No. 330: Are we thinking like Voice...?

I am watching the German film Hannah Arendt:

the story of the famous philosopher

and her coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

At a turning point in the story Hannah writes:

"Das Böse wird gemeinhin als etwas Dämonisches betrachtet,

Eichmann aber kann man beim besten Willen

keine teuflisch-dämonische Tiefe abgewinnen,

er war nur unfähig zu denken."

"Evil is commonly regarded as something demonic, 

but in the case of Eichmann

one could find no such trace of satanic 'greatness',

he was only incapable of thinking."

(my emphasis)

Another title for this post could be:

Awareness of the Great Voice Holocaust.

For with the deepest respect

for my friends, for myself, and for all of humanity
with our ties to all holocausts past and present
which steal Our Earthly Bodies

there is another
certainly related
yet far more deeply hidden
international concentration camp of the soul
which steals Voices.

It is disingenuous, surreptitious.
It creeps up on us in the dark:
It whispers "Go into hiding..."
it yells "SHUT UP"
says "don't even start..."

It draws us into an alternate reality
of definitions
pointing fingers
loneliness
and stares

An unchallenged reality which sneaks into collective thought

telling us some are worth more than others

and mine...?

It must not

be worthy of Life, be worthy of BE-ing.

BE/A/WARE 

where Voices are silenced in the soul

so also They Are 

in the body.

WE ARE THE ANTIDOTE TO THIS MADNESS.

And so, even in the Land of the Free

I stand, a Mother Bear, on the top of the nearest mountain and scream

Every Moment let me BE like Voice!

Let me think like Voice!

Let me LOVE like Voice!

EVEN, and ESPECIALLY, for those who have been silenced.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is Opera Organically.