How much longer can we continue to function as the divide between our two halves grows exponentially? Finger pointing. Name calling. Ostracizing. Claiming we all want to be more united, but judging each other so harshly in the process that we become hypocrites in words and actions.

Hypocrites and fools.

I shake my head at the lot of us.

Because your words confuse and hurt me and my first instinct is to hurt you back. I want to find the stats that refute the ones you threw in my face. I want to argue my beliefs and values that run counter to yours. I want to pull you from your pedestal, from your pulpit, from your soap box and leave you confused and hurting on the ground.

But…

Then what?

Would that solve anything?

No.

So, when you post your political rants, your blues are wingnuts diatribes, your reds are morons ventings, I won’t be liking, I won’t be commenting. I’m not going to add my foolish voice to yours. It’s loud enough in here already.

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And you, dear kingdomites?

Do you like reading political posts? Do you like jumping into the fray and arguing your side of the debate? Or, have you grown tired of the fighting too?

You can go ahead and come down from your soap box.

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Daily Prompt: Art Appreciation

by michelle w. on April 30, 2013

Do you need to agree with an artist’s lifestyle or politics to appreciate their art? To spend money on it?

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Does this seem like a couple of simple “yes” or “no” questions to anyone else? Alas, I digress…

I tend to tune out the talking heads when they get up on their soap boxes and start preaching to the masses and that includes my favorite artists too. I don’t have to agree with you, with your politics, with your beliefs on religion, with your judgements and behaviors to still understand and appreciate that you are truly talented at what you do when you step down from your soap box and return to being an entertainer. I have before and will continue to support artists I don’t agree with 100% of the time.

And, honestly, I can’t even tell you who all I’m referring to because for the most part I don’t pay attention to these people when they remove themselves from the environment I like them in.

I don’t even have a problem with you setting aside your talent for awhile to step on that soap box in the first place. We are all allowed to voice our opinions, that’s one of those things that makes this place great. Say what you will, people will hear you, and then they can decide on their own if they like what you had on offer or not.

However, if I paid money to buy a ticket to attend some sort of art thing – a concert for example – and the artist sets aside his entertainer role while on stage to preach at me about this or that it really irks me. I didn’t pay to see you get on your soap box. I didn’t drive however long to then wait in long lines full of the rowdy stinking masses to hear (0r see) anything other than who you are as an entertainer. Get back to the music, or the show, or the art, or…

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