Sunday, July 5, 2009
Celebrate
Hollywood Responsibilities
“People everywhere enjoy believing things they know are not true.It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves And taking responsibility for what they know.”
Brooks Alkinson
Lust of the Libertine
- the act of having and controlling property
- anything owned or possessed
- being controlled by passion or the supernatural
- monomania: a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- a territory that is controlled by a ruling state
Hm, so does it really make sense that we humans possess inanimate objects? Controlling, owning, restricting, ruling these things with no power of thought, action, or life for that matter. It seems to completely contradict itself actually. The power lies entirely in our hands. We restrict ourselves, by using fear and authority. And believe me those who have the power of authority, know exactly what they can do with that power. Manipulate hundreds, thousands, millions of people? It doesn't seem too unlikely knowing that we are bombarded with advertisements and numerous forms of media every single day of our life. The power has even left the hands of those in charge. Life has been given to these inanimate objects, in such ways that we fiend for them, we rely on them, and for most of us, we need them to survive. We can only make a difference if we help the majority of people to enlighten and free themselves of their cages. It's almost as if these cages aren't even locked at all, we choose to stay in them because of fear. Lets help eachother out of these cages.
“Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T.S Elliott
Two Simplistic Choices
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.Nelson Mandela