Sunday 9 October 2011

Rage, rage against the


So, I'm doing a recording session gig this weekend, for The Heavy . (Who are _great_ and one of my favourite groups to work for of all time. But that's a topic for another post.) And one of the songs we're working on has a line that goes "Cause if you're going to fight, find something worth fighting for." (Or something like that. I was busy playing my viola and adjusting my headphones, so, that's probably not word-perfect.

But close enough.

Which is related to:

Last night I had some lovely friends over to get beaten at Settlers of Catan (Cs & Ks edition) and after the game, we got into talking, talking about these THINGS that, as we get older, creep over us more and more. These _causes_. For my friend last night it was parenting education. For me it is Empowerment of Women. Maybe yours is Urban Cycling, or Preservation of Wild Space etc etc. These causes inflame us, the very mention of them makes us passionate and full-of-fire-and-opinion-and-hope, for, we're sure, they can change the world.

If only we knew how to let them.

And that's the thing. We all have them, these things. And Want To Do Something About Them. But. How? I know. Look for small things you can do within your own community, blah, blah. But I don't want to. I want to save the world. Right now. You too? So how do we do that?

(I guess, for my part, to start, there's this: )

5 comments:

tori said...

Nice post. I usually try to resist supporting women-y discussions on account of not wanting to ghetto-ize myself (or women) - but I think there are some important issues raised in that clip. Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

Alberta now has a woman premier. I think it is a far bigger deal that she is educated (first with a Uni degree since 1992), but first woman ain't bad either...

Emma said...

I hear you re: ghettoization, Tori, I suppose what I really take issue with is societally enforced gender "norms", I know a lot of guys who are seriously messed up from it too...

Chris, for real?! The FIRST one in pretty much 10 years?! For real?! Oh man. Well. Good, I guess.

Ione said...

Em, 2011-1992=19 years. Wow
, big change

Peter said...

My cause is the plight of oppressed statisticians in math departments! Just writing that made me angry!! Rise up and retire early!!!