Crazy Horse said we live in the shadow of the real world and we really do. The coherency of our future depends upon us knowing who we are — and truly understanding who we are – because our relationship to reality and our relationship to power is based upon that understanding. Today we live in an industrial society and this technological perception of reality, this shadow world, presents a serious crisis: It is a reality where we don’t remember who we are, so therefore we don’t know who we are. We speak a language we don’t understand and because of this, we don’t know where we are. We are part of an evolutionary reality but part of the purpose of this technological civilization is to erase our memories and erase our identities.
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Activist/Poet John Trudell to Perform | November 11, 1994
“I need to record another album. I’m doing a little writing. But I write because I have to write.”
“It’s about being human beings in a technological world. We can’t avoid (technology), but we’ve allowed it to feed off us, eat our spirit. We can alter this. If we live in the illusion of reality, we become the illusion. Let’s try to be coherent and seek clarity. Through that we will understand ourselves.”
“It’s not about hope, it’s about hangin’ in there. It’s not about consistency, it’s about persistency.” ~
SOURCE: Seattle Times