The news. . .WTF??? So many people dying in Iraq. All around the world. Why does it make me sad? Why do I feel connected to photographs of rumble, human suffering, all that stuff. It must be the connection to humanity. That acceptance of wanting to feel love and kindness for my fellow humans.
It’s going to be like this for a long time I feel like. This world doesn’t seem like it’s looking any better and maybe in 50 years bombs will be going off here and blowing up our landscape. . .This blog will be like a joke. It’ll be a memory. . We’ll talk about how we use to have the internet and cell phones and food. . .
Could it be possible? Yes. That’s what has happened to all those people in Iraq. Their lives use to be just like ours if not better. Different but, the same. Now it’s an apocalypse. Everyday you can read a new article about the war. Woman widows becoming prostitutes to buy food for their children. Families selling their virgin daughters to the wealthy. Bombs blowing up everyday, everywhere! This is real, people!!!!
I woke up this morning and watched some rap videos. Obviously as the afore posting indicates I love rap music. But, these videos are what you would stereotypically expect from the commercial rap community. Dude with his shirt off, tats, baseball hat, big bootie girl, money, cars, blah, blah, blah. . .It’s so U.S.A. it’s unbelievable. The object based nature of our lives. My life is very far from this world. I think about 99.9997% of people’s lives are. Even the people in these fantasy songs and videos. They know it’s a joke. We know it’s a joke. But, still it’s entertaining, it’s fun to think about being in that world. And most people want to be or think that world could actually be real and try to live it everyday. I’m in LA so I see this constantly. . .
I feel that’s what people are doing in the U.S.A. our lives are like those crazy blingtastic videos for real! Compared to the rest of the world we have our shirts off, giant cars, food, women, wealth, awesome teeth. It’s probably even crazier once you start breaking down how much we have and get and how easy it is to just be a citizen here. Michael Moore can criticize the government and so can I but, it’s what the American people believe in that’s what you need to think about.A balance is here between the people, government, companies, and everything else that is finely tuned and unbelievable that it’s all working. The markets are starting to go down so maybe it’s over. Think about Ralphs, the freeways, the internet. Everyone can get that stuff and have it as a part of their lives. Everyone reading this has these elements in their lives and uses them. I try not too but, millions of others do everyday in Los Angeles. But, it’s not that easy. I feel like crap about it all. I make things. I’m materialistic. I exist in this world that I don’t believe in and it’s all insane.
Life is beautiful and amazingly unpredictable. I love that. I feel like some truths do exist out there. Love, nature, and yourself. It’s nice to have all those things. . .So go back to reading NYtimes.com. Forget my preaching. Go back to trying to understand how we exist in this whole thing called Earth. Have fun and feel happiness and sadness. It’s all we have.
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I agree, our feelings, even though fleeting, and often the cause of great suffering are all we have.
One more thing, I've hermetically sealed myself off from the news in the car, and I've made it a point to not know what bullshit is happening in the world. But I slipped and read two stories. One yesterday about the 6 year old that was hacked to death in Thousand Oaks, and today of a woman, prominent in her neighborhood, who was shot in the head from a blue lincoln, during her attempt to stop a tagger deface a wall in her neighborhood.
Us bipeds - we've been spreading trouble and misery since the day we discovered watering holes.
lindsey lohan only has to serve 4 days in jail.
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