I've just recently become aware of the meaning behind the phrase "blinded by the light." I think the idea behind this phrase represents a significant problem with the way people approach the world and I can pinpoint the areas where I have turned a blind eye. The idea is whenever someone sustains a lifestyle change or undergoes a mindful conversion, as a result of some negative experience, they completely cut ties with their old way of living. They feel enlightened having discovered that their old idea of truth turned out to be untrue. It's a traumatic experience, and part of the force that compels the conversion mutates the enlightened into an extremist for the other end of the spectrum. Their previous idea of truth didn't work for them, and the only way to relate their experience is to universalize it to others. They believe this truth cannot work for anyone else. This happens all the time with religion, drugs, politics, love, or anything that involves a great deal of emotion.
Personally, I know my digestive system has been blinded by the light of Chipotle. During school I ate there a lot because that is the only place anyone wanted to go, but now I am home and can drive myself to nourish on Taco Bell's ninety nine cent menu. My last four or five meals at TBell have produced painful, splattery bowels. I wish I could enjoy my favorite samples from each of these competing Mexican cuisines, but my body isn't giving me that choice.
I think the solution to this problem is to become self aware of some of your most partial actions, judgments, and observations. A better alternative might be to approach the outside world as a forum of opportunity that invites you to make fluid decisions. Do your best to take the prejudice-free action most fitting for every particular situation. I am talking to myself.
In music news, the lead singer of my favorite band, Radiohead, Thom Yorke has a solo album coming out next month. I really love the hook on the title track: The Eraser.
sorry to hear about your bowels.
i'm diggin' that thom yorke song.
Posted by: bryant at June 5, 2006 7:38 PMi pirated the album last week. its glorious. i can get it for you. i'm gonna buy it when it comes out anyway. "Black Swan" is amazing.
Posted by: tim maides at June 7, 2006 8:28 PMMy underground train runs from Mile End to Ealing
From Brixton to Boundsgreen
My spitting's dirty my beats are clean
So smoke weed and be lean
I step out my yard through the streets
In the dead heat all I got's my spirit and my beats
I play fair don't cheat
And keep the gangsters sweet
Turn the page, don't rip it out at yer age
Move to the next stage
Lock the rage inside the cage,
Like SK it's New Day
But don't take the shortcut through the subway
It's pay or play, these geezers walk the gangway
Deep seated urban decay, deep seated urban decay,
Rip down posters alight
From last weeks big Garage night
And the next Tyson fight
I cook em at 90 degrees farenheit
And don't copy the copyright
I got em in my sites, blinding with the lights
Taken to dizzy new heights
Blinding with the lights, blinding with the lights
Dizzy new heights
I bet this kid 20 bucks on Dallas.