Thoughts: He was a civil rights activist. He fought for much more than just African Americans. he did much more than that but this is where my mind starts to wander into tangent land
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Nickles: Do I look as though I'd laughed? / If you had seen what I have seen / You'd never laugh again! . . . / (He stares at the mask) / Weep either . . .
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They see the world. They do. They see it. / From going to and fro in the earth, / From walking up and down, they see it. / I know what Hell is now--to see. / Consciousness of consciousness . . .
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He sees the parked car by the plane tree. / He sees behind the fusty door, / Beneath the rug, those almost children / Struggling on the awkward seat-- / Every impossible delighted dream / She's ever had of loveliness, of wonder, / Spilled with her garters to the filthy floor. / Absurd despair! Ridiculous agony! / (He looks at the mask in his hands.) / What has any man to laugh at! / The panting crow by the dry tree / Drags dusty wings. God's mercy brings / The rains--but not to such as he."
The way I see it, I have power. As a middle class, white, educated male I have more power than most of the people in the world. Hell, just living in the US means I have more power than most people. I want to learn a way to harness said power
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Hey, I am a half white, suburban, educated male. I am doing pretty good for people who want my opinion. But as much as I am pessimistic about the ability of one person to actually make a difference in the world I am also an idealist when it comes to this fact. I am not talking about making a differnce through pre-established ideologies, groups, or even theories. My problem with working through thoses lines is the fact that I view the assumptions in which they are based are flawed. My goal is to create a coherent, workable theory which may work better than our current form of liberalism. I know I am getting way ahead of myself but there is plenty of information out there to utilize in creating this system. I believe Deliberative and Agonistic theories of democracy are on the way but are still founded upon some fundamental flaws. You cannot fiat equal access to the democratic proccess and you cannot fiat participation. There always will be those who feel alienated or apathetic. The point of sociology is to understand those who feel that
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I don't think you can force people to stop oppressing other people--removing one oppressor just makes a power vacuum for another to step in. All you can do is encourage people not to let themselves be oppressed.
That's why I like Martin Luther King, Jr. He told people to stand up for themselves and was willing to stand up with them. That's all I think I can do, as well. Besides, if I was colorblind it would ruin all my completely racist jokes that I tell all the time, and that removes my loudest form of acceptance ;)
If you're looking for an interesting book on Oppression (at least in terms of theatre and society) you should check out any one of the following by Augusto Boal--I know I talk about him a lot, but he is one of the most interesting applied theorists I've ever come across.
The Theatre of the Oppressed (experiences with small, oppressed communities in South America and elsewhere) Games for Actors and Non-Actors (Revising his initial theories after seeing the techniques in action.) Rainbow of Desire (based on his experiences doing forum theatre in North America w/ psychological oppressions--basis of drama therapy)
Make lots of babies and encourage them to think the way you think.
Sure, you could argue that once your babies reach adulthood, they are prone to select their own proclivities, but this only means you must breed more than once and play the law of averages.
Fight as we may, more often than not, we are all the product of our origin.
I may bitch and moan about my family here and there, but underneath it all, they created me and they formed me. They gave me the tools I needed to live the way I do. I just took their standards one step further.
How do I plan on changing the world? I'm still working on that. Until I figure it out, I'll keep gathering power as quickly as I can so once I figure out exactly what I want to do, I'll have the societal strength to do it. ;)
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Nickles: Do I look as though I'd laughed? / If you had seen what I have seen / You'd never laugh again! . . . / (He stares at the mask) / Weep either . . .
[ . . . ]
They see the world. They do. They see it. / From going to and fro in the earth, / From walking up and down, they see it. / I know what Hell is now--to see. / Consciousness of consciousness . . .
[ . . .]
He sees the parked car by the plane tree. / He sees behind the fusty door, / Beneath the rug, those almost children / Struggling on the awkward seat-- / Every impossible delighted dream / She's ever had of loveliness, of wonder, / Spilled with her garters to the filthy floor. / Absurd despair! Ridiculous agony! / (He looks at the mask in his hands.) / What has any man to laugh at! / The panting crow by the dry tree / Drags dusty wings. God's mercy brings / The rains--but not to such as he."
~J.B.
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That's why I like Martin Luther King, Jr. He told people to stand up for themselves and was willing to stand up with them. That's all I think I can do, as well. Besides, if I was colorblind it would ruin all my completely racist jokes that I tell all the time, and that removes my loudest form of acceptance ;)
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The Theatre of the Oppressed (experiences with small, oppressed communities in South America and elsewhere)
Games for Actors and Non-Actors (Revising his initial theories after seeing the techniques in action.)
Rainbow of Desire (based on his experiences doing forum theatre in North America w/ psychological oppressions--basis of drama therapy)
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So you want to change the world? Breed.
Make lots of babies and encourage them to think the way you think.
Sure, you could argue that once your babies reach adulthood, they are prone to select their own proclivities, but this only means you must breed more than once and play the law of averages.
Fight as we may, more often than not, we are all the product of our origin.
I may bitch and moan about my family here and there, but underneath it all, they created me and they formed me. They gave me the tools I needed to live the way I do. I just took their standards one step further.
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