facts versus thoughts

A child is carried by his mother for 9 months. He is literally in her. 

Yet when the child grows and begins to resemble his mother, we say to his mother, “I can definitely see you in him.” 

But really he was in her.

Maybe you could argue that the child is made from a part of his mother and a part of his father and that therefore his mother and father are literally in him -- but if this is the case (and it is), the mother and father are not in their child; rather, they are their child and their child is them. Because the child is made from his mother and his father and from nothing else. 

He is his parents. 

They are the same but they are not the same.

curiosity curls sometimes
“do not disturb”
but/so
I silently pry
pretending to listen above your head
right versus wrong
subtle movements and minor adjustments
eyes trace the words I am not supposed to see
privy to something private
not intended for me,
but in which I delight
it’s full of words, full of words
fluttering pages, glimpses of sense
imploring, entreating to be read
for only once read do they awaken
and once awaken, alive, and real
I want to devour the art of another
it is the art which tastes best
seeing what it is like
for someone else 

 

A society, regardless of ethnic variation, will always have a dominant culture which determines and influences government and social systems. The ideas of a society are founded and governed by a dominant group (the group with the most cultural capital) and this group defines the dominant ideologies of that society. Those who follow a culture in which that culture’s ideologies deviate from the ruling group’s ideologies will be less prominent in numbers, suppressed, ignored or belittled, and so a society can never become truly multicultural for this reason, as the minorities’ ideologies will never properly surface. A society may have several ethnicities which combine or co-exist within its community, but all people, regardless of culture, will be answerable to one dominant culture; that is, the culture which rules the social structure of that society. In effect, a society may be multi-ethnic, but not multicultural.

Reasons why we laugh:


1. They’re somehow sexually connected, like a pun or rude joke.
2. They’re stupid, silly, dumb, ridiculous.
3. At someone’s expense, often someone who has been caused physical pain, and usually their misgivings have been caused out of stupidity (either their own or someone else’s).
4.   Something is awkward/We are nervous.

In disbelief (number 2.).
Because we feel it’s appropriate, required -- forced laughter (number 4.).

We are in such an amazingly fantastic mood that we cannot find any other way to express our feelings. Involuntary laughing.

There is a quote which goes:

“Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. It is that we are powerful beyond all measure.”

I honestly believe that my deepest fear is that I am inadequate.