This is how I imagine the human consciousness to look like if you put it in a blender with the top missing.

and then it just explodes everywhere and the minute details, technicalities and lines that we’ve drawn to separate Ourselves from the Us from the Them from the Everything Else in The World Ever make ugly clinking noises and sink to the bottom of the blender or get impaled by the blades or fly out into the sky only to sail back down and into the ocean because that current is the closest to relevant that they are at this point

because we don’t have them holding us back anymore. Everything that we are and believe and are capable of is spread out in the sky to inspire us.

That’s why I love the Sky so much. When I look at it, I feel like I can do anything… as corny as that sounds. But it’s because the Sky is What and Who and Where and How it wants to be. There’s no way we can boss it around.

Because that’s what we do to ourselves: We boss ourselves around because we are bossed around by society. There are all these laws we created and unwritten rules we push that are inspired by the stereotypes we perpetuate that result in the norms that we settle for, instead of believing that we are more than all of that.

And the older and more jaded we get, the heavier our consciousness becomes with all the societal earwax that coats it with a stubborn hardness that forces us to resign to accepting things as Just The Way They Are until we’re deaf to The Way They Should Be.

At my college Orientation this week, we did a “Diversity Exercise.” We discussed different issues. One was a prompt we had to react to and then proceed to explain our reactions: “I would be okay with a racist group holding a rally on campus.”

As we went around the room, I heard people say “Well, I wouldn’t agree with the message at all, but that’s freedom of speech, you know. That’s Just The Way It Is, you know?”

And it got me thinking, as we took turns. And I shared my two cents, and the more I think about it, the more I (quite arrogantly) feel that my two cents is worth more than just two cents.

With all the rules we make up and conform to, our cognitive skills are dulled. Our reactions are dulled. That kick in the gut we get when we read that piece of literature, or pass a homeless person on the street, or flip past tragic events on the news— that is dulled too. Because these rules we make up and go along with are making our world smaller. It’s making the intangible colorful clouds of our consciousness clump together in a tiny clot that can’t reach past Ourselves.

We fall under this faux-security blanket of self righteousness that tells us “Well, it is alright to shove this down The World’s throat because I am allowed to. I can. I am right. I am right I am right I am right nah nah NAH NAH nah, I am right and nothing you say can change my mind… because freedom of speech that’s why.”

We don’t think about how we can be hurting others. We have become too self righteous to do that. Too socially acceptable to do that. Too civilized to do that. Too self centered to do that. Too close-minded to do that.

I am completely for freedom of speech. I love it. I relish it. I appreciate the hell out of it. But I think it deserves more respect than it gets. I guess what I’m trying to say is,

just because we CAN say these horrible things, why does that mean we should? I think when we get too caught up in the ethics that we made to keep civilization functioning, we end up backfiring in the Humanity department. As it applies to the aforementioned Racist Rally question, I think the reason society is still so full of groups that do things like that is because we’ve made rules that act as these cages that hold back our consciousness from reaching out and doing the most human thing one can do: To empathize. To think about our actions. Instead, we just feel justified.

“Let’s hold a racist rally, even though we will be hurting people.”

“Let’s be okay with said racist rally just because technically, it’s allowed.”

Technically? Well, technically, the soul is not technical. Listen to your soul, not the law. Are you really okay with this?

Being technical does nothing to further humanity. In fact, I think we’re ruining the humanity we have left. We forget that at the end of the day, we are all what we see in the sky.

And, man. Just look at it.

(photo reblogged from diamond-empire)

(Source: ghosts-teeth)