Ramblings
by So
I don't know how it exactly happened. I was just sitting in front of my computer just like any other day. I had quit my game of spider solitaire. I turned on the radio. Z100's playing Shake ya Tailfeather, urgg. KROCK's playing Numb by Linkin-they-need-to-feel-my-pain-park, urgggggg. PLW's on to commercials. Then I just tuned the radio in hopes of finding some decent music. I ended up in Q1043, the self proclaimed New York's #1 classic rock station. Hell, they were playing The Wall, so I naturally stayed tune. God I love that song, I don't know if it's my oppressed teenage soul talking, but it clicks to us in every sense of the way. We don't need no education. I mean, come on. Then there came that famous line, which inspired me to write this little thing. Well, I hope you enjoy it or at least get what I'm rambling about.
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Who are we? And by we I mean everyone in the world. Where do we belong? It's an age old question, I know. I remember once I asked my friend Melody where she categorized herself. She bluntly answered she never categorized herself and didn't intend to ever. If you really think about it, I mean really, really think about it like I did, it's a load of bullshit. As long as you live, you'll always belong to one thing or another. So, to all you pretentious people out there who think you're too cool to be grouped into anything, you couldn't be more wrong.
I personally think it's always been that way. Think about it, in the old times the people who didn't belong were often shunned or in the worst cases, killed. Best examples are Salem Witch Trials, concentration camps, feminists, Martin Luther King Jr., and even Jesus. These unfortunate events make up the world as we know it today. Our human race watched all this and it taught us something. It taught us an unwritten law of survival; find a group and hide in its masses.
We can't help it. The law is buried too deep in our instincts. It's almost as though if we were born in a mold. It makes us a certain way and it automatically categorizes us. But before I get into more details I better discuss what I mean by a mold.
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I'll ask this question again. Tell me, who are we? In the simplest form, we are human beings. Then we are divided into male and female. Next it's our races and nationalities. You might be black, white, Asian, Hispanic, etc. You might be from US, Britain, France, Spain, Guatemala, etc. You might be in your 20s. 30s, 40s, 70s, whatever. These are not what I mean by molds. Molds can be broken, molds can be bent, misshaped. But these things can't. I mean, you can't turn a white person to black or vice versa. You can't make a 30 year old back to their 20s. No, those things are impossible.
As I said before, molds can be broken, they can be bent, misshapen, etc. Because they are ideas and thoughts rather than your image or what you are to the world. Our ideas are what ultimately groups us, your image and character only helps. For example, Ku Klux Klan were all whites. Race is something you can't change no matter how you try. But what really brought them together was their idea, in this case, their hatred for minorities.
I suppose we were all born under a similar mold, almost universal. We were born with a common sense, we know what's right and what's wrong, we know what's normal and what's not But what happens when someone's idea dramatically changes one or more senses of the masses? Thus breaking the mold. Believe it or not, this happened and happens many, many times.
Think about it, Jesus broke the mold of what was considered right in religion by introducing Christianity. Galileo broke the mold of what everyone in the world believed by stating that our Earth revolves around the sun rather than the opposite. Abraham Lincoln broke the mold of what was considered normal in US by abolishing slavery. Susan B. Anthony and her suffragists broke the mold of what was expected by a woman at that time by demanding voting rights. So what does it all mean? It means breaking all the rules, it means introducing a completely new idea to the masses. It means a revolution in every sense of the word.
This brings us back to the unwritten law of survival. I guess having your own mind and ideas come with a price. Because let's face it, people with power hate anything that threats their all mighty position. Who wouldn't? A revolt of any kind does exactly what they fear, and who led the struggles? These different people who stood defiant against what those pigs were preaching to us, they broke that mold and ultimately became the biggest threats to them. That's why so many of them were killed.
Then they were made into examples, his is what you get when you go against us. Sad to say that the message was heard loud and clear. We all eventually retreat back to our groups, to our molds, deserting what we fiercely believed in. We don't want to risk our lives, it's simple as that.
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Well there you have it, my senseless rambling and thoughts that make absolutely no sense. But if you read this, I mean really, really read this, it's really something to think about. Do you really want to be categorized and grouped? It means you'll never be free as a human being, but on a more positive note, you'll never be alone in this world. It's something you need to weight out on your own. God, everything feels hopeless doesn't it? Pink Floyd was right, on and on you're just another brick on the wall.