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Red Pandas and the Stoic American Indian.
8 years ago
Tonight I wanted to do some good and it backfired, so heres some words.
I'm sure that many people think I'm angry all the time, I certainly put off that vibe by my expression. But truly I spend a good amount of my time happy, but its a happiness built on a house of cards. Sometimes something happens and the crack forms in the glue holding up the cards and they all fall away to reveal all the sadness I carry around with me. It may not be obvious at the time, the will to remain stoic is a powerful force that keeps it looking like nothing happened. But later when no-one is looking at all falls apart, but by the next day all is right again, or at least thats what the outside says.
The American Indian has remained steadfast despite a long history of loss, the caricature is of a stoic and emotionless front. But its a veneer on that weighty history of defeat at the hands of the government. The United States took from us our land and people in the name of progress, named things after that which they had tried to wipe out, and ground on to continue the fight elsewhere. The grind of progress pushes on and we take away from the resources to ensure the continuation of the human race are squandered on the very things that will destroy it. Its two and a half minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock.
The Red Panda faces the same quandary, mankind takes from it both its territory and numbers, leaving the population dwindling.
Violence is evil. Every day I question the perpetration of it in the name of good, I feel its an expression of mankind's addiction to battle. We think that some powerful act can achieve our goals of good, but in the end we will only take on the evil we fight and embolden our enemies to lay down more in response. We shouldn't be fighting evil with evil, we should fight evil with good. But our addiction to battle grows strong and the more we get as a society, the more we crave.
Lets do good today, no punching, no kicking, no hateful words.
Lets save the Red Pandas.
https://redpandanetwork.org/get-inv.....red-panda-day/
I'm sure that many people think I'm angry all the time, I certainly put off that vibe by my expression. But truly I spend a good amount of my time happy, but its a happiness built on a house of cards. Sometimes something happens and the crack forms in the glue holding up the cards and they all fall away to reveal all the sadness I carry around with me. It may not be obvious at the time, the will to remain stoic is a powerful force that keeps it looking like nothing happened. But later when no-one is looking at all falls apart, but by the next day all is right again, or at least thats what the outside says.
The American Indian has remained steadfast despite a long history of loss, the caricature is of a stoic and emotionless front. But its a veneer on that weighty history of defeat at the hands of the government. The United States took from us our land and people in the name of progress, named things after that which they had tried to wipe out, and ground on to continue the fight elsewhere. The grind of progress pushes on and we take away from the resources to ensure the continuation of the human race are squandered on the very things that will destroy it. Its two and a half minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock.
The Red Panda faces the same quandary, mankind takes from it both its territory and numbers, leaving the population dwindling.
Violence is evil. Every day I question the perpetration of it in the name of good, I feel its an expression of mankind's addiction to battle. We think that some powerful act can achieve our goals of good, but in the end we will only take on the evil we fight and embolden our enemies to lay down more in response. We shouldn't be fighting evil with evil, we should fight evil with good. But our addiction to battle grows strong and the more we get as a society, the more we crave.
Lets do good today, no punching, no kicking, no hateful words.
Lets save the Red Pandas.
https://redpandanetwork.org/get-inv.....red-panda-day/
