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Man, the last few weeks a kind of wierd experience was going on inside my head. I guess it started when I was feeling like I wanted to get back to activist type activity, which used to be kind of central to my life but dropped off a couple years ago. But before it had been hella natural, like I just started this politico paper and went to rallies ( Read more... )
I miss that spark in you, and have been on your ass about it since I came back from UCSC my first year, asked you where that clear-mindedness had gone while we smoked a joint in the Croghan's darkroom. You responded with an even less clear answer, and I told myself to love you the way you were.
(but I love you more now)
"The cultivation of the self and healing of the earth should occur together, one needn't precede the other." Shit, I love that idea. If anything else, we should be active in our lives and communities just to counter-balance the hatred and violence that is being acted upon our world, so that we as spiritual beings aren't brought down along with it.
And hope.
There is so much exciting shit to get involved in where you and I live- seriously. We are very lucky to have such tight parents-- smart enough to raise their kids in the Bay Area where activism is a reality, organization around important issues and communities is real and strong, and people know how to mobilize around the things that pull at their hearts, minds, and guts.
This is why the above comment annoys me. This part of "yourself" that tells you not to help others is called apathy, and that makes you a PUSSY (forgive the sexist associations, but c'mon now!) Why is it that they only agreed with the first paragraph, and disposed of the rest of the post? It might have awakened that part of them that is sleeping through their youth. Sorry if I get worked up about this, but I encounter this apathy EVERYWHERE, and ENDLESSLY. All those who argue the idea that getting involved and trying to make a difference even if it is a tiny one, is a "fucking chore" are just wrong-- It is the essence of love, it is the body of intellect, and it is one of the few types of energies that can make life seem beautiful and worth working to sustain.
Peace and Justice are just words, but they symbolize those stirrings in us that react tp W's idiotic, lying voice, when we learn that this war was contracted out by Cheney's Halliburton, when we feel the roll-backs in women's rights, learn about the injustice of the Prison Industrial Complex, see environmental policy deteriorate, and experience the drop in educational opportunities-- If we dont give a fuck, who will??
I'm not totally sure what you intended with your philosophical point that, 'Even if all things should really be fake, that means I'm totally free,' to mean-- but the way I see it is that regardless of our real impact on this world, why the fuck NOT try to do some good and effect change- even if it is vain. And that is the kind of pessimistic optimism that I subscribe to.
Way to go Jakie poo, glad to hear from you, especially since it is something I've been waiting to hear for a long time. Just know that whatever projects you want to work on, wherever you want to take this fight that is simmering in your head, you've got a down-ass-bitch in Santa Cruz who is interested in being there with you.
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