Every artist is a cannibal
every poet is a thief
all kill for inspiration
and then sing about the grief.
― Bono
These plays that one sees nowadays--the ones that are purely fictional, as well as those based on history--all, or most of them, are acknowledged to be pure garbage, without rhyme or reason, yet they're relished by the common folk, who think they're good when they're so far from being so; and the authors who write them and the actors who play in them say that they have to be that way because that's what the public wants. Meanwhile, plays that are carefully crafted and follow the plot as the rules demand please only the four discerning people capable of comprehending them. The rest of the people have no way of understanding their art, but authors and producers feel it's better to earn a living with the many than to be in the good graces of the few.
-Don Quixote, Part One Chapter XLVIII
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
-Ecclesiastes 1
Today I watch endless commercials about sequels and remakes and garbage stories being told again and again. Then I open Don Quixote which was written in 1605 and see the same lament being expressed. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Everyone knows the world we are living in could be better. We know we could demand better media, we could demand a more loving world but we simply settle. We simply repeat what has been done before.
Why?
I talk to my friends about growing a garden in the city and giving the food away. I talk to my friends about everyone creating out of the passion of their hearts and not charging for it. To rid the world of money and to instead function out of generosity and love. The answer is always the same. ALWAYS. That would be nice but it isn't possible.
We all want it. Deep down we all want to give up this competition. This struggle but we don't.
It's a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won't be free
...There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you're starting from the top
And you can't do that
-Eddie Vedder
There ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day.
-Brett Dennen
I want freedom. I want love. I'm not going to settle for garbage movies, I'm not going to settle for a greed with which we have agreed. I do think less is more. I don't want to keep score. We are all equal. We all want to create. We all want to be happy. We all want to be worry free.
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.
― Mahatma Gandhi
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Practice resurrection.
-Wendell Berry
The Arawak Garden is the way I want to see the world. I want to work for nothing. I want to love those who do not deserve it.
There are things we can do
But from the things that work there are only two
And from the two that we choose to do
Peace will win
And fear will lose
There's faith and there's sleep
We need to pick one please because
Faith is to be awake
And to be awake is for us to think
And for us to think is to be alive
-Twenty One Pilots
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. This may be true but I have hope and believe what Martin Luther King Jr. said.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Behold, I am making all things new.
-Revelation 21
I choose faith.
Oh Honey - Don't You Worry, Love
every poet is a thief
all kill for inspiration
and then sing about the grief.
― Bono
These plays that one sees nowadays--the ones that are purely fictional, as well as those based on history--all, or most of them, are acknowledged to be pure garbage, without rhyme or reason, yet they're relished by the common folk, who think they're good when they're so far from being so; and the authors who write them and the actors who play in them say that they have to be that way because that's what the public wants. Meanwhile, plays that are carefully crafted and follow the plot as the rules demand please only the four discerning people capable of comprehending them. The rest of the people have no way of understanding their art, but authors and producers feel it's better to earn a living with the many than to be in the good graces of the few.
-Don Quixote, Part One Chapter XLVIII
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
-Ecclesiastes 1
Today I watch endless commercials about sequels and remakes and garbage stories being told again and again. Then I open Don Quixote which was written in 1605 and see the same lament being expressed. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Everyone knows the world we are living in could be better. We know we could demand better media, we could demand a more loving world but we simply settle. We simply repeat what has been done before.
Why?
I talk to my friends about growing a garden in the city and giving the food away. I talk to my friends about everyone creating out of the passion of their hearts and not charging for it. To rid the world of money and to instead function out of generosity and love. The answer is always the same. ALWAYS. That would be nice but it isn't possible.
We all want it. Deep down we all want to give up this competition. This struggle but we don't.
It's a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won't be free
...There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you're starting from the top
And you can't do that
-Eddie Vedder
There ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day.
-Brett Dennen
I want freedom. I want love. I'm not going to settle for garbage movies, I'm not going to settle for a greed with which we have agreed. I do think less is more. I don't want to keep score. We are all equal. We all want to create. We all want to be happy. We all want to be worry free.
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.
― Mahatma Gandhi
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Practice resurrection.
-Wendell Berry
The Arawak Garden is the way I want to see the world. I want to work for nothing. I want to love those who do not deserve it.
There are things we can do
But from the things that work there are only two
And from the two that we choose to do
Peace will win
And fear will lose
There's faith and there's sleep
We need to pick one please because
Faith is to be awake
And to be awake is for us to think
And for us to think is to be alive
-Twenty One Pilots
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. This may be true but I have hope and believe what Martin Luther King Jr. said.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Behold, I am making all things new.
-Revelation 21
I choose faith.
Oh Honey - Don't You Worry, Love