Anyway, without further adieu, Sojourner's blog:
"Sojourner's Prattle of the Day
I don’t know what it is of late…seems everything sends me into a quandary of philosophical meditations and analysis.
Human beings fascinate me, an interesting species to observe (spoken as though I were not one of them). Fashion – the means by which man has chosen to adorn himself down through the ages – is quite interesting, and in many instances no doubt, speaks volumes about the cultures from which they sprang.
I’ve always been fascinated with history and the continued evolvement of man. In many ways, man’s consciousness and spiritual awareness has grown much over the hundreds of years of his dominion in this mortal world. But when you really think about it, has it really grown that much? Aren’t people, in a general sense, still very much the same as they were in the beginning of their recorded history? Though cultures and circumstances change from area to area and from generation to generation, it seems the root of man’s responses to the world around him and to others, generally speaking, is really quite the same today as it was in every past generation.
There is the mass population that blindly follows the dictates of their society, in which religion has always played a major role. Most are of lower or average mental capacity and are prone to always choose the path of least resistance – a path which demands little from the individual and one that tends to keep such in an state which makes them relatively easy to control, whether by religion or politics or more often, some perverse combination of the two. There is always a smaller portion of the population that rebels and resists the norm of their day and culture in destructive manners – rebelling and yet still driven by the very things they think they are rebelling against. These are generally people of a higher than average mental capacity, though their decisions may make one question that assumption. Then there is an even smaller portion of the population, again, of generally higher than average mental capacity, that seems continuously bent upon swimming against the current in search for a higher road, a better way, a higher consciousness, a better world – not so much in a material sense as in a spiritual sense. They always constitute a minority in numbers. They are most always thought of with disdain by the general population…ignored at best…often persecuted in many cultures even today, at worst. Yet somehow, the social influence of these small clusters of misfits always seem to contribute the most to such small steps in the progression of man’s consciousness.
Still, the masses seem content to live out their lives beneath the glass ceiling. On rare occasions, they may look up, clearly aware that there is something far bigger and greater than what they know, on the other side of that ceiling, they just don’t seem to be able to muster the effort to discover it. To remain small in a world of endless possibilities and opportunities seems far easier. Others see through the ceiling, and though not content to live beneath it, are not bold enough to break through it, so they destroy themselves and everything around them in despair of the weakness they are content to remain subject to. And then again, the smallest in numbers, those who see what is beyond the ceiling, and are not content until they have found a way beyond it.
It seems man is continuously on a quest to improve the world by fixing the wrongs he sees in everyone else – through control and manipulation. Will mankind, as whole, ever realize that the only way he can ever change the wrongs in this world, is by addressing the error within OURSELVES that CREATED them?
I have absolutely NO idea how a contemplation of the history of fashion led me down that road. "
