We’ve allowed insane psychopaths to dictate what we can read, what we can see, and what we can say and therefore what we can think.
All of our politicians are guilty of allowing this to occur and persist.
We have no heroes, no-one is coming to save us, and we cannot change the system.
Video References:
Nietzsche, in his exploration of tragedy and the human condition, often used the figure of Dionysus as a symbol of life's raw, chaotic, and affirmative power, contrasting it with the Apollonian drive for order and reason…
“Much will have been gained for aesthetics once we have succeeded in apprehending directly — rather than merely ascertaining — that art owes its continuous evolution to the Apollinian-Dionysian duality, even as the propagation of the species depends on the duality of the sexes, their constant conflicts and periodic acts of reconciliation. I have borrowed my adjectives from the Greeks, who developed their mystical doctrines of art through plausible embodiments, not through purely conceptual means. …Apollinian arts and the nonvisual art of music inspired by Dionysus. The two creative tendencies developed alongside one another, usually in fierce opposition, each by its taunts forcing the other to more energetic production,...” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Iron John," or "Iron Hans" in German, originates from the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale, tale number 136, which is about a wild man and a prince, and is a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood. Robert Bly's book "Iron John: A Book About Men" popularized the story, sparking the mythopoetic men's movement…
Musical references
Rollins Band, “Grip”1
When those walls close in around you
When all those about you doubt you
When the world can live without you
Get a grip and keep it
You see how hard they'll shove you
Hate your guts and tell you they love you
Get a grip right now
Rollins Band, “What do you do”2
When the lies that they told and the price that you paid—Force you to see the mistake that you made
When they shake your hand and stab your back—When frustration paints your four walls black
When they pick you up and let you fall—When you find their something is nothing at all
When ends miss ends and the endlessness sends you—Down to the bottom of the drain in pain—When you're pushed to the edge and can't maintain
[Chorus] It's a mess—Don't get messed up
Yeah, I see 'em—Yeah, I deal with 'em
This ain't no blues song—Yeah, deal with it!
Oh, yeah, that's what you do
Yet another censorship event:
https://www.songlyrics.com/rollins-band/grip-lyrics/
https://genius.com/Rollins-band-what-do-you-do-lyrics
