Enlighten Me

Remember Arundhati Roy, the architect who wrote The God of Small Things? This video is her response to the Palestinian land occupation by Israelis and the likes.

I can't believe that Palestinians had suffered for decades to retain a stretch of land they call Home. I know, I know, Israeli-Palestinian rock throwing missile launching antiques is so frequent, we're becoming numb to the news of dying youths and exploding busses. We're human, repetitions bore us to death. Even deaths.

Pity. Pity results inquiry. It ends with the letter Why. Inquiry results answers. Answers leads to images, propaganda and news. Images, propaganda and news will make us, once again, to pity. A cycle of unbearable conscience, with neither a beginning nor an end. THAT is our state of mind, humanity fades like a washed newspaper.

Enlighten me, how can we break this static cycle?

3 comments:

mutalib saifuddin said...

salam.

firstly, found your blog through a link in Serendipity's.

kudos on your writing about Palestinians.

You know, such this kind of events have been on for already decades, but why almost nobody (i mean, governments or UN or sombody) did nothing to stop that? It's a kind of monotonous watching such footage on the TV. Annoyed. We, adolescents (that i am) now almost can't do anything to overcome it, it seems, but the only thing: empathy and to offer prayers for them. Really. There's nothing else we could do. (Is it?)

What says you?

afiq said...

haikal,

ok,... the term wahabi is new to me. The extermist wahabis are no more different than oppurtunist priests who used their affliation with god to gain wealth. They don't give a damn if their dividing followers as long as their pockets are full of MUNNNNY!

Mutalib,

We can actually, by preparing ourselves to become powerful through the attainment of knowledge..

Long term lah~

sEaN = Se + An said...

HomE iS wHeRe The HeARt iS bRo-Go FiGuRe!