Finding the Waypoint - The Question of Negativity

I think it would be fair to say and it could be easily observed, that we tend to romanticize and prop up negativity and conflict in our youth. This permeates every aspect of our chosen media going forward, from music to film and electronic gaming. Simply put, without conflict, there is little to no interest.

As gamers and people who simply want to be entertained, we certainly, don’t want to claim any correlation and be denied cool and fun shit simply because some are more sensitive to violence than others but more and more, as a generation, we are seeing increased levels of self-destructive behavior, self-harm, and individuals demonstrating sociopathic levels of self-absorption and selfishness. Adopting aggressive tendencies, through our attitudes, art and expression, rife with default pessimism and dogmatic, nihilistic views, has sadly become a default viewpoint for many.

As our perspectives come into focus from playing out various life experiences, for good or ill, we arrive at the realization that negativity is not a question of optimism or pessimism. It is simply a fact of our existence. The benchmark of our collective failures, regrets, and disappointments. We check in with it daily and restlessly slumber with it at night.

Often, we encounter abject obstructionists and naysayers in positions of authority, who lord themselves over others, mismanaging and presenting piss poor opportunities to be the hard and fast rule, rather than the exception.

The notion of adversity from all sides is a constant irrefutable fact of living in a reliably cumbersome, graceless world. The gravity of our situation. Gravity, itself.

To project a small bit of illumination and color against its weight and form, to speak truly in the face of hostility, to show kindness for kindness' sake in this otherwise seemingly senseless ordeal we call life, is the only significant rebellion we may manifest, the only genuine anomaly that registers in the irrefutable bleakness of it all.

Rebel.

One,

Mettā Pathos

Major Lazer - 'Get Free' feat. Amber (of Dirty Projectors) (Listen)