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6 September 2008

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The whole nation was raised in a system of enforced obedience.

The athletes and cheerleaders, they still rule our world, while the intellectual, outsiders stand over in a corner and wonder what to do with our blogs.

I remember when I joined the football team. I decided I wanted to be popular.

I stuck with it and I discovered it wasn’t that hard. Then I had to learn, and it took a long time, that being popular did not a happy man make.

Now I embrace my rebellious geekness.

I believe the heart of the matter, at some point, is that the very small minority learn how to come together. I remember being with the unpopular kids at school, and they could never agree on anything. Afterall, they were dysfunctional to start with and not supported by society.

We still have that legacy.

What’s my point? I don’t know. I suppose that the jocks and heartless television personalities need to be taken down a notch. at the heart of all this anger that we point at each other’s paintings and creative processes, there is a revolutionary spirit. many of us are ashamed of it, but what are we going to do? are we going to ignore it forever? perhaps…I am just trying to be vulnerable.

I notice I tend to post on this blog when it is in crisis. I don’t know why, i suppose it is easier for me to force the question, that this type of media confronts me with. what is the point of all this connectivity, if the majority is made up of fundamentalist crazies? what is the point, what can the jedi knights agree on?

they say in dysfunctional families that each member assumes very typical roles, that match up to other families. perhaps in a blog community, such dynamics exist. what does that mean?

I don’t know what will happen to this, but I am inspired today, as I see a friend in pain, i am inspired to remain a little bit hopeful that people like us will find our moment, whatever that may mean.

if there is a god, he must recognize those souls who toil without reward for an inward truth, those types of individuals who sacrifice their livelihood, their families for a faith in something that they cannot even define.

perhaps we are the lost ones, perhaps I need to rejoin the football team. but i remember when i left that way of life, that seeking for other peoples’ approval, when I decided to embrace my inner geekdom. i remember feeling really good about it. i remember feeling like it was groovy.

well, there are some thoughts, all in response to this process, and I dig process. nothing is lost, nothing has been wasted if it was done with love, and I know all this has been.

peace,

akbar lightning

4 Comments »

globatron said:

interesting point.

after watching the RNC and DNC the last couple of weeks I agree with you. It seems the country is split over the ones who don’t fit in, over the jocks and popular crowd.

The name calling RNC wants to be the crowd that runs the school with empty threats, and fight with us to be popular.

The RNC points to the intellectual elites and asks us how we would want to vote for them, they aren’t just like you. They aren’t the common man. We are.

Now I wonder when being intellectual has become something to be snarky about. When did our country become a place where we don’t want intelligent people running it?

Be Strong and Fight with McCAin for the RNC. He’s a maverick.

vs.

Universal healthcare, pro-choice, intelligent diplomacy for our foreign policy, a tax cut for the middle class for the Democrats. an orderly withdrawal from Iraq.

So by talking about their “policies” they have made people realize that they are intelligent and have a plan and ye the RNC can say that it’s all rhetoric because they are the smart crowd. Don’t listen to us Fight. Fight and Win. Country first. Like a flipping football pep rally.

And what with this blog? Well, I suppose I wanted it to be a beacon of truth. A house upon a hill. Where we all began to not self promote ourselves but promote others. Where we all talked about serious intellectual issues that we deal with personally, in our culture, and in our art.

I will back away from it for a bit. I need to regroup mentally. I do feel we have come along way and that great conversations have been had. What have we gotten out of it? I have gotten a belonging feeling. Like I have found my group in high school. The ones who met in the library before 1st period and studied, and talked about the meaning of life. As the RNC would call us the intellectual elites. We all graduate in the top 20 in a class out of 800. Five kids to graduate no.1, no. 2, no.5, and so on. I was no. 20. One went onto Harvard. One clepped the first two years at U.F. I guess that’s what it has all been for me. Trying to find belonging that I haven’t been able to find in a city, and a culture that has us all initially cut off from all pursuits of intellectual conversation.

Thank you for having these conversations with me everyone.

I’m hoping we win the White House.

- 6 September 2008 at 12:58 pm

markcreegan said:

i hear you akbar and thank you for such thoughtfulness. Times of crisis call for such measures, and you sir seem to be very adept.
Anyway, convergence and connections, i feel a post coming on…

- 7 September 2008 at 1:21 am

mp said:

boo hoo to much patting on the back or cheerleading as a friend said last week, fuck popularity there is much to be done these rnc bastards are pulling the wool over the many, it doesn’t matter what role you play in society when it is this fucked… voting standing in a line waiting for that mystical reasoning to happen. wishful thinking

- 8 September 2008 at 12:37 pm

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