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capri0mniSo:
First, I watched a video of literary critique of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and spent far too long writing this comment in reply:
My reading is that Victor's crime is not his over-reaching Rationalist ambition, but his failure to be Romantic enough. Pursuing knowledge IS noble. But asking questions and then rejecting the answers you don't like is a betrayal of both the endeavor and the discovery. Life is big and messy -- and if that terrifies you so much that your only response is to run away (or tho tear life to shreds), then you're going to have to keep running to the ends of the Earth.
I was born with cerebral palsy, btw. I've felt the discomfort, disgust, and pity some people have spat at me for daring to be "Different at them..." The people carrying torches and pitchforks scare me a whole lot more than the ones they tell me are "monsters."
And on the modern science front: This past January, I heard a report that scientists have figured out that many cases of C.P. arise when babies are born at least 8 weeks premature, because the myelin sheaths are still forming in the cerebrum around then (ftr, I was 9 weeks premie)... and they are close to a cure, using genetics . . . at least, in mice. That report made my stomach hurt. ...I don't want my messy, different experience of being Human to be erased from the future of the Human Experience.
If that makes me a monster, then okay. I speak for the monsters: "Booga! Booga!"
I came back from that to find this new video from Signmark-- couldn't be more fitting:
The singing is English, but the sign is Not ASL (BSL? or suomalainen viittomakieli? Folks familiar with either... I'm curious) Anyway... another one that will be echoing in my head today...
Signmark - Silent Shout (2014) - Fighting
1st
Fighting with the picture, can't fit inside the frame
Shadowboxing the fear that calls me by my name
Feeling, believing that I am something wrong
That I don't belong
They're pointing their fingers,
and painting me gray
I know I'm not worthless
I don't care what they say
I pray for direction
I'm tired of feeling alone
Chorus:
I'm fighting, I'm fighting fear
I'm fighting, I fight the fear
Be brave -- don't fall down
Be free -- do it now!
2nd
Fighting the picture, until it leaks
There's an ocean of colors flowing inside of me
So tired of drowning in my own power
that I can't see
A blink of your eye, and you're awake
Manifest what you radiate
Take my hand, this moment should be shared
Chorus x2
3rd
For the ones who are here, you came just in time
For the ones who don't care, open up your mind
For the ones who ain't sure, seek and you'll find
Keep in mind:
You deserve to shine
Chorus x2
First, I watched a video of literary critique of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and spent far too long writing this comment in reply:
My reading is that Victor's crime is not his over-reaching Rationalist ambition, but his failure to be Romantic enough. Pursuing knowledge IS noble. But asking questions and then rejecting the answers you don't like is a betrayal of both the endeavor and the discovery. Life is big and messy -- and if that terrifies you so much that your only response is to run away (or tho tear life to shreds), then you're going to have to keep running to the ends of the Earth.
I was born with cerebral palsy, btw. I've felt the discomfort, disgust, and pity some people have spat at me for daring to be "Different at them..." The people carrying torches and pitchforks scare me a whole lot more than the ones they tell me are "monsters."
And on the modern science front: This past January, I heard a report that scientists have figured out that many cases of C.P. arise when babies are born at least 8 weeks premature, because the myelin sheaths are still forming in the cerebrum around then (ftr, I was 9 weeks premie)... and they are close to a cure, using genetics . . . at least, in mice. That report made my stomach hurt. ...I don't want my messy, different experience of being Human to be erased from the future of the Human Experience.
If that makes me a monster, then okay. I speak for the monsters: "Booga! Booga!"
I came back from that to find this new video from Signmark-- couldn't be more fitting:
The singing is English, but the sign is Not ASL (BSL? or suomalainen viittomakieli? Folks familiar with either... I'm curious) Anyway... another one that will be echoing in my head today...
Signmark - Silent Shout (2014) - Fighting
1st
Fighting with the picture, can't fit inside the frame
Shadowboxing the fear that calls me by my name
Feeling, believing that I am something wrong
That I don't belong
They're pointing their fingers,
and painting me gray
I know I'm not worthless
I don't care what they say
I pray for direction
I'm tired of feeling alone
Chorus:
I'm fighting, I'm fighting fear
I'm fighting, I fight the fear
Be brave -- don't fall down
Be free -- do it now!
2nd
Fighting the picture, until it leaks
There's an ocean of colors flowing inside of me
So tired of drowning in my own power
that I can't see
A blink of your eye, and you're awake
Manifest what you radiate
Take my hand, this moment should be shared
Chorus x2
3rd
For the ones who are here, you came just in time
For the ones who don't care, open up your mind
For the ones who ain't sure, seek and you'll find
Keep in mind:
You deserve to shine
Chorus x2
