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A Thousand Suns
Jul. 15th, 2013 11:24 pmMom and I revisited "A Thousand Suns" by Linkin Park today. It was even more appropriate than I realized. I really recommend everyone to listen to it. It starts with J. Robert Oppenheimer:
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.
Mario Savio
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight
Because my conscience leaves me no other choice
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war
This way of settling differences is not just
This business of burning human beings with napalm
Of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane
Of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields
Physically handicapped and psychologically deranged
Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go, let it go.
Iridescent by Linkin Park
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
Catalyst by Linkin Park
When you feel you're alone, cut off from this cruel world
Your instinct's telling you to run
Listen to your heart, those angel voices
They'll sing to you, they'll be your guide back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
It keeps us kind
When you've suffered enough, and your spirit is breaking
You're growing desperate from the fight
Remember you're loved, and you always will be
This melody will bring you right back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
The Messenger by Linkin Park
My mom mentioned how when she was young and conservative, people would fight for everything. At the time, she thought they were stupid but now she sees how right they were, how necessary and how much we need this now especially as we lose all those rights they fought and died for when she was young.
I have to admit that part of me was glad that Stephen Colbert's mother wasn't alive to see Scalia undo everything she and her husband had helped to do in the first place.
I fear that there will be a revolution in my lifetime because the more that we fight and even the playing field against ALEC and their masters/servants, the more they clamp down harder and harder. I had hoped that Obama's elections would prevent this but it only seems to have enraged them to force their views on us whether we like it or not. This is not how a functional democracy is run.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.
Mario Savio
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight
Because my conscience leaves me no other choice
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war
This way of settling differences is not just
This business of burning human beings with napalm
Of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane
Of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields
Physically handicapped and psychologically deranged
Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go, let it go.
Iridescent by Linkin Park
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
Catalyst by Linkin Park
When you feel you're alone, cut off from this cruel world
Your instinct's telling you to run
Listen to your heart, those angel voices
They'll sing to you, they'll be your guide back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
It keeps us kind
When you've suffered enough, and your spirit is breaking
You're growing desperate from the fight
Remember you're loved, and you always will be
This melody will bring you right back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
The Messenger by Linkin Park
My mom mentioned how when she was young and conservative, people would fight for everything. At the time, she thought they were stupid but now she sees how right they were, how necessary and how much we need this now especially as we lose all those rights they fought and died for when she was young.
I have to admit that part of me was glad that Stephen Colbert's mother wasn't alive to see Scalia undo everything she and her husband had helped to do in the first place.
I fear that there will be a revolution in my lifetime because the more that we fight and even the playing field against ALEC and their masters/servants, the more they clamp down harder and harder. I had hoped that Obama's elections would prevent this but it only seems to have enraged them to force their views on us whether we like it or not. This is not how a functional democracy is run.
