CAPITALIZING MURDER,
I am baffled with mans need to capitalize on the act of murder especially when it comes to recording artists. I understand that history dictates that man has always had a fascination for death and murder by the mere fact that, throngs that come out to witness, hangings, beheadings, torture, public brawls, murder scenes.
I cannot lie I was facinated at one point in my life too so I am no different.
However, today with the advent of the internet we now have places to find satiation in this medium.
None of this ever made me feel the need to kill another...after a while it started to repulse me...and in turn it started to hurt me.
We all understand that death is a part of life, Death by accident, disease, unknown causes, or death by righting an injustice, natural and freak of nature causes....but nothing explains the death caused by those who feel they have the power to take life away for inconsequential reasons....for dumb insane reasons such as:
( walking on a particular side of a street, or killing someone just to be accepted by a gang, or to be thought of as a tough guy or girl, because someone was looked at wrong, death by being wrong color, the wrong race, the wrong sexual orinetation, practicing the wrong religion, or just because they had a bad day..or because someone, anyone must pay for something done to us in our past.....the list of exuces can go on to infitnity)
I am saddended by our need to capitalize on murder and glorify it as a braggin right. I ask...Why?
Does anything challenge their moral conscience???
Is anything Monumental gained by it?
Does it go away after you harm someone?
Are you made better?
Have they fulfilled Your one quest in life by doing it?
The answer is always NO!!!
In fact...most acts of violence continue to haunt the perpetrator, for LIFE.
It hurts me everytime I see a rapper or any artist displaying their power or artist image pointing the barrel of a gun at anyone as they grimace in defiance. I again ask...is this the best way to be remembered? Is this the only thing you came on earth to do? Of all the wonderful things you could leave an imprint doing...one chooses this?? Why?
Everyone came here to experience life but to have someone take another out for inconsequential reasons is insane to me.
When we can excorcise the cancer of: Fear, Intoloreance, Immaturity, Prejudice, Rage, Hate, Isolation, Inequailty, close mindedness, Self Absorption....from our society. We can become one step closer to being in harmony with our higher selves. ....and in turn with one another.
As child I was often shy and picked on by people who perceived this as a weakness I just wanted to be left alone I was happy in my own unobstructed world.
Silently....I had wished that all those who are fueled by rage, negativism and the rest of these useless emotions....could all go on an island where there are no laws , where people who think alike can congregate and live by thier own rules (or lack of).
I wished them to Go to a place where they can Shoot for the sake of shooting kill for the need for killing and be admired for these negative actions from their peers.
I doubt they would be happy with mirror images of themselves.
If such a place existed....You will also notice a world bereft of anything useful. For: People Hellbent on killing never build anything except thier own egos. They would not know the value of working in harmony with other hard workers to build a world made from the hands of people from all walks of life.
They would only value the money and that material things yet if they had to create the materialism they lusted for.......few people would be alive to make it cause too many lives would be taken out of greed. It would be a world of empty angry people shooting at any and everything and then when nothing is left shootin at thier own shadows.
They would not no know hardship of farming cause they are so used to taking, or the beauty of industy, textiles, trading everything that entails the use and creation of the creature comforts they rely on to make thier lives easier.......
So when we think of murdering someone who is not a part of the voilent culture we take away another, doctor, Farmer, construction worker, father, mother, friend, Teacher, grocer someone who contributes to your way of life in some round about way ..we are all connected....
Dying is easy....killing can be easier...but learning to accept diversity, co=existance, to bargain with your wits instead of your fists, to make changes for positive action rather than murder, is far more of a greater challenge to our growth as a human being than the finality of erasing someone because we have not evolved enough to handle the task of killing someone with words.....at least no one has to loose their life over something so senseless as a mindless murder...capitalized.....for the sake of braggin Rights.
Words are thoe most powerful weapons of all for they are the ammunition that causes the killer to kill. Without them..there would simply be no cause to kill soneone just for the sake of killing because there would be no words to provoke the emotion that causes the RAGE.
Words can cut deeper than knives and their sting can affect people long after they have been spoken, ....wounds heal (even though some my leave us crippled) but when you can cripple with words for life.....
But they wont loose physical life over it.
Remember:
Life is lined with a few razor blades for us all...we all have to get a cut a few times before we can learn to handle them properly...before we can know their power...and in turn we must learn how to make a razor blade work for you instead of against you.
Namaste
Zhana