This time around I have mostly listened and watched and silently walked through the streets and contemplated. I have shaken my head at the predictability and guaranteed repeatability of it all. I have wondered what might make this time different and have failed to find a believable answer. Ive looked back across history and found fleeting moments of sanctuary. I have looked forward across the history to come and glimpsed the sun but mostly found fog. I have felt lost at yet another loss. And if I am this weary, what of the millions with far less luck than me? It is the season for gifts and gratitude and so I am grateful for this Public Display of Apathy and Indifference by The State because it triggers the auto-immune response of The People who react with equal parts rage and love. The Systemic Indifference is a feature, not a bug. But heres the thing about systems: they are designed and can be undone, rebooted, re-wired. So maybe thats the glimpse of sun in the fog. The knowledge that while all of this has happened before and will happen again--is certainly happening again right now somewhere to someone whose name we may never know--it can be slightly different each time. More of us may see the outlines of Systemic Indifference and endeavor to rewrite them. Until then let us be filled with Rage and Love. For they are both equal and essential antidotes to that which ails us and fails us.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:34:45 +0000
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