so whats new today, I listened to an amazing clip where matt damon is interviewed about sarah palin being the vp.. and followed up with a few clips on you tube .. insane .. the american system this woman is insane :-) go check it out .. it really puts it into perspective
but on a more serious note .. what would it be if it wasn't a slightly bit serious .. love that language .. been here in the moot for far to long...
but it brings me to social consciousness ... no not the Pc version thereof :-)
but how we are aware of the social environment we live in and how we perceive it. We often cast a blind eye around us not really noticing the social emphasis of the society around us .. or at times we really emphasize it :-) How is it is we can revel in the social displacement we exist in.. are we ever in a place where we can be ourselves? what do i mean by this? How many of us actually exist in a space that we can honestly call our own space.. or do we fake it more than we live it? how many of us can truly test to being able to say that we are in place where we can call home or in a social environment without constraints without guard and without any counting of our sentences?or would that be words. Mostly we are bound by societies conventions and norms, even for those who live on the fringe..
brings me back to a friend of ours who has a tattoo on her chin .. how do you explain to his to children when they ask? not us but her .. she had a most apt description of why she tattooed a line down her chin.. explaining that this was drawing a line in her life .. moving forward from where she was before .. that this line.. her father calls her sop streep is something that reminds her of a choice she made to turn things around. how many of us get a chance yet take it to turn a new leaf draw a line int eh sand and make a move make a choice and start a fresh? brings me to other people I know .. yea the innocent shal remain unnamed .. well they may not always be innocent who cannot make that transition into a new life. me included? what is it that binds us to that which we know? after reading the book by the dude who rode around Africa on a bicycle .. damn that was difficult to spell ss.. he gives new meaning to being driven and principled.. he went around Africa on notion that he should to prove a point .. what I am not to sure about.. but he did it and did not pay one bribe through almost 2 years of travel through africa .. the bribe continent .. even turning around and turning back from a border post to not go through cos they wanted a bribe... takes some guts.. or in some others language stupidity.. how do we equate idealism and honesty with reality or pragmatism ? that is a difficult question? can we allways b accountable for the choices we make.. or are we bound by circumstance .. there are many of you who have gone through situations .. i know cos i have.. where our idealism and integrity get challenged.. what is the base of our descision, and can we allways be sue of thr outcomes of what happen due to the decisions that are made in those situations. not that i am casting a stone in anyones direction with a log in my own eye :-) but rather only as a social observance .
enough of this crap arbitrary nothingness being rambled on above.. where do we stand the world is turning once again.. making some form of recovery from the pits of desperation a week ago?
saw an amazing blog/ site yesterday .. not so much for the content.. but rather for the name of the blog .. it is called the velveteen rabbi .. awesome name for a blog ... for real classic blogging go and look at my inspiration ... the flyfishingrabbi.com ..seriously cool dude that .. nice way of weaving reality of daily situations with fishing and life .. and then just for goodness sake he wraps the Torah and Judaism into it .. without pretense or effort .. truly talented dude that...
back to social networking .. I have now noticed a really interesting phenomena on face book recently where the emphasis has moved from the trivial to a fair reflection of humanity .. on more than a number of occasions .. both sincere and sarcastically this tools enables those without social ability and those with to be able to empathise with those around them.. the status of a member seems to hold some significance and seems to be a gateway to discourse .. would never have imagined this electronic media would actually be a form of social interaction and actually become a substitute reality that as meaning and that most of us subscribe to.
In this world of impersonalization of the humanity and lack of human touch this appears to have become a real substitute to human communication... maybe a touch harsh to say that this has replaced communication .. or a tad rediculous .. but it does seem to actually have value .. even for me..
so where to now in the space of nothingness..
not sure we have the answer to that .. but suppose we will get there ..
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