reruns

you didn't really want to hear what i think,

you just wanted to tell me i'm wrong

so crawl

back into your box

your deep dark hole

where you feel safe

where even the very idea

of freedom is banned

not allowed a voice

and cutting down trees

is called progress

because you can make

more boxes with them

so nobody is free, ever

and you can tell yourself

it's for their own good

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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the problem remains that dominant society is still telling all the stories from only their own perspective which comes from a place of status and privilege. we desperately need to listen to other voices telling their own stories. we need to not let dominant society take over every aspect of what songs we hear and how they are sung.

Plato said that Socrates said:

To put it briefly, those in charge must cling to education and see that it isn't corrupted without their noticing it, guarding it against everything. Above all, they must guard as carefully as they can against any innovation in music and poetry or in physical training that is counter to the established order.

- The Republic, Book III, 424b