"The Matrix"
Dear universe,
Excuse my judgement but Webster and Merriam are both assholes! I m reading the dictionary and in their defense, it was published in 2006, but something else became very clear when reading the two most used words
today.
Black; of Afro-American peoples or their culture. Technically, the absence of color, the opposite of white; Afro-American.
White; the color produced by reflection of all visible colors of the spectrum; the condition of being white; anything white or nearly white; the white part of something, lacking hue, as in new snow; relatively light in color, relatively unmarked or clean, harmless or innocuous.
Black and white are not actual colors, besides his biased opinion, that was not the issue for me. I did, however, remember believing that everything in school text books and dictionaries were true. As I kept reading all the negative terms like, Blacklisted and Blackmail that followed the word black, I had to remind myself that this was just somebody else’s perspective. As a child, we didn’t have the same advantage, their was no room for alternatives. What we read was facts, no matter how many forbidden questions I asked. The truth is not afraid of questions so I read all the wrong books and became a college drop out. I realized several things though, the church ripped out entire books from the bible with out our permission. Hitler was a hero to Germany and Christopher Columbus was not a man I wanted to celebrate. The artist, Da Vinci helped create airplanes and Thomas Edison didn’t come up with the light bulb alone. Eli Whitney was only the cotton gin because he was faster and Alexander Bell was not the only mind to contribute to the telephone. The same people responsible for altering the bible, also control our concept of time and Tesla found natural energy through crystals. It seems that knowledge is only power if it’s controlled. Our suppose morals and values have always been conveniently recognized for us. Somebody else’s outdated information is the fuel for our generational curses. We ve gotten so caught up in passing down the information, we forgot to ask, where is it coming from?! We ve forgotten that, we are the co-creators and collaboration of minds is the true power of knowledge. Yawning is contagious because it use to be how we said hello and sexual images was how we use to remember what we wanted to. If we are all victims to a program, isn’t it time for an upgraded version?! We re wasting time defending a system we were never allowed to create, while our future suffers the consequences. My 8yr old daughter only thinks she’ s pretty when her hair is straightened and the little white girl didn’t pick the black doll because she thought it was dirty. We may not be responsible for how it started but we are breeding this vicious cycle, when our ancestors already died for it. Without this programming, black history month wouldn’t be necessary, we would remember that they didn’t die for the right to be black but the right to be human. Jews wouldn’t be treated like penny pinchers and religion wouldnt cause such diversity. If we knew we had a choice, would we air “16 and pregnant” on tv?? Would Marijuana be illegal? Would we really be living through the lives of celebrities?! Would we really have let Trump in the white house?! If we re-program, our children will have the chance to explore the akashic records and freely love, who ever they want, and be who ever they want. What if this programming is our only limitation from creating more pyramids and living as long as methusala?
Yours truly,
Sharon Dunn
Journalistic Writing
You might enjoy reading the Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer.
Riverworld is an artificial “Super-Earth” environment where all humans (and pre-humans) are reconstructed as they die in ‘real life.’ The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods. Everyone receives the same basics, you arrive naked and hairless like everyone else. The underlying theme is quasi-religious.
Most of the resurrected awaken in a body equivalent to that of their 25-year-old selves, in perfect health and free of any previous genetic or acquired defects. All heart disease, tooth decay, and blindness are gone, and all amputated limbs are restored; whereas certain neurological impulses (for instance, curiosity or chemical addiction) remain intact. These bodies do not age, after a physical 25 years, and can regenerate nearly any non-fatal injury, including dismemberments and blindings. The new bodies are completely free of infection and seem resistant to it (albeit in the absence of hostile bacteria or viruses on the Riverworld). Initially hairless, the bodies grow cephalic hair and pubic hair at a normal rate. Men do not have foreskins or grow facial hair; whereas women have intact hymens. It is impossible to conceive children on Riverworld. Should an individual die, they are resurrected elsewhere along the banks of the river.
Because all the languages of mankind are represented in Riverworld, Esperanto spreads as a common tongue.
One of the themes of the series is the way historical characters change as a result of this cosmopolitan setting. Left to their own devices, the people recreate their Earthly societies.
They’re very interesting to read, and your entry today made me think of them.
Thank you so much definitely reading it
very insightful. I enjoyed reading it.