Of recent, I rediscovered this blog and was racked with guilt. I've been reading how a lot of my other friends are keeping up their blogs despite ridiculously busy schedules. I also feel that I should be sharing a lot more here.
Recently, being enlightened by the activities of the UN, bureaucratic systems, I feel like I'm getting more in touch with the "realities" of life---feeling how close to home humanitarian issues are: issues of hunger, hatred, violence, genocide. The threat of hate is so real in all of our societies. It's futile to repeat once again, the giant echoes that have fallen from Norway of recent.
It's the HUMAN MIND I realize, the human psyche that has been creating such confusion. Unfortunately from a young age, I've come to terms with the idea that as long as human beings have minds, there will always be those who are tempted, or leaning toward violence, strong ideologies that seem to cut, box, and label so much of humanity. The threads that connect us in humanity seem to be dissolving so quickly, since we are all trying to strive toward a high-quality of living, Westernization (which I realize after reading much of Barthes) that is egocentric and individualistic, rather than understanding the underlying organic systems that connect us all.
But perhaps this is all a response into a greater universal idea---one of balance and duality. It surely is not a justification, but is rather some way to try and understand why there are those who live such opposite lives of luck and of total deprivation, that there are those who are able to allow their capacities to be fulfilled and those who can never be viewed as a human being with full dignity.
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