Complacency
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Copyright 2005 Kerry McFarland / I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.
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Copyright 2005 Kerry McFarland / I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.
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You are being watched when you use your phone…your cell phone…browse the INTERNET…withdrawal money at any ATM use a credit card or drive down any street anywhere that government says “you are being protected.” Criminal’s terrorists and government officials they aren’t being watched they are under the radar above and below the eye of BIG Bro…think about it…fear is just propaganda and most people just roll over they want to feel that government and those in power have their best interests…oh yeah they do…sheep love to be herded and then sheared shorn and worn out with bleats of blah blah of noise…drop out and fight back…or just make sheep sounds of bleat bleat blah blah…”take my two bag fulls of woolly wool.”
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Copyright 2005 Kerry McFarland / I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.
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Copyright 2005 Kerry McFarland / I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.
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You are being watched when you use your phone…your cell phone…browse the INTERNET…withdrawal money at any ATM use a credit card or drive down any street anywhere that government says “you are being protected.” Criminal’s terrorists and government officials they aren’t being watched they are under the radar above and below the eye of BIG Bro…think about it…fear is just propaganda and most people just roll over they want to feel that government and those in power have their best interests…oh yeah they do…sheep love to be herded and then sheared shorn and worn out with bleats of blah blah of noise…drop out and fight back…or just make sheep sounds of bleat bleat blah blah…”take my two bag fulls of woolly wool.”
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Copyright 2005 Kerry McFarland / I started noticing that when the sun would go down, little flickers would light up everyone’s windows in their house. I’d be out walking (I lived in the desert and it was too hot to do so earlier), with all the beauty outside surrounding me, and silence; Then these houses…flickering. Every night, after 5, I’d see the same thing. I wouldn’t see people sitting outside enjoying the sunset. I wouldn’t see people gathered around a BBQ, I wouldn’t see people out walking with their lovers, enjoying one another. Shades drawn, little flickers. I felt the neglect. So much is going on outside, yet many people spend countless hours watching a little box. What about what’s going on right in their own backyard, their family, their city…their country. The complacency is frightening. That is what this series is about.
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Please Explain Complacency and Ignorance
by CrowmanicReally overloaded with my thoughts, feelings, and questions about the US of AAA’s current state of global modelling … so indulge me fo…
Really overloaded with my thoughts, feelings, and questions about the US of AAA’s current state of global modelling … so indulge me for a brief moment of outburst, once again. Antiwar vets attacked by police outside debate / October 17, 2008 WHILE BARACK Obama and John McCain were getting makeup touchups for their Wednesday night debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., police outside made sure that the voices of antiwar veterans wouldn’t be heard. Officers of the Nassau County Police Department reacted with reckless violence to a protest organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) outside the debate site. Among several people injured in the assault, former Army Sgt. Nick Morgan was knocked unconscious and his cheekbone broken when he was trampled by a police horse. “We were there to force the issue that the leaders of this nation are not listening to or are not caring about veterans,” said IVAW member Matthis Chiroux, who was among several veterans and activists arrested. “And they couldn’t have done a better job of proving us right. They stomped my friend Nick’s face into Jell-o. I put this on both candidates, on the major press and on the Nassau County police.” The IVAW had sent a request to the debate moderator that they be allowed to ask their own questions of the candidates at the Hofstra event, but this was ignored—and so the third and final presidential debate passed without an antiwar voice being represented. That night, IVAW organised a non-violent demonstration to request entry into the debate. Marching in uniform and in formation, IVAW members led several hundred activists to an intersection in front of the Hofstra campus gates—where they were confronted by an army of mounted police and riot cops. Ten IVAW members were arrested, apparently for no more than insisting on their right to be heard. Mounted police then pushed the crowd back onto the sidewalk, recklessly pulling their horses around and at times backing them into the crowd. The police continued to drive protesters back, pinning the crowd up against a fence. Riot cops reached past the IVAW members at the front of the crowd, grabbing protesters behind them and dragging them into the street. A mounted cop leapt with his horse onto the sidewalk and trampled protesters, including Morgan. Chiroux said the police took Morgan aside and bandaged him, but then placed him in a truck with other arrestees to go to processing and detention. “He was incoherent, he couldn’t even say his name,” Chiroux said. “He had blood running down his face. We kept telling the police he needed immediate medical attention. One officer said, with a smirk, ‘Get him to say it. He has to say it.’ I said, ‘He can’t even talk!’ The officer said, ‘Tough luck.’ Finally, we said, ‘Nick, you have to say I need to go to the hospital.’ We got him to say it, and they took him in.” - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - - CHIROUX SAID that while they were detained, he and his fellow IVAW members were verbally harassed by police. “They called us traitors, cowards, idiots,” he said. Three women IVAW members who had been arrested were handcuffed to a bench, and “the male officers kept coming closer to them, verbally sexually harassing them,” Chiroux said. “One kept holding up Marlisa’s ID to her face and saying, ‘Wow, you look like you came out of a Barbie magazine.’” Morgan was brought back from the hospital, still incoherent and in great pain. He was left chained to a bench for five hours without further medical attention, Chiroux said. IVAW members repeatedly asked officers for their names (they weren’t wearing badges) or to contact lawyers—they were refused on all counts. When most of the IVAW members were finally released at 2:30 a.m. (according to reports, one vet remained in custody as this report was written), they went, still in uniform, to a nearby diner—where the same group of cops who had detained them were eating. Chiroux went up to them and asked again for their names. One officer “got up in my face,” he said, “screaming and waving his finger at me and saying, ‘I’m gonna kick your ass if you keep asking that.’” The IVAW members say they wanted to ask Barak Obama if he would support soldiers who refuse to serve in Iraq, since in the past, he had called the Iraq war illegal. They also wanted to question John McCain about his votes to cut veterans benefits. “Neither of the candidates have shown real support for soldiers and veterans,” said Jason Lemieux, a former sergeant in the Marine Corps and a member of IVAW who served three tours in Iraq. “We came here to try and get serious questions answered-questions that we, as veterans of the Iraq war, have a right to ask-but instead we were arrested. We believe that the time has come to end this war and bring our troops home, and we will be pushing for that no matter what happens in this election.” IVAW members thanked activists for coming to support the march and for enduring the police violence. “For many of our members, this was their first protest,” said Hannah Fleury of the Campus Antiwar Network, which mobilized chapters from as far away as Boston for this protest. “Now that we see what we’re up against, we’re going to fight even harder on our campuses to end the war, and to support the veterans.” The New York Civil Liberties Union is asking for an immediate investigation into the use of horses at the demonstration. “It is shocking that someone who served his country would be treated so disgracefully by the Nassau County Police Department,” Tara Keenan-Thomson, director of the group’s Nassau County chapter, said in a press release. As Chiroux said, “Both candidates claim they support veterans. And this is how we got supported last night: by being pushed back, trampled and arrested. “We demonstrated to the country and the world that democracy is not dead in the United States—that the people in the U.S. still ultimately hold the power. They can try to force our voices to be silent, to block us out of the media, but we won’t let these people shut us down.” Having just read this item — and no, it wasn’t telecast/mentioned here in dear ol’ 51st State of the USA — I’m prompted to ask/say in my naivety and simplicity, why are Iraq war Vets are being treated like this, by their own, as suggested in this article, and there are many other cases and examples of similar accusation and claim, that I’ve been following over the years/months? Given that the Nation is actually running on massive debt and deception and Disneyland distractions for the past decades, how is it people of this Nation — a society held-up as a ideal and model for other “lesser” to follow and aspire to — have gotten so far into chaos, confusion, cancer, and depression, and yet continue to allow/permit such every day occurrences to slip under their radar of concern, outrage and challenge, en masse? I could ask further, and cite 100s of legitimate examples of environmental, ecological, humanistic, economical and such-like atrocities of negligence and exploitation occurring in the name of “the Land of the Free-trade (on our terms)” ... yet I know that kind of debate or dialogue will never be indulged nor encouraged, so I won’t waste your time or mine with further such query, question, example, and discussion, [let’s just ponder the item proffered here]. In closing, I raise this “political” stuff only because, here in dear ol’ Australia, “we” too follow closely, the beliefs, the rhetoric, the “model” and the bullshit, that is generated out of the spin-factory of the Elite leadership of the capitalistic matricks that is enamoured and idealised via the all things US of AAA, hence my ongoing reference to us being the 51st State. I am gravely concerned about the modelling of the “leading nation” and its “leaders” that perpetuate, permit, or turn a silent smile on such abuse and over-use of mostly misbegotten power… and more concerned, how 3 billion fellow beings or there-abouts can be so fooken subservient and servile, while all such behaviour goes unchecked… seriously and sincerely folks …. can any one step-up to the plate, and please explain why I don’t “get it”.
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A Christmas Without Meaning
by VanSnuGMy Christmas Song
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Features!
by Lisa G. PutmanThanks, so much to these groups for featuring my work. I’ve been away from the computer a lot lately and didn’t realize. Thank you to all…
Thanks, so much to these groups for featuring my work. I’ve been away from the computer a lot lately and didn’t realize. Thank you to all of you wonderful people who take the time to view and comment on my work. I really appreciate you and the support you give. You are so awesome! Thanks, again. Sold! featuring You Don’t Say? and Sunday Afternoon Video Montage Group featuring C O M P L A C E N C Y Funny Kritters featuring Baby Teeth
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going nowhere going nowhere
by montdragonoh how funny just too funny to be funny…they are everywhere thinking they are somewhere…thinking they are somewhere everywhere being …
the words are not what you are thinking…thinking are you…what words…the words are thinking silently powers on the sound “you are going nowhere going nowhere” oh how funny just too funny to be funny…(if you are an ideologue absolutist you are nowhere no matter which side of the sideshow you are on)...complacent faces faced facing nowhere…zero-sum
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Complacency.....
by CarismaI just got back last night and I already will start apologizing if I cannot get through to some of the work posted by you all great frien…
I just got back last night and I already will start apologizing if I cannot get through to some of the work posted by you all great friends!! I will get there ….please give me time :-D One thing that has been worrying me in the last few days is: Am I getting complacent in my work? have I reached a comfort zone where I feel I am doing well with my work posted? I feel that is lethal! / Having said that I now need to do something about it! And that is where I must ask the help of those of you that will be so generous as to give me their time and, when commenting on my work will also give me the “gory” details of what I could have done better…or where I had gone really wrong!! I have got a thick skin and very open ears, so please help me here and get me out of the complacency I may have reached! If I have improved in the past months I only owe it to you guys! help me to improve more! Love you all as always! XXXCarisma
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mixed media / ink airbrushed wood, 72rpm record,cardboard,
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capable of molding myself / into a wall of others / blending in with the vastness of “them” / rather than being “me” / a sea of complacency / when all i wish to be / is the one that stands out of that crowd / to celebrate COLOR on my own
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Mirrored Me
by Adrena87i miss you, love / although you stand here / in front of me / longing as i / for the freshness / of romance / from yesterday / the moments / the…
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9/11/2001--Then and Now
by jdworldlya day like any other day
eyewitness from a block away
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OBEDIENCY/COMPLACENCY IN THE NEW WORLD
by ariyahjosephThe trouble with loneliness Is that there are too many people around And plus feeling exaggerate what really is To not …
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The Path
by genuinedocthere is only one thing that fills my thoughts, it baffles me still…
The path we all walk, trip and fall down.
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Never Forget
by C.C. ArshagraTill justice is tried / And the world’s gavel cries
Dedicated to MLKJ / Inspired by the Photograph of the same title / Never Forget / By / Christopher Testi
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