Political activism scares me. No, let me correct that, politically charged conversations scare me. Actually, sorry, more accurately, information scares me. Thats why I could never be a mail man (insert Newman from Seinfeld: "when you control the mail, you control... information!").
For realzies, I can appreciate the value of sparking change and the need for people to speak up and be the change they want to see in the world. I can also understand that I am part of the problem (insert Janis from Mean Girls: "There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff and those who see evil stuff being done and don't try to stop it"). I am also a part of the problem in that it is very apparent that all I do is sit around and watch movies all day.
But actually, I am cool to not know lots of stuff about lots of stuff (pretty sure thats Tracey Jordan, 30 Rock). Maybe its the creative writer part of me. For instance, I don't want to know the scientific reason why the sun appears to set faster while its right above the horizon in the evening. Do you think John Keats wanted to know about that shit? No, he just wanted to write beautiful lines of prose that would make people cry for decades to come.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to make anyone cry because of the beauty of my verse (although I have definitely made people cry with my quick wit). But if I know too many things I won't have the same narrative texture (ew, see what I mean, I'm using words like texture now, I already know too much) that I am developing into "my style". Everybody has their own thing (kid on the public service announcement of my childhood: "My thing's sound effects; here's a T-rex *T-rex noise*"), my thing is sitting in my cave and writing/ pretending to write while I watch things on a screen. I value the hard work that people put in to changing the community, and if any of those people are reading this, hopefully they value the hard work that I am putting into this blog.
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