I have my finger on the pulse
of the world
i take humanity’s
temperature
i look at society
as a whole
at least a try!
and i think this is something
we all should do
as best as we can
and we should be quite critical in that
we should take a quite hard, stern, long look
we should not just eat all the candies we are served
all the junk and the gourmet stuff
we should be critical indeed
about our culture
cultural critique is not a bad word
the cultural critic is not a grumpy old intellectual guy
who has something negative to say
about everything and any thing
he lays his eyes on
no, he/she is not a bitter commentary of the ways things go
she or he serves as the necessary corrective of a society
that just marches onwards
blindly
the philosophers of ancient Greece
they fulfilled this function perfectly i guess
and maybe even Sartre and Camus in Paris
and brainy girls like Susan Sontag
maybe, what do i know : )
I keep my finger on the pulse
of society anyway
cause i don’t like to fly blind
because i like to know where i am going
and why i am going with whom
now more than ever i want to be clear
which company i choose
which society i join
which world
i want
what u think?