I may still fight for change and enlightenment but I neednt hate 75% of the population while I'm at it.
Acceptance. It makes you like more people.
peace.
Forgot about this thing with spring break and death in the family and what-not all has been hectic.
Over this semester many events in my life have lead me in a direction I've been headed for a while but haven't quite thought it to a T yet. So, I would like to slap bits of it on a page and see how it sounds.
My recent revelation came while sitting at a gig I played last Saturday for a silent auction fundraiser for a rich private catholic shelter your upper-upper class from the bad people (buddhists, black people, and protestants) school. I was sick just listening to them speak and watching them socialize. Just the way they dressed was enough to upset me a bit. After living in the city for a year my perception on the world has slid a bit. You never realize what a city is like till your in it. Until you've heard a guy threaten to shoot a guy over a bus pass and chase him off the bus at midnight. You see homeless people begging everyone for bus change and I once got threatened when I didnt give a guy change.
It makes the stuff you see on tv so much more real. When I go to that silent auction I think about the homeless guy I chatted with on the bus. If he were in that ritzy maple grove hotel, he would not know what to think. Looking at where these people are spending there money while millions of americans (mostly minorities) in the inner city are having trouble getting an education well enough to get them a job other than selling crack.
Then, my "these people are stupid brainwashing-their-children idiots" voice kicked in. The one that made me hate christians for a couple of years among many other people that I thought were dumb. Then I thought of the many things going on with people in my life lately and it struck me.
These are good hearted, nice, intelligent people. Yes, they are not bothering to step back from society and question their existance but most people never do. What sense does it make for me to attack their idiocy just because they dont question with the vigor that I do. I needn't be mad at them, I need be mad at the social construct that builds these unquestioning people to be as they are. These aren't bad people. They are good people stuck in a bad society. I may still fight for change and enlightenment but I neednt hate 75% of the population while I'm at it.
Acceptance. It makes you like more people.
peace.