Finally got the guts to watch Montage Of Heck a film about Kurt Cobain. In it the story is told about how his family abandoned him as a teenager and so he was sort of homeless and displaced in a small town. It can be easy to be shunned by a community or a family under current social conditions. How!? and why? In the deeper past communities existed where a child could go to any house in the village and be welcomed and taken care of as if it were their own family. What cultural shift occured for this to happen.
If you stop believing in the faith your community church could abandon you and your family. If there is anti social behaviour in your social circle and you speak out against it, you could be shunned. If you don't believe in the status quo, certain people may stop talking to you. If you look or act different people may try to avoid you. There is much hazing rituals, competition and bullying in our culture. A society that seems to be more based on the image and the object. It's the language coupled with stereotyped images that can be that mirage of reality. Fear of the other. Fear based politics have run rampant on the media machine. It's been that way a long time.
Being exiled is a fate worse than death. In the past people who were exiled weren't allowed to be fed, talked to or sheltered. Imagine it's the same today but just more subliminal. Just as painful. We must make a major change in the attitude of society and bring back that vital connection we all need. If a person doesn't feel loved, is shunned by society , cast out of their family over a misunderstanding they will feel homeless. Our institutions and entertainment industries can be faceless and indifferent to much of these natural needs. Instead it seems to suck money from other peoples pain with empty distractions and token gestures. Makes me think governments and communities could be smaller, more self sufficient and interconnected. Instead of a fragmented global monetary based society.
Found an article recently while thinking about this. It's entitled - The opposite of addiction is connection. It talks about how there are many forms of addiction we use in current society that we use to replace actual human connection. It's a pretty good read.
http://upliftconnect.com/opposite-addiction-connection/
I feel homeless and homesick for the fellowship of man. Face to face with fate, everyone belongs to the human race. Face to face, we're the human race, we got to get back the memory trace. Lyric from Memory Trace - http://massesect.aurovine.com/track/memory-trace
When you are different, even being say a sensitive artist, you may find you don't have many friends. I think that can be o.k. I think it's better to stay true and honour your own person and experience that to let yourself be called a name by someone who doesn't know you or a culture you were merely born into. When you do have connection make it count.
