wildflower
I missed posting this for v-day by over a week which saddens me, but considering i haven't posted any scathing social commentary to ANY of my blogs in some time, i was beginning to wonder if i was losing my edge. or worse yet, my writing skills.
though yahoo news may not be the great source of all truths, it is a good primer in human de-evolution. today's headlines included the news that half of Indian women have never heard of AIDS and that rats invaded (read: ESCAPED FROM THE KITCHEN) of a New York City KFC-Taco Bell. I work at an unnamed alternative school in an unnamed rural Florida county...and let me tell you. the reason things are continuing to de-evolve in our world are very simple: too many people and too many naysayers.
we don't tell people: "No you can't drive that gas-guzzler carelessly while you're under the influence" or "No you can't treat your partners/children/parents/employees like shit" or "No you can't look down on people for being gay or from a foreign land." No, we tell people today such gems as: "No you can't do things for joy - you have to do them for money or for some false sense of love and security." "No you can't get up and move around...you have to sit and be quiet and good."
I hear so many "concerned citizens" wondering why today's youth can't be "good" or "successful." Who's to say that tomorrow's definition of success will be the same as today's? What IS success? How do we measure it?
Is a successful individual one who is happy, whether homeless or a millionaire? Is success finishing high school, taking up a trade, attending college, or is success only "success" if you get a graduate or professional degree? Is success finding love, finding God? When the definitions of love and God are so vague and ever-changing, HOW do we find those things?
When I ask these questions, I feel like i'm in a forest or in the sea. some people worry when they picture that analogy - so many people are afraid of that feeling, afraid that it's too close to not having a direction.
Fear keeps people from looking further than where they're at. Our generation accuses those who don't dive into parties, the scene, alcohol, drugs prudes. But I ask - how many people in our generation can say they dove into real passion - something wholly organic? Be it spirituality, love, an academic pursuit, knowledge, nature? How can we truly reinvent the world, address problems, help the next generation if we can't strive for wholeness without artificial aids?
sorry if this blog jumps around a bit. the result of not really thinking and writing for a while is often a muddled but heartfelt outpouring.
though yahoo news may not be the great source of all truths, it is a good primer in human de-evolution. today's headlines included the news that half of Indian women have never heard of AIDS and that rats invaded (read: ESCAPED FROM THE KITCHEN) of a New York City KFC-Taco Bell. I work at an unnamed alternative school in an unnamed rural Florida county...and let me tell you. the reason things are continuing to de-evolve in our world are very simple: too many people and too many naysayers.
we don't tell people: "No you can't drive that gas-guzzler carelessly while you're under the influence" or "No you can't treat your partners/children/parents/employees like shit" or "No you can't look down on people for being gay or from a foreign land." No, we tell people today such gems as: "No you can't do things for joy - you have to do them for money or for some false sense of love and security." "No you can't get up and move around...you have to sit and be quiet and good."
I hear so many "concerned citizens" wondering why today's youth can't be "good" or "successful." Who's to say that tomorrow's definition of success will be the same as today's? What IS success? How do we measure it?
Is a successful individual one who is happy, whether homeless or a millionaire? Is success finishing high school, taking up a trade, attending college, or is success only "success" if you get a graduate or professional degree? Is success finding love, finding God? When the definitions of love and God are so vague and ever-changing, HOW do we find those things?
When I ask these questions, I feel like i'm in a forest or in the sea. some people worry when they picture that analogy - so many people are afraid of that feeling, afraid that it's too close to not having a direction.
Fear keeps people from looking further than where they're at. Our generation accuses those who don't dive into parties, the scene, alcohol, drugs prudes. But I ask - how many people in our generation can say they dove into real passion - something wholly organic? Be it spirituality, love, an academic pursuit, knowledge, nature? How can we truly reinvent the world, address problems, help the next generation if we can't strive for wholeness without artificial aids?
sorry if this blog jumps around a bit. the result of not really thinking and writing for a while is often a muddled but heartfelt outpouring.