genteel hypocrites
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gone are the days of genteel hypocrisy......
fostered by a two-faced aristocracy......
now we have cursing, porn and the internet
I wonder how much worse
it can get.....
we have reality TV
and girls bearing their breasts.....
and no suffering of fools
and yet.....
I miss genteel hypocrisy......
but I like truth better
(this was something I thought of on the way home from the shops.....walking down the hill.....the guy in the bottle shop said something about sperm count, and I just thought about our lack of shame these days.....etc, but I couldn't get a good poem out of it.......although there is a good poem in the idea)
fostered by a two-faced aristocracy......
now we have cursing, porn and the internet
I wonder how much worse
it can get.....
we have reality TV
and girls bearing their breasts.....
and no suffering of fools
and yet.....
I miss genteel hypocrisy......
but I like truth better
(this was something I thought of on the way home from the shops.....walking down the hill.....the guy in the bottle shop said something about sperm count, and I just thought about our lack of shame these days.....etc, but I couldn't get a good poem out of it.......although there is a good poem in the idea)
....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
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i am excited to see where it goes...
most excited...
i wish i could live 600 years
but I like truth better"
It's a bit like that isn't it. Very true.
It will swing. The pendulum always swings to the extreme and then swings back again. History always reapeats.
History is not an absolute. It is a muddle of subjective narratives of events. Our narratives of events tend to be a desperate attempt at a pattern - circular, teleological, or pendular - and we seek corollaries between them to find their "similitude". Whatever your historiography, Western or Eastern, history repeats on a circle, a looping line or a swing because it has nothing to do with time and event. It's only an inherited psychopathology of interpretation.
History never repeats, I tell myself before I go to sleep...
I don't mean it repeats exactly, just some of the trends and ways of thinking. for example people were too conservitave so they started to rebel, but once the openess gets to much for people to deal with they will tend to become more conservative again until it goes to far again and people rebel. Just small things like that.
Yes. I see. I think in a place like Russia, pre- and post- 1917, where history is supposed to repeat, the bottom line was that it was always 0.5 percent of the population who kept the wealth. Narratives of new regimes and their failed utopias were always going to end with the idea they were repeating a prior regime's folly because there was no real redistribution of wealth.
Closer to home, did you ever see Roman Polanski's film of "Macbeth"? Polanski has Donalbain go visit the wyrd sisters after his brother Malcolm has taken the Scottish crown following Macbeth's death. People thought, ah, he's saying history repeats, but he's saying more: We think history repeats because we haven't broken the circle of ambition. The inference - the revolutionary point - is that it could be otherwise. We could stop history seeming to repeat itself. We could end this seeming inevitability of hierarchical greed. It needn't be evolution, baby.
I think I see where you are coming from. I do think my pendulum theory is kind of fitting to history/people, but I've always wondered why it never seems to settle in the middle, why do things always go to the extreme on either side? But pendulums slow, don't they? so if it continues this way maybe someday we'll all just be in the middle, never changing.
And I won't make the same mistakes
(Because I know)
Because I know how much time that wastes
(And function)
Function is the key
it can be. there needs to be checks to keep people in line. no one should be free to murder or rape etc
I know it's great isn't it Pasta, the world has changed so much since the fifties.....I love this modern period......with our complex problems and dumb solutions......I love our openness and frankness, our untethered in your face chutzpah, I wanna live forever, and be a part of the future too......it's gonna be so amazing......I really love life!!!!
"there needs to be checks to keep people in line" ahh yes, and so religion was invented
And I won't make the same mistakes
(Because I know)
Because I know how much time that wastes
(And function)
Function is the key