Which...?
by colinbaker62 (Member) - published: June 28, 2008
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Which are you
part of - the laughing multitude,
or the screaming few?

Colin Baker June 08

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Colin

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by colinbaker62

colin's question
Both.
I've been part of both.
As we all have.
We laugh to rest our vocal chords from screaming.
As we advance in age, we scream less and laugh more.
It is rare that one individual, singled out from a multitude, will make much of a difference, whether he/she laughs or screams.
Mother Teresa is remembered as neither a laugher nor a screamer...

Thanks for the opportunity to think.

Lucie

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: June 29, 2008 )

Thanks Lucie
Thanks very much Lucie....From one point of view, the idea that we scream less as we age is very true. I can vouch for that for sure. I think your reference to Mother Teresa is very interesting also, in the sense that she perhaps could be described as 'one of the laughing multitude' depending of course, on just how 'the laughing multitude' is interpreted.

Colin

( Posted by: colinbaker62 [Member] On: June 29, 2008 )

screaming multitude
Guilty on both counts. The former when I walk by homeless and ignore their pleas for whatever coin I can spare. The latter when I am stuck on the side of the road with flat tire and no one will stop to offer assistance.

Nice poem. Equal parts quilt and elation.

( Posted by: desvelado [Member] On: July 1, 2008 )

Laughing, screaming and dialectics..
Thank you 'FR' for your thoughtful comments...

I think in all this, I have been somewhat guilty of representing the matter in a metaphysical either / or form. Viewed from a dialectal point of view, it is of course perfectly possible for people to be both 'laughers' and 'screamers' to varying degrees. Whichever tendency socially dominates, (and for whatever concrete, historical reasons), this I believe, will largely be a reflection of the circumstances in which the people in question (and by and large, uncritically in an historically scientific sense) live out their lives.

I believe that the more people are inclined to metaphorically laugh in today's world, the more a kind of conservative passivity will continue to permeate and dominate everything we humans currently do. Conversely, the more metaphorical screamers there are, (assuming that such screamers base their objections upon a broad understanding of historical necessity), the greater humankind's chances of concretely making for itself, a truly human(e) society at some point in the future, and on a global scale.

Colin

( Posted by: colinbaker62 [Member] On: July 1, 2008 )

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