Would The Man In The Back Please Stand Up, or, Yo, What's Up?
Ever notice how there are always people in the back? At anything from, say, a rock concert to a seminar on how to chop wood, there is always a back row. Same thing with peace and equality. Everyone is not on the same level. In a world where everything is happy and peaceful, and everyone is equally important and given the same rights, there will always be a secret percent of the population that will be downtrodden and controlled. It's human nature: you stand taller if you're standing on someone else. Slavery and servitude will never be gone, but they can be pushed away for while. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep over the condition of the world? Well, stop it. What does the world care for a single person's tears. They are non existent. A better way to spend your time would be to try and change the world. But the inertia of Homo Sapiens is impressive. A better strategy for changing it would be walking along with it in a slight curve, rather than trying to make it go backwards. A slight curve will bring you where you want to be sooner or later. But back to the man in the back. He's sitting there, listening to the music and learning how to chop wood. He wants to be in the limelight, but, he's at the back. No chance for him to be in front. When suddenly he sees the rockstar/lumberjack gesture at him, and seems to hear him say "Hey, man in the back! Get up here!" He slowly trods up to the stage and climbs on. And he can't believe it when the rockerjack says to him, "So, what's up?"
4 comments:
rockerjack. ha. nice wordblend
Thanks. The rockerjack falls into the "half of what I say is meaningless" catagory.
It strikes me that I'm one of the people that often ends up in the back at shows, but that's because I like the quiet and the dark. If I wanted to I could step up to the front, but I rarely want to.
Getting the invite from the front is only half the battle. And not even a neccessary part at that. The necessary part is taking the invitation and stepping up to the front with it.
Well, I was writing it mostly about the people who either A. want to be in the front of the group but can't manage to get themselves there, and B. the people who are forced to be in the second class row, simply because the first class people don't want them by them. If you want to be in the back, I can understand that. It's just that that puts you out of the catagory of people I was writing about.
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