If for only a moment, consider the absence of necessity. Consider the absence of coercion in choice, thought or action.
It isn't easy...no matter how hard you try.
Consider why we choose to do anything at all. Consider why we work. Why we fight. Why we care. Why we sing and dance and cry and smile and eat and drink.
Consider why we drive the car live in the house marry the girl that makes the baby and think the thoughts we think.
Consider how very abstract and unattainable the notion of absence really is. If for only a moment, consider the totality of confinement and the paradox of freedom. Are we shackled to the concept of freedom? Do the freedoms we seek ultimately bind us?
Consider Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the man, who finally breaks free from the chains of familiarity, climbs to freedom and becomes devastated by the bright lights of reality and clamors for his place along the sheltered stone walls of the cave.
Today's Jazz Hands contemplate Sunday's catch-22.
It isn't easy...no matter how hard you try.
Consider why we choose to do anything at all. Consider why we work. Why we fight. Why we care. Why we sing and dance and cry and smile and eat and drink.
Consider why we drive the car live in the house marry the girl that makes the baby and think the thoughts we think.
Consider how very abstract and unattainable the notion of absence really is. If for only a moment, consider the totality of confinement and the paradox of freedom. Are we shackled to the concept of freedom? Do the freedoms we seek ultimately bind us?
Consider Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the man, who finally breaks free from the chains of familiarity, climbs to freedom and becomes devastated by the bright lights of reality and clamors for his place along the sheltered stone walls of the cave.
Today's Jazz Hands contemplate Sunday's catch-22.
Day two-hundred and seventy-nine complete.
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