when we refuse to hear their groans,
are we taking an active step to maintain a status quo?

"And in their groans they announce the end of the dominant social world."

isn't it that in every cry, and every unsympathetic and helpless response of "that's life", we are merely ignoring the simple criticism that something is not right in this world. that this "that's life" is not enough, and should not be enough and is not the end all.

we've put on blinders, bombarded ourselves with visuals of far-off places and realities, satiated ourselves and chased after images found on print and screen.
and above all, we've made ourselves numb to you and me.

this is old news really repeated in as many different forms and ways as possible.
this is old news rehashed, reprinted, repeated again
only because we've had goldfish memories,

'oh my is that seaweed i see?' goes off swimmingly

wake up. this bowl isn't what's meant to be. it's not the way things should be.

but until we break that glass, and surface, struggling, gasping for breath and realizing we need some external hand to lift us up and dump us into the big blue sea.

all talk is cheap. especially if you cannot live and share with the lens of another fish.
everything is meaningless, if you do not love and grieve, love and celebrate

"Empires are never built or maintained on the basis of compassion. The norms of law are never accommodated to persons, but persons accommodated to the norms. Otherwise the norms will collapse and with them the whole power arrangement... ... Empires live by numbness...

Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order"
Walter Brueggemann- The Prophetic Imagination

i am part of the dominant culture. i am not one of those living in the margins. and i've never been in great need.
and the love You propose is radical. It is fierce, it is strong, it destroys, it renews, it is life-giving
but only when i am first dead.

i fear knowledge, laying still, turning into apathy.
help me to love and live.