The Past Year has Changed Us All
Yep, this guy is a grumpy old man!
As I'm preparing to post these two pieces of work today I'm listening (as I often do) to Max Richter (Dreams 3). Is there a better composer in the world today who can capture in such musical simplicity our current plight? Let's be honest, the past year and a half has been hell for many, if not most of us. No need to detail why unless you've come from Mars. Is there a way visually we can also express such ideas and make them real?
We live in a confused and abused world right now. There are far more questions than there are answers (and if you don't realise that then please wake up from your slumber). When politicians talk about the "new normal" and how everything has changed, you must start asking what they intend to use this current world crisis for. One thing we have seen over the past year is that the masks are off. (Think about it).
The true nature and perhaps horror of our modern faithless, untrusting and even unkind world (which we've conveniently hidden under apparent economic success - all borrowed money by the way!) is being exposed to the Light. The great divides have opened up again, whether it be between rich or poor nations, between racial identity groups being cleverly steered into inevitable conflict, the real threat of war being sounded in many news reports (you must have heard). The horror (there is no other word for it) goes on. And the greatest tragedy of all is that unless we open our hearts to feel each other's pain, and truly empathise, we will be hardened even more. And a world in which people's hearts can no longer feel the pain of Others is a truly lost world.
We need to dream again. Of what it really means to be human when all those trappings of "success" are stripped from us. Remember that magnificent speech Charlie Chaplin made in "The Great Dictator", we need that spirit once again. If we are to survive at all as a species.
Take 4 minutes to watch this speech. It's the greatest thing Charlie Chaplin ever did.
The Past Year has Changed Us All
Yep, this guy is a grumpy old man!
As I'm preparing to post these two pieces of work today I'm listening (as I often do) to Max Richter (Dreams 3). Is there a better composer in the world today who can capture in such musical simplicity our current plight? Let's be honest, the past year and a half has been hell for many, if not most of us. No need to detail why unless you've come from Mars. Is there a way visually we can also express such ideas and make them real?
We live in a confused and abused world right now. There are far more questions than there are answers (and if you don't realise that then please wake up from your slumber). When politicians talk about the "new normal" and how everything has changed, you must start asking what they intend to use this current world crisis for. One thing we have seen over the past year is that the masks are off. (Think about it).
The true nature and perhaps horror of our modern faithless, untrusting and even unkind world (which we've conveniently hidden under apparent economic success - all borrowed money by the way!) is being exposed to the Light. The great divides have opened up again, whether it be between rich or poor nations, between racial identity groups being cleverly steered into inevitable conflict, the real threat of war being sounded in many news reports (you must have heard). The horror (there is no other word for it) goes on. And the greatest tragedy of all is that unless we open our hearts to feel each other's pain, and truly empathise, we will be hardened even more. And a world in which people's hearts can no longer feel the pain of Others is a truly lost world.
We need to dream again. Of what it really means to be human when all those trappings of "success" are stripped from us. Remember that magnificent speech Charlie Chaplin made in "The Great Dictator", we need that spirit once again. If we are to survive at all as a species.
Take 4 minutes to watch this speech. It's the greatest thing Charlie Chaplin ever did.