Palingenesia

I flick through the news channels, through the cartoons, half ass watching whatever sitcoms airing, or passing up mulchy morning soap operas (unless its the middle of a catfight), when I get curious about the ways of the television set. I like the commericials second best.

What I like first is the mixtures of content that I see. So many different things are presented, and hell just are able to be presented electronically, virtually anywhere. I was thinking that I liked that.

Right now I'm jamming along to Billy Joels hit, 'We Didn't Start the Fire'. 40% for creative and now classic musicality (omg it IS a word ) 60% for content. I likes it muchly. Greater even since it notes a lot of this part of the world's free radicals, all those crazy controversies that people have all sorts of reactions to.

Ain't it wonderful?

I think most people have been asked, or wondered when and where they'd best have been born in. I used to love that question, I didn't feel that these times bordered on what I wanted to see of life, where being too smart was considered a social flaw.

"Reinisance period" was the response I'd jut out, hoping to not sound like some cliche coffee house bench warmer. It was a time when Europe was questioning the foundations and the integrations of the church, the government, the culture (and everything that insisted the three were and should be all the same) were questioned, reevaluated. "... but only if I was a man would I be able to enjoy it then, in the way that I would want to observe it."

But not too long ago, walking down a busy road and running my finger through chainlinked fences, it hit me---what if, what if I wasn't born in the wrong time?
Why not here, now? Here is also important.

Society now, look at it and where ours fits in with the rest of the world, or simply (or unsimply) where we correspond into either. i think about the problems of todays world (at least through the scope of this society) The complexity and wide ranges of issues being faced-- excites me. Why?

There's so much to get caught up in, and as such, it's hard to find a dull moment in this countries events. There are a lot of opportunities in this modern world. There's a lot of disbelief these days here, in many things. Ways for ideas to be passed on are being utilized everyday. Todays kids are getting forced on them the larger issues their parents tackled all their lives, but I see so many being forged by such dilemmas. Homeland crimes are getting scary, making us wonder if there is some sort of pitfall in our society? People don't always agree but now have the right to disagree and what dangerous or honorable things they do with that power. Politics are becoming increasingly divided and heated as we try to map out what the core of order and logic is. How about how we are allowed and encouraged to be our own persons, and the pros and cons of that being such a highlight in our culture? How about our accelerated lifestyles and economy that we dwell in?

Life is getting easy to pass by, and it is asking more and more for attention to detail. With the rushed pace that we live in here, with all the various things that demand our attention, it seems like we are moving on to a higher level which asks for more of ourselves. It is a time to rise, not pretend the world is broken and unsuited for us.


"... schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render and ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death-- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be-- if we are to experience long survival-- a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. For it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue. Peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence is a snare. Whe our day is come for the victory of death, death closes in; there is nothing we can do, except be crucified-- and resurrected; dismembered totally, and then reborn." -Joseph Campell

No, we didn't start the fire. But we're not just going to fight it, we're going to kindle it, and hopefully be passed through it a few times.

Troubles of today are wide and many. We are imparting from traditional methods of learning and thinking. Society here is becoming very decentralized and I would say getting the opportunity to evolve, instead of revolving around just one source. More and more it seems humanity is not disintegrating because of all this, but widening it's lens on scoping out long hidden truths.

Not any part of it is an easy thing to label, and this is what with I fell in love.
Why am I so taken with right now- Todays beautiful complexity and the ability that today has that has never been had to be able to invite such.
(though english is not my best fit of language, I seem to syntax every sentence without mention of subjective context)


"Just when you think you've got it down
Watch it fly" thank Shawn Colvin's song 'Trouble' for the clippit, helps to explain what I am trying to say. It's getting harder to completely know something nowadays. We can no longer afford to take our definitions for granted or as uneditable. We must be open for evaluting things at all times in our lifes. Now more than ever we are being called to live with our lives, our eyes, our minds, and our hearts open. Wide open and constantly scoping.


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And reminding me of all of this, I want to throw in a song I never listened to before. Apology already given to those who are sensitive to profanity, however I feel it was done for creativity's sake, especially the deliberate use of contrasting images in this song, and invitation of contrast and the right to disagree.

Amen-

I'm siphoning gas from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as i do now
Ptolemy,Copernicus,Carl Jung
Pondering his existence,pondering,
Is God with me now?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes,I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?

My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots again

Can somebody say Amen?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our mothers,for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA,The NSA
It's all a front anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson,Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis,for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J.,Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi,for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call,
Amen for the unity of us all
Amen,Amen,Amen

And I am not unique.
We are all leave on this great big tree.
this tree that is life,that is God,that is you,that is me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask the stars, What for?
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh,can somebody say Amen?

-Paula Cole