“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
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Dear Mr. Sloppy,
You are an Uncle now. That's a beautiful thing. I think you now understand the words to "We are the World." After all "there's a choice we're making. We're saving our own lives, it's true we make a better day--just you and I." Such wonderful and powerful lyrics dispell the notions that the actions of such mad men, who I have just read about, can over take the hearts and minds of the pure. You see what's at stake the world--after all you are the one posting it-- heralding in the future chaos as if you are the true Oracle of Sloppy.
You must take the next step to ensure a safe world for your nephew. Perhaps your words are more accurate than you know when you whispered to your nephew "you and I are going to cause a lot of trouble." But know that if the lot of "trouble" you are prepared to make is directed by the actions of your heart--then "the world will be a better place for you and I."
Now go out and be somebody....Save the world.....
Thanks. I'll try my best.
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