Waves of thought

November 22, 2008 - 3:31pm by dwyman

Movements are waves, liberal, conservative, radical, christian, anything and everything that can be followed acted out and believed in is a wave. A wave with surfers. If you don't get on a wave, you will get wrecked by the currents, the wave you ride becomes who you are, you can spend time on different waves and come back eventually or stay on one wave, laughing, sometimes shouting, at the idiots on the wrong waves, as they yell and taunt you in return. All of you laugh at those under the waves, not wanting to surf, but wanting just to watch American idol, without their voices heard, they will surely drown, that's what you say.

They are either buried in the bliss of apathy or frightened by the power of the waves, too scared to surface.

There are men on the beach, mostly white men you notice, mostly white old men. And you may not know it, but these old men pull the strings that make the winds of the waves, all while watching from a secure distance.

I sit in the middle of this right now, not knowing if I should ride the waves, or past that, which wave to ride, so I'm getting pretty roughed up by the waves, and the sharp edges of surfboards on them.

Lately something has changed, lately something isn't quite right in the historical ocean. The currents are changing, and the old men are laughing, they can afford to laugh, they are on solid ground, no laws, rules, or dangers of the sea apply to them, we will never agree on what wave to send to them, it will never have enough people to be big enough, some even deny that there are men on the beach, or that there even is a beach, but there is a beach, and there are the men.

I ready myself for what I know is coming, these waves are merely ripples compared to the future wave, the tsunami of freedom. This wave will bother the men on the beach, so they will deny that it is coming, but it is coming, as sure as anything is ever sure, it is coming.

Listen, maybe you will be able to hear it coming.

Comments

SOAL wrote on November 30, 2008 - 9:35pm:

i like this passage a lot, i can relate to it.. i think the good thing about writing "vaguely" is that many people can have their own interpretations of what you have written. For me, this was very specific because I have written about "the men on the beach" and "the waves" just using different metaphors.. anyways, i think this was very nicely stated vague or not

Philosoraptor wrote on November 27, 2008 - 2:34pm:

There was a great question my history teacher posed to me on the first day of class. He asked me when, if ever, do people have the right to revolution.

I thought about it for a while and obvious answers popped up, like genocide o corruption but then I thought that essentially people always have the right to revolt.

The question is whether or not they actually can...

I've also heard that tsunami day is a national holiday in Utopia. ;)

I still like the note though Dwyman, keep it up.

dwyman wrote on November 27, 2008 - 2:37pm:

how bout you wirte one buddy? Do you know how difficult if is to write something like that?

Philosoraptor wrote on November 27, 2008 - 8:03pm:

It's tough to think of an appropriate metaphor, but once you have one it's pretty easy to roll with it as long as it's in your head. That's why the note makes more sense after you get the initial metaphor.

 Writing with metaphor is always great when describing thought.

 I've written poems about conformity and about rampant, disillusioned, anti-rationalism I figure I could probably turn those into more essay style type things...

dwyman wrote on November 27, 2008 - 8:10pm:

I'd love to see some thought prosess put into writing from you. It would be a good edition to the website.

Mr.S wrote on November 23, 2008 - 11:38pm:

Be specific, I'm not getting a feel for what direction you are going here.

dwyman wrote on November 24, 2008 - 10:41am:

I don't get what you don't understand

Mr.S wrote on November 24, 2008 - 11:19am:

It isn't that I do not understand, it's that you said nothing specific. What you said could mean any number of things.

dwyman wrote on November 24, 2008 - 11:25am:

So? Maybe I'm being intenionally vague.

Mr.S wrote on November 24, 2008 - 11:28am:

So be specific, whats so hard about that?

dwyman wrote on November 25, 2008 - 1:01am:

Why don't you think about it? Everything I'm trying to say has already been written down. If you have to ask what it's about at this point, there's really no point in you knowing what I mean.

Mr.S wrote on November 25, 2008 - 1:59pm:

If only your list of words actually said something, unfortunately it says nothing. Taking a page from the Obama play book I see.

dwyman wrote on November 25, 2008 - 5:36pm:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh Mr.S, what would we do without you?

Mr.S wrote on November 23, 2008 - 8:32pm:

What is your idea of a "tsunami of freedom"?

dwyman wrote on November 23, 2008 - 8:37pm:

a reorginization of the power structures, led by a rapid rise in understanding.

I'm talking about a revolution, hopefully non-violent