Send in the Clowns

Send in the clowns- the high dollar clowns, send in the multi-million dollar banking clowns.
We don't deal well with reality, so we'll gladly pay for high-priced shiny distractions.
Beautiful clowns with their cosmetic faces, angelic voices, and heavenly bodies plastered on the silver screen, crammed into our iPods, or cast upon the stages where we pay to watch them dance for us.
Athletic clowns with Adonis bodies that bound across a court or field, worshipped by the young and old alike while paid a king's ransom to play a child's game.
Ooh, how we feel like kings and queens, when we grovel at the feet of our godly jesters- who live more luxurious lives than the soldiers, the teachers, the butchers, the bakers, and building makers.
Is reality so horrific that it's come to this? That the false idols of today, those models of success our children hold in such high esteem are none other than those paid handsomely to distract them from that which is real? Those who set the curve of the beauty standard with lives under knives, and Photoshop touchups on their magazine covers? Is reality so horrendous that we send in the clowns every day just to pull us away and pretend that it isn't real? Just to buy us some time between birth and death when we don't have to think about that problematic world that exists beyond the stages, and arenas inside our simple-headed minds?
I'm just as guilty, my friends. I too send in the clowns, but they keep me sane- they're easy on the eyes and soft on the brain. So I'm left here hoping every day the wealthy world-owners in some small way have the best interest of the people in mind. But do we peasants deserve that when we keep ourselves blind? This self-subterfuge where we take the blue pill, close our eyes, and wish the world away is not an action that merits sympathy from those in control. It's just so damn hard for weak to wrestle power from the strong and so much easier to send in the clowns. But listen, friends, with all your might- something being easy doesn't make it right.

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[DavidRandallCurtis]

Whoa... this is like... poetry.... and better than the stuff I do on my channel and my channel is nothing but poetry! :P -- color me impressed and subbed!

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@DavidRandallCurtis Thank you- welcome to the party. There's a poetry playlist on the channel page.

[TheHispanicAviator]

Hello GI, are you of hispanic descent? Excellent video! Your oetry mixed with ambient trance is a euphoric experience, haha!

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@TheHispanicAviator Thanks. Why does my ethnicity matter?

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@purv989 What do you consider to qualify someone as a poet? Do they have to go to Robert Frost University & get a degree in poetry with a minor in the specific devices that appeal to you individually? I suppose I should never write poems since you don't think I'm good at it and if you didn't enjoy it, that's all that matters the other 500+ people who enjoyed this piece should never have heard it because you think you can decide who real poets are and haven't deemed me worthy of the title. Right.

[jmvt3]

We should have scientists and philosophers ect... as the worshiped and dreamed of

[jmvt3]

This was the topic of my philosophy club

[shabido1]

I agree and concur. Now what should we do?

Awesome poem!

There seem to be a a good amount of people who really grasp this reality of modern socialization, and it's nature of preventing us to see our own humanity. I think most of them/us end up falling back on that same weakness we start to recognize. We still subconsciously feel so strongly that we need the system as is, we never really change our lives to 'try' change it. It is not comforting, but for that reason I wish we would unite.

[rriverstone1]

You're a cranky bastard, at times, huh? Great writing! I'm with you!!!

[SuperZuescannon]

Just.. Yes, exactly. I feel the same way. I love it haha

[carny426]

@GrapplingIgnorance It doesn't, you are but a man who speaks of perceptual thuths and experiences. Applying reason and logic to come to a conclusion free of all the bullshit that is spoon fed to our perception and experience. The only thing you can do is swollow it down or spit it back in their faces. The perceptual blue and red pill. It is evident and obvious we've choosen a very similar path. Love the videos man, it's always good to listen to a like minded individual.

[Redpilldown]

We took the blue pill, only some of us are still awaken.........now and then

[TheHispanicAviator]

@GrapplingIgnorance It dosen't matter at all, in your full color videos, you seem tanish XD. Nothing to offend, just pure curiosity.