We have a winner.
Zach Johnsen
A Simple Truth
All around the world, in Akansas and Afghanistan, in London and Leningrad, from the noisy hustle of Manhattan to the silence of the Mohave desert, people are pretty much the same.
Oh sure we dress up in the multi-colored clothes of nationalism and religion and culture but underneath that superficial outer show we all want the same things. We want peace and prosperity for ourselves and our families. We want to be valued and loved. We want our children to grow up healthy and secure. We want the simple things that go to make up a worthwhile human life.
When our government sends soldiers to foreign countries to kill they’re not destroying some other species that is evil incarnate.They’re snuffing out the lives and hopes of real people just like you and me. When the bombs explode they kill brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers just like ours. The houses they turn into rubble are homes like our own homes.
This is surely something we need to remember the next time someone starts beating the drum of war or fanning the flames of hatred and fear. The simple truth is that, all over the world, across race and country and religion, what connects us is far more real and powerful than anything that divides us.
It would be so brilliant if @DAVID_LYNCH produced the Oscars. It would last two seasons and we’d never really find out who won and what for.
Damon Wise
(via bbook)
“If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” — A Man Without a Country, 2005
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