It's the darkside
It's not the eastside nor the westside.
No it's not.
It's not the northside nor the southside.
No it's not.
It's the darkside.
Yes it is.
It's the darkside.
Over the past few days I have been thinking about the number of my friends who have turned to the darkside. Now you have to understand what I call the darkside: it is that place where people seemingly revel in the idea of taking advantage of others; that place where the centre of the universe is you; that place that places fear ahead of love with sensibility. Yes, it's the darkside.
The darkside sucks. You struggle to have an honest conversation with somebody, because (it seems) like they like the idea of feeling superior over you. The road to the darkside is easy to follow, though there are some who choose not to walk along it. Some venture to the darkside through cultism; others through sheer ignorance.
The cultic route essentially is like, using the popular analogy, putting a frog in a pot of cool water on the stove. When you heat the pot to boil, the frog does not jump up even to the point of death. It is a dulling of your senses, refusing to acknowledge that you have dreams and visions that are worth the support of others.
The ignorant route is one which essentially results from a failure to enquire and engage with the process of getting knowledge and understanding the difference between good knowledge, bad knowledge, and things in between. It's a different form of cultism which essentially involves "going with the flow." The bottom line is that people on this route fail to make choices since they don't know that they can.
The cultist believes certain choices should NOT be made. The ignoramus does not know that there are choices that can be made.
I'm sure there are other ways to the darkside. Naturally, one such way is the purposeful route-some actually crave the darkness over the light. For me that is weird. Things are clear by light, but in the darkness, you can trip over an not know why. Your next trip could be the fatal one, or not.
I am not saying that the light is perfect-it's just better than the light. In the light you can see danger and avoid it-in the darkside both good and bad alike are dangerous. The bad takes you down just as much as it would in the light, or even more. But when good smacks you in the face in the dark you will treat it as bad cos you can't see what it is.
I like the light.
No it's not.
It's not the northside nor the southside.
No it's not.
It's the darkside.
Yes it is.
It's the darkside.
Over the past few days I have been thinking about the number of my friends who have turned to the darkside. Now you have to understand what I call the darkside: it is that place where people seemingly revel in the idea of taking advantage of others; that place where the centre of the universe is you; that place that places fear ahead of love with sensibility. Yes, it's the darkside.
The darkside sucks. You struggle to have an honest conversation with somebody, because (it seems) like they like the idea of feeling superior over you. The road to the darkside is easy to follow, though there are some who choose not to walk along it. Some venture to the darkside through cultism; others through sheer ignorance.
The cultic route essentially is like, using the popular analogy, putting a frog in a pot of cool water on the stove. When you heat the pot to boil, the frog does not jump up even to the point of death. It is a dulling of your senses, refusing to acknowledge that you have dreams and visions that are worth the support of others.
The ignorant route is one which essentially results from a failure to enquire and engage with the process of getting knowledge and understanding the difference between good knowledge, bad knowledge, and things in between. It's a different form of cultism which essentially involves "going with the flow." The bottom line is that people on this route fail to make choices since they don't know that they can.
The cultist believes certain choices should NOT be made. The ignoramus does not know that there are choices that can be made.
I'm sure there are other ways to the darkside. Naturally, one such way is the purposeful route-some actually crave the darkness over the light. For me that is weird. Things are clear by light, but in the darkness, you can trip over an not know why. Your next trip could be the fatal one, or not.
I am not saying that the light is perfect-it's just better than the light. In the light you can see danger and avoid it-in the darkside both good and bad alike are dangerous. The bad takes you down just as much as it would in the light, or even more. But when good smacks you in the face in the dark you will treat it as bad cos you can't see what it is.
I like the light.
posted by Al Wright | 10:43 am
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