foggy spring day- follow up about Miley and Sinead

I am not always one to take the temperature of the toxic bullshit that makes up the majority of our media outlets but since I am also familiar with progressive radio stations I am hoping that we can clear up at least one of the recent incidents between two people who are known for what many consider deviant behavior. Others may not even register anything out of the ordinary. In fact, in pop culture and to a more subtle extent in subcultures the norm is to paint people into a corner when they have seemingly spoken out of turn as Sinead did by writing an open letter.

My main problem with what happened is that we are using totally archaic images and language when it comes to female artists, nudity, youth fixation and all of that.  We hear pimp, whore and prostitute over and over, when in fact it would serve us all well to abandon those terms in favor of language that really suits the situation, and we could use that language in such a way that we make it a solid practice to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, until there are less who are constantly disturbed and more people who act less out of fear and pain and more out of intelligence and keen observation.

We have never had such a world and I do not expect it to happen instantly but the more people who see how much more that they would get out of living in such a world, the closer we will incrementally step toward such a world, externally and of course it will at some point be able to match up more naturally with our inner world.

For all the consciousness that has supposedly been raised over the past decades, it seems that the covert nature of these ills have not gone away, they have become insidious. Rather than rant against it, I choose to offer up suggestions of how to change it if you are interested in actually getting to songs, art and dialogue that can keep your interest and inspire you. I, for one, am more than ready for that to happen on a Massive scale!!

1. Stop instantly comparing one artist to another before you have a good sense of their intended message or messages

2. Stop focusing so much on their appearance, and I suggest this because if the celebrity or politician's public is not obsessed with their image and how their image is changing, they will be forced to have more of a reason to be in the public eye, and more and more those will be good reasons and then we will wean off of worshiping celebrities in general.

3. Perhaps doing these things will lead to more of a social conscience for some of them and an ability to take a stand publically and courageously on pressing matters in this world we all share! What a breath of fresh air that would be for a huge part of the American public and for people who live abroad who feel that we are incredibly wasteful and arrogant. Just like a stage of diabetes that is not full blown yet, we can reverse this damaging trend.