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2020 hell
I hate this century with turmoil boiling within nowhere to go
I scream inside myself holding tight to my anger
I rage at rioters out of control
building, building with no release
it's insane what we're doing but I understand it
repression, obsession, oppression
COVID 19 picking off the weak
thousands dying I look skyward
no blue skies why?
California is burning
ash rains down on me
what else is coming?
a bullet to the brain?
displaced anger, damn it I miss the seventies
nowhere to run, no turning back
so here we go turn the ride all the way up
spinning round so fast we can barely make sense of things
with voting days right around the corner
I can't say that I call it this year
fear is running deep
who will lead us out of this shit hole
or is a new system we've never seen before about to be implemented?
tighter and tighter my lungs constrict as I take another gasp of air
burn, baby burn
I cry as forests are decimated
while people stand divided
and children are dying
America the great have you yet fallen?
people acting like nothing is happening
all is normal in the land of nod
thy kingdom come
thy will be done
God I'm about to break down
Published 15th Sep 2020
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15th Sep 2020 1:14am
20Fucking20 as I’ve seen this year referred to ...
You said it all B
Keep writing
Keep documenting
Look both ways before crossing ....
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You said it all B
Keep writing
Keep documenting
Look both ways before crossing ....
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15th Sep 2020 1:34am
15th Sep 2020 3:02am
Anonymous
- Edited 16th Sep 2020 2:45pm
15th Sep 2020 3:14am
I wish I had a concise trream of thought to ease your heart over the currency of events, and to give you a little definitive peace about the upcoming, but i do not. Mine are just a mishmash of thoughts and juxtaposed reflections, but I will try my best.
Politics in America is a shit show. But they have always been a shit show. In the post war period (mid-1940s through to roughly Ronald Reagan second term?) Politics might have seemed to possess characteristics akin to steady, reliable, stability, pleasant enough cordiality, and (gasp) structured order, the tumults midway through over Vietnam, the social changes of what were actually just the *very* beginnings of desegregation, and the (Oh!) assassinations notwithstanding, but don't forget how truly conglomerated and monolithic what we would refer to as of "the media" was at that time, and how great at presenting and sustaining all of the already established and firmly overriding cultural mythology of the time (everything is peachy, keen, white, and male) mythology of the time. perhaps politics in America has just reverted back to its old form although really probably a more civilized version of it. We were a shitshow before we dominated (doing good enough work in the context) World War II and an American politicians had to adopt the decorum of elder statesman (lol) on the world stage. That was all just show. Western European politics may or may not be reverting to a less shiny form, but we don't have tanks massing between France and Germany either. Eastern Europe is always been completely nuts. And they're less nuts now than perhaps any other time. *Perhaps.* All such things are so relative, bit 80 years ago (World War II doesn't seem like it was that long ago in our minds) there are death squads and gulags and concentration camps or mass gassings in what everyone then could still honestly claim claim to be the civilized top pier of the world. Nowadays also the colonial system is disappeared. politics in the African continent are way more stable than they have been at any other period in the post-war for post-colonial system., Or so I'd gather?
the Mediterranean and the levant? Well, there's an evil spirit living in Jerusalem (Lee "Scratch" Perry paraphrase), so what are you gonna say? But that area has been truly fucked since the end of the colonial system and several decades of being used as pawn chess pieces in the game of empire between us and the evil Russians. Shit beginning to shake itself out there though and stabilize to some extent. Women's rights there are very nascent, but that's been the dominant motif of that region for vast amount of time, and now there's a foothold more than a few growing slowly but not perhaps the story is one might fear. After all they have America (and the rest of the "West") as cultural role models who went before. Long live rock and roll.
We have the internet also. 40 years ago I wouldn't have really given a fuck about all that much what was going on in some sandey dirty country I barely even heard of. or even if I did, I've never been there have only seen black and white photos of strange looking people in the newspaper etc etc etc I never met anyone from there etc etc my connection level with the people there would not have been as high. My potential empathy level is increased by a large factor today then it would have been 40 years ago. now we are so vastly more connected, just as cultural, an individuals now are truly able to recognize their similarities to everyone else across the globe, because we're all so much in communication with each other. It's a great mishmash. and yes, there's plenty of room for ignorance to fester and grow but there always is and there always has been no matter the medium no matter the context no matter what where.
final thought politics may be way more fucked up than I was in the '70s, but societally, and as individuals who are part of a collective (and only, really, now, global) culture we're far ahead of where we were. The current incarnation of mass media has not been a pox, so much as a boon.
Now, having said all that. Climate change truly is going to be the mother of all bitches. At the same time it may bring us all together even that much more so globally as a culture, both as nations and as individuals working together simply to keep things together. Trust me. None of the players have any inclination to see global society and it's intermeshment collapse or disintegrate, and as it becomes clear that climate change may cause this, they'll be greater incentive to working together. Everything is a shit show but everything is fluctuations. Everything has always been a shit show and everything has always been fluctuations. We just got to get through the next 200 years of climate change together, and then I (my prediction) as a species self-consciously caretaking and stewarding the world upon which it lives, we will have become be more or less home-free as a collective, living in better unity with itself and living in far greater harmonic balance (resonance) with our mother.
You ever heard of a book called The Better Angels Of Our Nature? All about where we're at versus where we've been, with stats and facts and stuff (if I recall correctly from my cursory perusal of it) kind of along the same vein of what I've just said but with an even longer term historical perspective stretching back further.
Sorry for hogging up your comments with this obscenely long reply.
Wishing you, as always, blessings and peace.
Politics in America is a shit show. But they have always been a shit show. In the post war period (mid-1940s through to roughly Ronald Reagan second term?) Politics might have seemed to possess characteristics akin to steady, reliable, stability, pleasant enough cordiality, and (gasp) structured order, the tumults midway through over Vietnam, the social changes of what were actually just the *very* beginnings of desegregation, and the (Oh!) assassinations notwithstanding, but don't forget how truly conglomerated and monolithic what we would refer to as of "the media" was at that time, and how great at presenting and sustaining all of the already established and firmly overriding cultural mythology of the time (everything is peachy, keen, white, and male) mythology of the time. perhaps politics in America has just reverted back to its old form although really probably a more civilized version of it. We were a shitshow before we dominated (doing good enough work in the context) World War II and an American politicians had to adopt the decorum of elder statesman (lol) on the world stage. That was all just show. Western European politics may or may not be reverting to a less shiny form, but we don't have tanks massing between France and Germany either. Eastern Europe is always been completely nuts. And they're less nuts now than perhaps any other time. *Perhaps.* All such things are so relative, bit 80 years ago (World War II doesn't seem like it was that long ago in our minds) there are death squads and gulags and concentration camps or mass gassings in what everyone then could still honestly claim claim to be the civilized top pier of the world. Nowadays also the colonial system is disappeared. politics in the African continent are way more stable than they have been at any other period in the post-war for post-colonial system., Or so I'd gather?
the Mediterranean and the levant? Well, there's an evil spirit living in Jerusalem (Lee "Scratch" Perry paraphrase), so what are you gonna say? But that area has been truly fucked since the end of the colonial system and several decades of being used as pawn chess pieces in the game of empire between us and the evil Russians. Shit beginning to shake itself out there though and stabilize to some extent. Women's rights there are very nascent, but that's been the dominant motif of that region for vast amount of time, and now there's a foothold more than a few growing slowly but not perhaps the story is one might fear. After all they have America (and the rest of the "West") as cultural role models who went before. Long live rock and roll.
We have the internet also. 40 years ago I wouldn't have really given a fuck about all that much what was going on in some sandey dirty country I barely even heard of. or even if I did, I've never been there have only seen black and white photos of strange looking people in the newspaper etc etc etc I never met anyone from there etc etc my connection level with the people there would not have been as high. My potential empathy level is increased by a large factor today then it would have been 40 years ago. now we are so vastly more connected, just as cultural, an individuals now are truly able to recognize their similarities to everyone else across the globe, because we're all so much in communication with each other. It's a great mishmash. and yes, there's plenty of room for ignorance to fester and grow but there always is and there always has been no matter the medium no matter the context no matter what where.
final thought politics may be way more fucked up than I was in the '70s, but societally, and as individuals who are part of a collective (and only, really, now, global) culture we're far ahead of where we were. The current incarnation of mass media has not been a pox, so much as a boon.
Now, having said all that. Climate change truly is going to be the mother of all bitches. At the same time it may bring us all together even that much more so globally as a culture, both as nations and as individuals working together simply to keep things together. Trust me. None of the players have any inclination to see global society and it's intermeshment collapse or disintegrate, and as it becomes clear that climate change may cause this, they'll be greater incentive to working together. Everything is a shit show but everything is fluctuations. Everything has always been a shit show and everything has always been fluctuations. We just got to get through the next 200 years of climate change together, and then I (my prediction) as a species self-consciously caretaking and stewarding the world upon which it lives, we will have become be more or less home-free as a collective, living in better unity with itself and living in far greater harmonic balance (resonance) with our mother.
You ever heard of a book called The Better Angels Of Our Nature? All about where we're at versus where we've been, with stats and facts and stuff (if I recall correctly from my cursory perusal of it) kind of along the same vein of what I've just said but with an even longer term historical perspective stretching back further.
Sorry for hogging up your comments with this obscenely long reply.
Wishing you, as always, blessings and peace.
Anonymous
- Edited 9th Apr 2022 5:45am
15th Sep 2020 3:17am
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15th Sep 2020 4:39am
I feel you, Brenda... I really do. It can all be a little overwhelming at times. Feels like the weight of the world is pressing down. Hang in there ❤️
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15th Sep 2020 11:43pm
And sadly it looks like Trump has an excellent chance of being re-elected. Amazing. Nazis and Heil Hitler if he's in again.................nothing will stop him then. Pray for the USA, pray for the world....................
16th Sep 2020 1:28am
Add to this the three tropical storms/hurricanes in the east coast), we're all affected these environmental dangers and yet they refuse to believe the science. It's not an easy year but we'll get through this.
Great write crimsin.
Great write crimsin.
19th Sep 2020 2:00pm
Felt this... If ya happen to get a moment, look into the Seven Fires Prophecy. It's a Native American bit of insight into these times. I've been doing a lot of digging into the spiritual side of things.
