Let's Dance
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smokingbootScenes in Brixton last night:
https://www.facebook.com/jamie.burdekin/videos/10153748707266043/?theater
This is what life is meant to be about,what people are meant to be about; laughing, singing, dancing. Who on earth made the ghastly decision that work was the point? Never the people working I suspect.
Day after, out come the wormhole spotters. I don't know enough about Bowie and assault charges to give much comment; as he wasn't convicted (to my imperfect knowledge) it doesn't seem an issue. And perhaps there needs to be some care taken with judging every historical sexual interaction with near-16s. Many do indeed appear to be straightforward sexual assaults, but the mores and attitudes of the time count for something,or we would be despising Romeo and Juliet for the abuse of a 14 year old, and Austen's 'Emma' would be off the curriculum for Knightley's potential grooming of Emma when she was 13. I think that if there is hypersensivity on this subject, it's in an understandable response to historic acceptance of abuse. Context is no excuse, but it may help explain, for all the good that does. In 100 years time, many may consider our appetite for meat a cruel and barbaric practice; they may find it hard to see us as anything more than monsters when they realise that we get what happens in abbattoirs and we accept it. Delineations of evil change.
Speaking of evil, looks as though Mein Kampf is selling well. I would be tempted to buy it if it gave any real indication of how his mind turned so ill, but the excerpts I read here and there show little except a demonstrable lack of writing talent, and a determined pointless hatred. One wonders if his paintings were as dull.
We could spend our lives ruminating on all the possible permutations and manifestations of evil; a view so bleak no-one could live with the reality of it - and you can't affect anything if you are too crushed by truth to live. Sometimes you have to accept today, it's music and its blindness, its stories and the tales forgotten. We have to live, all of us. So come on. Let's dance.
https://www.facebook.com/jamie.burdekin/videos/10153748707266043/?theater
This is what life is meant to be about,what people are meant to be about; laughing, singing, dancing. Who on earth made the ghastly decision that work was the point? Never the people working I suspect.
Day after, out come the wormhole spotters. I don't know enough about Bowie and assault charges to give much comment; as he wasn't convicted (to my imperfect knowledge) it doesn't seem an issue. And perhaps there needs to be some care taken with judging every historical sexual interaction with near-16s. Many do indeed appear to be straightforward sexual assaults, but the mores and attitudes of the time count for something,or we would be despising Romeo and Juliet for the abuse of a 14 year old, and Austen's 'Emma' would be off the curriculum for Knightley's potential grooming of Emma when she was 13. I think that if there is hypersensivity on this subject, it's in an understandable response to historic acceptance of abuse. Context is no excuse, but it may help explain, for all the good that does. In 100 years time, many may consider our appetite for meat a cruel and barbaric practice; they may find it hard to see us as anything more than monsters when they realise that we get what happens in abbattoirs and we accept it. Delineations of evil change.
Speaking of evil, looks as though Mein Kampf is selling well. I would be tempted to buy it if it gave any real indication of how his mind turned so ill, but the excerpts I read here and there show little except a demonstrable lack of writing talent, and a determined pointless hatred. One wonders if his paintings were as dull.
We could spend our lives ruminating on all the possible permutations and manifestations of evil; a view so bleak no-one could live with the reality of it - and you can't affect anything if you are too crushed by truth to live. Sometimes you have to accept today, it's music and its blindness, its stories and the tales forgotten. We have to live, all of us. So come on. Let's dance.
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Date: 2016-01-13 07:58 pm (UTC)I see it in the kids too - the worst cruelties and miseries seem to happen when they have been given nothing fit to do, or have been made to feel that they are not fit to do it.
Maybe I mean something different by work?
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Date: 2016-01-14 08:23 am (UTC)Re dusting etc, I see why we don't want things to be dirty, but feel no sense of reward when things are clean - only that it makes other people happy, which is something. And it is utterly soul destroying when hours of boring irritating housework is ruined in 20 minutes by people using the house, as they must! For this reason I would rather clean the bathroom than the kitchen. It may be dirtier in the first place, but the job stays done longer. Getting a cleaner is one of the best things that ever happened to me!
Being occupied in a constructive and interesting way is bound to be good for people and some jobs do bring happiness, or are necessary. But for the main, I would rather be down dancing on the streets in Brixton!