I'm condemning everybody, by the way.
Reading the poem before reading the explanation is encouraged, but not mandatory.
Yes; the poem "Mankind's Creation" is a social commentary.
It references the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the giant statues of Buddha's in Afghanistan, suicide bombers, rocket launchers, grenade lob-ers, throwers of rocks, the Middle East, South East Asia, and so many other places. People who abandon their responsibilities, rapists, liars, confidence artists, the people who stand by the sidelines and witness all of this, sadists and masochists, users, addicts, self defacers, those who corrupt innocence and plant seeds of violence and hatred.
It has taken me seventeen years to realize that I have been a witness to a war zone my entire life. I was a less than a decade old when the Towers were felled, the first time in my life that I could feel the fear, so palatable. I don't remember the years much, anymore. The bus and subway bombings in London, shootings at Community Centers and schools (colleges, primary, secondary,) gang symbols, drug trafficking, human trafficking, abuse- emotional, verbal, physical, sexual. Hate, in so many different forms, insidious, sneaking into our minds, poisoning our thoughts. Darfur, where genocide rears its nasty head, countries that rule by god, others whose rules deny god and forbid god. Ideas, ideals, conflicting wants and desires, the need to be right, to have status- This is what drives the human race. This is what destroys us. I hope it is not to late.
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there is none. when you think about it all and let it sink in, there is no premise for second chance. the world can't get any better, only worse. all things lead to higher entropy, as thermodynamics explain. this can be applied to the social world as well as scientific b/c people's minds are slowly decaying to the point that they don't realize the harm they're causing in pursuing selfish desires, decaying to the point that they don't realize the purpose for morality b/c all thats left is themselves. all thats left is solitude and "independence". there is no hope left. on a global scale at least. the world, as is, can not exist any way besides the way it currently is. and when you think about it all, how can you not get depressed? how can you see any purpose in life? i know i don't. which is why i try avoiding thinking about it. but i'm weak, and if you're strong enough to keep thinking about it, and try to do something, i commend you, and will support you any way i can.
ReplyDeleteUh, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI never said there was a premise for a second chance. I actually straight up said that there was no second chance. {last stanza.}
There is a part of me that is thinking- 'every new action creates greater disorder, and eventually, there will be no order.' while another part of me thinks- 'THIS is ours- to care for, to believe in. We make our destiny and our reality. ' You will notice that I typed 'our,' not 'mine.' Those who got to that point, where there is nothing left aside from thier wants, are not independent. the things they want are what they depend on.
Thinking about this makes me want to change it. I don't get depressed because, 1. I tried that- it sucked.
2. you can't change things if you aren't doing anything.
I'm living because if I don't, that's a waste. because things can change. Even this, terrible horrible world, or at least stop getting worse.
There are some things people can control. they choose not to. they pay for it. someone avenges them. it goes on and on. I'm sick of it; it makes me angry, livid. I refuse to stand by. I don't mind if I lose every fight. I tried, at least, and if I fail-so be it. success is not everything.
i meant independent from other people, but if you notice, i quoted independent, so to add a conotation (bleah, i can't spell) other than the traditional positive one associated to independence (due to our american upbringings).
ReplyDeletei dunno, as i said, i'm weak. apparently you're strong. i can't look at things like that. when it stays that way, and nothing changes, and people just get to be more hateable and crueler it's hard to fight for change. the ideal would be if someone can do a complete 180, like the beast did in beauty and the beast (sorry, just watched it, its on my mind), when they're shown a little kindness. unfortunately though, life doesn't work like that. very few people can get over themselves and change (myself included). and i think the real message behind that movie is how sad this world is b/c if you think about it, the change that happened in beauty and the beast was so unbelievable and unrealistic, so its just pointing out how much improbable real change is.