Had an excellent conversation about very much philosophical stuff...
What I've been pondering about lately, is the incredibly dark, crazy direction this world is taking a course to, and the powerlessness, the cynical hopelessness and the deep sadness I feel as a result of seeing it. It's beginning to show in my lyrics increasingly, side by side with themes of personal trouble and brokenness.
So much is happening in this world that is insane and outright evil. Decisions get made behind our backs, information is kept from us, and we are led to our doom like lambs to the slaughter. There's so much we should change but too few people really willing to do it. We are comfortable, we live cozy lives, not really caring about the impending doom. So long as it is not us suffering, we don't really care. But if we do, the powerlessness gets us.
The tide of bad news everyday is just overwhelming. It's nigh impossible to keep up with what's going on and not drown into hopelessness. "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" sums it up for me quite well. That might be why most people choose not to keep up and think for themselves, but choose to live their comfy lives in ignorance and in their small circles. They choose peaceful slavery. The easy choice. Because the feeling of powerlessness is such a huge wall, impossible to climb over, impossible to penetrate.
But one can choose the other. One can choose to change something. Maybe the key to liberation lies in the very fact that however much one person tries, it is impossible to change everything that is wrong in this world. We can however, choose something to change and get other people behind it. That's how great changes have happened in this world. That's how great people have emerged. They were people who chose their battles according to their passions. Of course, evil things like imposing totalitarian rule on everybody can also be someone's passion (and we know for a fact that it has been) but that's a whole other matter...
The lights shine in the darkness
