May 29, 2006
Growing Pains (as felt on Rt. 50)
Religion, government, culture, business, and art are only romantic if they are the underdog. (source: written history)
From the Romans to Wal-mart; to become big in this world, you often must do bad things to small people. To stay big, you must sometimes do worse. It is always the minority who is loved; It is always the modest, the grassroots, the underground who is cheered. The dominant become decadent, deceitful, and ugly. There is an inverse correlation between integrity and dominance that i cannot find exception to.
And all things small work hard to become big.
To grow up in this world, i am afraid i will not make it. Not without sacrafice to creativity, to beauty, and truth.
I shall always struggle searching for balance between being true to myself, my work, and my beliefs - and finding success, or at the very least, sound sleep.
The answer, most certainly, will be somewhere in between.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to
your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because
that is according to my principles.
(Attributed by Harq al-Ada to one Louis Veuillot)
