chris rock & late night thoughts <>
Yesterday was a rite of passage kind of day. All holidays are for me I
think. I make it that way. :) I snagged some epic and not-so-epic films
and a journal & spent the day. I have to admit, I like Chris Rock.
Not all the time of course. But yesterday, after the epic Pearl Harbor
(a reflection on some of our country's deafness & then the
beginning of hearing... the thunders of tradgedy), the second half of
the Chris Rock DVD I had rented spoke out some truths not often
articulated. He talked about money being our god and about the
interesting tensions between romantic relationships. I've grown to
enjoy laughing out loud when alone. It's a funny feeling but refreshing
somehow. :)
Many countries have days remembering their freedom's insurgence. Many do not. Their freedom has never come. Donald Gelpy (from GTU in Berkeley) talks about how life change happens holistically and yet progressively. Freedom may come for people politically or intellectually-- however, they may never see true spiritual or social or emotional freedom because of the cultural structures imposed upon them. Even countries with Freedom Days do not know the whole of freedom.
One of Chris Rock's jokes provoked me to remember what I read before
(below)...He talked about our activity as a wealthy people--
how we feed other nations but wait until they are starving.
We don't feed the hungry.We wait.
We eat and eat and eat. And wait to share our food when
death's scissors are 1 cm away from their lifeline.
Ian Cowley, in his book "Going Empty-Handed", writes:
"For many people in the West it has become the norm to have too much of everything. But not everyone in the world experiences life like this. In fact the vast majority of the population of the planet Earth have the opposite experience. They have too little of everything. The tragedy is that we live on a divided planet, divided by wealth and poverty, and the gulf between the two is growing every day that passes. The two are virtually two different worlds, with each having almost no conception of what life is like for someone who lives in the other world. Yet we share one world, a single earth which is becoming more and more a ‘global village’, a single family, interdependent and at the same time profoundly polarized and out of touch.
Ian Cowley later quotes Dr. Schumacher's writing in a book entitled Good Work:
“Having traced the effect of modern technology upon the nature of hard work and the patterns of human settlement let us now consider… its effect on human freedom. This is undoubtedly a tricky subject. What is freedom? Instead of going into long philosophical disquisitions, let us ask the more or less rebellious young what they are looking for:
Not be enslaved my machines, bureaucracies, boredom, ugliness.
I don’t want to become a moron, robot, commuter.
I don’t want to become a fragment of a person.
I want to do my own thing.
I want to live (relatively) simply.
I want to deal with people, not masks.
People matter. Nature matters. Beauty matters. Wholeness matters.
I want to be able to care.
posted by )(( hannah mello ))( @ 11:21 AM
2 Comments:
Have you ever taken out $300 at 4 o'clock in the morning for something positive?
Yes, I am a Chris Rock fan... smile and laugh ms. hannah!
thanks for your posts HM i still wanna see you display your work so we can all come and see it... come on... if your blog is this insightful and artistic then i gots to see your other work
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