Where are we?
So here I am. Stuck living out my dreams, one nightmare at a time. From the self-inflicted Holocaust of my own culture with the help of capitalism, to societal perpetration of sanity through loose interpretation. I am a head case. But I'm the norm; at least for those not living in denial.
I can neither confirm nor deny the empirical data that supports my theory. That is only because the English language is encrypted. Behind command of the English language is power and intellectual ability to communicate. But no one wants to be smart anymore, so we suffer the indignity of remembering logins to access our lives now locked safely behind a computer screen and a password.
And does any of that make sense? We use our brains less and less. It’s getting to the point that we don't know how to keep secrets anymore. And why should we learn? The government has its ear and hand into everything. Our very private lives become exposed like rosebuds on the first day of bloom, whether we choose it or not. No more option for anonymity.
No one wants to dream nightmares. The pain can become downright unbearable. This insatiable need to hurt like a black person with the weight of the race on his shoulder has become more of a fanciful tale of 'who’s lived it,' rather than reality. And I'm sick of it. I'm sick of dreaming the dreams of a poor man, made poor by his inability to shake the parody of his own blackness.
We tell stories of rags to riches, forgetting to include the detail about the middle. Yet, all the while creating make believe for our children who understand only that it takes talent to be rich, but don't fully understand the work it takes to get there; I.e., "the middle." They definitely understand rags though.
My hope is that one day, we all can dream and they will be real dreams. Dreams of enlightenment that give us the details behind how to accomplish those dreams. Roadmaps. And then we all follow these roadmaps and they lead us right into Heaven's Way. For there lies a street on which we all could live if we could just find the directions there.
And then the only nightmare we'd have is the fear of regression. That's a motivator. Wouldn't that be nice?
I can neither confirm nor deny the empirical data that supports my theory. That is only because the English language is encrypted. Behind command of the English language is power and intellectual ability to communicate. But no one wants to be smart anymore, so we suffer the indignity of remembering logins to access our lives now locked safely behind a computer screen and a password.
And does any of that make sense? We use our brains less and less. It’s getting to the point that we don't know how to keep secrets anymore. And why should we learn? The government has its ear and hand into everything. Our very private lives become exposed like rosebuds on the first day of bloom, whether we choose it or not. No more option for anonymity.
No one wants to dream nightmares. The pain can become downright unbearable. This insatiable need to hurt like a black person with the weight of the race on his shoulder has become more of a fanciful tale of 'who’s lived it,' rather than reality. And I'm sick of it. I'm sick of dreaming the dreams of a poor man, made poor by his inability to shake the parody of his own blackness.
We tell stories of rags to riches, forgetting to include the detail about the middle. Yet, all the while creating make believe for our children who understand only that it takes talent to be rich, but don't fully understand the work it takes to get there; I.e., "the middle." They definitely understand rags though.
My hope is that one day, we all can dream and they will be real dreams. Dreams of enlightenment that give us the details behind how to accomplish those dreams. Roadmaps. And then we all follow these roadmaps and they lead us right into Heaven's Way. For there lies a street on which we all could live if we could just find the directions there.
And then the only nightmare we'd have is the fear of regression. That's a motivator. Wouldn't that be nice?
posted by JayGee at 6/26/2006 10:13:00 PM
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