It makes me wonder sometimes why are we hurting ourselves so badly trying to create a piece of artwork that lasts for days or hours. We spend our whole lives hurting ourselves and each other for all kinds of reasons but you have to check your sanity when it comes to playing on live tracks. What posseses young kids and adults alike to cross that line and risk the blue flame of that 20,000 volt shock.Life of youths of today are a struggle with poor upbringings and abuse in all four corners of the globe it's not a suprise that kids want to kill themselves to get a little respect. We have to look at what the new generation has brought us with the world in kaos and no one really ruling the lands anymore. Governments come and go but who is left to pick up the pieces of our broken civilisation. It makes you think what can really happen next. What is round the corner and how will we as a human race cope. From atom bombs to famine it just makes me feel that someone, somewhere is really trying to get rid of us. Have we spent to long on this planet and not learnt a thing to realise we are slowly killing ourselves. What will make us wake up one day and notice we have nothing left to fight over or kill.
Just think of your existence for a second and imagine how insignificant you really are. If you were not here tommorow who would really care. Immediate friends and family would mourn you but soon forget when the gas bill needs to be payed or Leeds are playing at home. How does your life really make a difference to the world when so much is going on...
Every person on this planet wants to belong, to feel a part of something that makes a difference. Some battle to become famous, some shun the attention, but how many of us want to have a say in what happens in our time. People struggle everyday to make ends meet but they still want to be proud of what their existence means to them. Everyone wants that dignity and to be able to hold their heads high when they have reached rock bottom. Has part of our nature to become destructive pushed the boundries in which we communicate. In times of struggle we strike out instead of express our true feelings with thought. Have we truly lost our ability to think about our actions and not use offence as a defence. Our society as we know it today reflects violence as entertainment, something to prize over. The art of intelect and conversation has long vanished with the creation of game machines and petty crime. Oh such fun is to be had in stealing cars and killing innocent bystanders that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Life revolves around all the new technology that mankind creates but who is really in control of it all. Who has the power to pull the plug if it all gets to much for the innocent victims of consumerism.
The generation of today see through many guises of greed and waste and push the limits in which their elders panic buy to satisfy their yurning to provide. When man first walked this earth all he had was his skill and cunning to eat and keep warm. He created fire and made clothes to keep alive but what did our early descendants do for pleasure. They drew to chronicle their existence and represent the changes that they witnessed over the centuries. The first thing man thought of was ART. Our desire to develop and show others creation of life has been passed through thousands of years. Its our nature, its in our blood to show people around us what we see through our eyes. Everybody creates a different image in their own mind of how they view the world. Imagination is the greatest window you can ever look out of and so many try to show their own piece of mind.
Authority has put a block on the skill of imagination now with rules and regulations. Society may understand it, even like it but governments rule the land and if it doesn't comply with the norm then its outlawed. Censorship comes in all shapes and sizes and many battle for the right to express themselves but how many win. For thousands of years art has chronicled the struggle of mankind until today when it now seems illegal to push your opinions onto the unsuspecting public.
What ever canvas we choose to chronicle our time on this earth surely we should have the freedom to do so. There are so many different ways in which everday folk learn knowledge and the understanding what is right and what is wrong, so why class us as vandals. You want to have your say,right. You want to be seen by the masses and show them how you feel. What makes you tick and what makes you hurt is not too little to ask of normal folk. I guess our desire to gain power in knowing will always overcome. Remember knowledge is power and the true warriors are those who never shout, never strike and never need to face the enemy........