Jack Duarte Instagram – Aren’t words a crazy thing? We cling to pronouncing them like totems that drive spirits away… or ornaments that attract, when their power isn’t in the mantra, rather in feeling the meaning invested in them. Thankful, full of… thank. And suddenly that word sounds so bizarre that it becomes meaningless. Thanks repeated by an echoing army, gleaming as social windows —posting senseless, semantically satiated: thanks. T’anks. If we are so thankful, why did we ever close our eyes to history? How can we be thankful and yet with a smile shut our eyes to what it means? To the history we come from…
Without meaning, words are semantically satiating carcasses: thanks muttering soulless, like roaring tanks in the street… cheering frenetically while they evaporate life with along its path. Words without invested meaning is empty noise that cloaks war. This world is intention. Meaning is everything.
Maybe if we take time to feel others, to read and listen instead of staying at the surface “image”, we may find the richness of diversity and the necessity in fighting against a norm that is soon to die. | Posted on 30/Jun/2022 01:38:00
