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I realize that all this time, all the times I described people as ignorant, what I really meant was that they were unaware. It had not occured to me previously that there was a difference. As I felt it in my mind that day, I learned that describing a person as ignorant attaches to that person an air of incompassion.

I believe the word 'unaware' more accurately describes the state of mind many people around us live in today. And this is because I truly do believe that people have good intentions. Unfortunately, sometimes when we're too hard on ourselves, we also become critical of others. (This is what I struggle with most.) A person who is unaware does not know what he or she does not know.

I think this is the down side to telecommunications and the oligopolistc media, and why people take food and shelter for granted. You press a button on your remote and instantly in front of you is a person. Without technology you would have to travel miles across this Earth, maybe hundreds of thousands of miles in order to meet, to lay your eyes on this other human being. But, instead, so simply, so instantly this person is here in front of you.

Thinking as he talks

A fetus of a thought bursts out of his windpipe,
exploding on me the ideas he is against
Always fighting against, never fighting for

He tells me I'm a working extension of our utilitarian unit.
With each passing gripe I hear fade into the air dies the possibility to create,
to write history for what could be the better

And that is how life turned into this:
us using our criticism to pretend that we were participating.

Neverending drone

Turned on is not only the tv but the stereo from which fast, hard music softly drones. The clinking and clanging and sound of rushing water pepper the air with more decibels as a roommate does the dirty work. The sustaining ping of a steel string echoes above all this. I sit still searching for my attention span amidst an ocean of gibberish, a sea of undying buzzzzzzzzzzzz...