Tuesday, October 25. 2011
The Award
Her overlong fringe kept coming down.
She pushed it upwards a few times, then stopped bothering about it. Her speech was fabulous, she knew that.
She had emphasised what she would have said, the artist, back then. The one she had taken her ideas from. The one they all owed it to. Entertaining, diverting, funny, the papers would say.
The audience pleased, she had let her thoughts crawl back to her fringe. What the heck.
© 2011
Emma
She pushed it upwards a few times, then stopped bothering about it. Her speech was fabulous, she knew that.
She had emphasised what she would have said, the artist, back then. The one she had taken her ideas from. The one they all owed it to. Entertaining, diverting, funny, the papers would say.
The audience pleased, she had let her thoughts crawl back to her fringe. What the heck.
© 2011
Emma
Thursday, October 20. 2011
Widespread Disease
Burnout is a defect deeply connected to the absence of love.
I surely do not talk about love in any religious or mystical way, I am refering to the strong bonds people can develope - friends, family members or lovers - that enable them to stick up for each other and care.
Yes, this does involve a feeling of responsibility, but despite the fact that the majority of the human race seems to regard this as an annoying duty, feeling restrained by it, I say, it is actually freedom. Because love will lead to shared responsibilty and to taking care of each other. That is actually freedom, since freedom is no longer the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Our freedom ends where the freedom of the one we care for begins. That is the responsible part of love.
So, why now is burnout connected to the absence of love? Because it is the effect of taking responsibility without any bonds.
Or with too much of it.
© 2011
I surely do not talk about love in any religious or mystical way, I am refering to the strong bonds people can develope - friends, family members or lovers - that enable them to stick up for each other and care.
Yes, this does involve a feeling of responsibility, but despite the fact that the majority of the human race seems to regard this as an annoying duty, feeling restrained by it, I say, it is actually freedom. Because love will lead to shared responsibilty and to taking care of each other. That is actually freedom, since freedom is no longer the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Our freedom ends where the freedom of the one we care for begins. That is the responsible part of love.
So, why now is burnout connected to the absence of love? Because it is the effect of taking responsibility without any bonds.
Or with too much of it.
© 2011
Saturday, October 15. 2011
How the Mighty Might Fall
This time, it's different. It's not only the youth. It's not only the left. It's not only the poor. Suddenly, hardly unexpectedly, just about everyone is outraged that there are the few who live from and make money out of the many. No longer, no more. They come and shout, or they come gloomy and silently with their banners, they stand or walk, in sunshine or rain, but they come and they talk and demand. It's begun.
© 2011
© 2011
Thursday, October 6. 2011
The Sweater Itch
It's just not fair. For years, no one dared to cross the line and say anything against the show or its protagonists. On the contrary, people used to cling to their TV sets, whenever it or one of its early reruns where broadcast. Then, all of a sudden, with one silly little phrase by Nick Hornby (which was, admittedly, really funny) times changed. Cosby was out.
Merely reduced to ridicule, the sweater, once worn or even knitted and worn by just about everyone, became a symbol for dullness and the petit bourgeois himself, small-minded and insular.
But it's not fair. We all have developed since back then. We all took off the jumpers and reached out to highspeed internet and microfibre. And so would have Cosby, if the show had continued to the very day. Back then it was actually something new. And we need not deny that we might have enjoyed it - in those good old times. Do the maths, folks!
© 2011
The Maths
Merely reduced to ridicule, the sweater, once worn or even knitted and worn by just about everyone, became a symbol for dullness and the petit bourgeois himself, small-minded and insular.
But it's not fair. We all have developed since back then. We all took off the jumpers and reached out to highspeed internet and microfibre. And so would have Cosby, if the show had continued to the very day. Back then it was actually something new. And we need not deny that we might have enjoyed it - in those good old times. Do the maths, folks!
© 2011
The Maths
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