Dissident

[matrixmann]

I sit
and I will be rewarded.

I shut up
and I will be praised.

I write,
but I stop.

Is this
going to drive them away?

Will they
even listen to what I say?

I am
afraid.

I ain't
no fighter on the ground.

Shamefully reminded
that a pencil is not a gun.

What is it
that I can do?

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should combat what you hate through Buddhism or studying Eastern thought. Gandhi took down the British Imperialist and Martin Luther King Jr took down the White Southern Racists that way.

The benefit is that you never have to openly engage violently against your enemies, you are always flanking them and trying to get better and better ground. Or just better ground that the bad ground you have. In the short term, it always works and has the benefit of its practitioner having to become violent and deal with legal authorities.

In the long term, maybe it is too passive to actually cause change, however it passes it off by saying people go through reincarnations towards becoming more and more Buddha like. So, it implies that maybe thousands of years from now everyone, or most people, will be enlightened but now nearly no one is ready for that.

[matrixmann]

Without stating my position on this, I already have one. But some things you don't say on the internet.