This is a Preachy One but....its needed.....
So, I'm watching this program on MTV about diaries found after the Holocaust and, most of these diaries are from kinds or young adults and the experience. The older I get, the more I lose hope in people......Working at NYsc and dealing with people like that and dealing with the world of the arts and just dealing with people on an everyday basis.......its amazing how about 60 years ago there was mass murder going on and people thought that this was okay. People thought this was the right thing to do......against a single group of people because of their RELIGION! Being Jewish isn't like....being a nationality....it isn't being from a specific country....its a FUCKING RELIGION. And these people were killed......I've been learning more and more about this since I was younger, but just like the Black Experience, you don't always get the full story. You get "Oh, it was horrible how they were treated and this happened and that happened...." But, whats the full story? How can people have sat around and WATCH people starve to death? Suffer from disease, barred in a FUCKING "ghetto", seperated from the rest of the town/country? And killed......how could people just kill for the sake of killing? For the sake of "being the number 1 race". They were the easy target because Germans at the time were looked at like trash because of WW1, so they had to pick on ANYTHING. What the HELL were these people thinking? Did they think this reign would pick up all over the world and everone would agree and join them in this crusade? You just got in trouble and you put your trust in a man who's heading your country into even more trouble? The stupidity of the human race is horrible.....People are so fucking greedy and no one cares about anyone else. Its always about themself...its always about what you can get and screw the next person....because it doesn't take community and teamwork to make this world a better place. I mean, I'm not trying to do a Michael Jackson "Heal the World" type deal, but people are losing respect for others more and more.....we see it in media, we see it in everyday life and its sick......it makes me sick. The superficial place that the United States has become is atrocious. The world of the performing arts.....horrible. We work our asses off everyday for the single momemnt to be hired and to express ourself. To indulge ourselves into work that will give US meaning...that will keep us alive.....but it lies in the hand of a director....of one person who may not like your BODY! Are you fucking kidding me? We have all this SHIT going on in the world and we, as artist, have to deal with small details of scrutinization......our voice, our body, our eyes, our skin color, our feet, our extension, our hair.........or damn religion.......
It makes you want to cry................
But, I'm stronger than that........shows that can make a difference in our lives are always put on the back burner for something like...."Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", where people don't have to think and people can go to the theatre and go about their daily lives living in a BOX where they can block out what really goes on in the world until they turn their television on at 10pm to watch the news, if they even decide to do that. Sometimes its too much to take.....understandable, but how can a person make a difference if they don't knwo whats going on? How can someone MY age make a difference without having to enlist in the army and KILL themself for a cause that seems to happen again 10-15 years later?
People should ask themselves why they are really here......goals change.....plans change....but for all the emphasis we put on money and fame.....what can we really do for the world and not for "ourselves"?
It makes you want to cry................
But, I'm stronger than that........shows that can make a difference in our lives are always put on the back burner for something like...."Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", where people don't have to think and people can go to the theatre and go about their daily lives living in a BOX where they can block out what really goes on in the world until they turn their television on at 10pm to watch the news, if they even decide to do that. Sometimes its too much to take.....understandable, but how can a person make a difference if they don't knwo whats going on? How can someone MY age make a difference without having to enlist in the army and KILL themself for a cause that seems to happen again 10-15 years later?
People should ask themselves why they are really here......goals change.....plans change....but for all the emphasis we put on money and fame.....what can we really do for the world and not for "ourselves"?