From The Mind Of Critic – August 26th, 2016

From the mind of critic: “If we’re constantly asking what’s the matter with Kansas, are we also asking what’s the matter with ourselves? If we keep asking what’s wrong with “them”, that they don’t hold our values, speak our language or even pay taxes, are we asking what’s wrong with us? Do we think we’re the gold standard, and everybody on the planet fights and struggles to be like us, because we’re the perfect example of a human being? Or do we think we’re the best, because all “others” are trying to take our stuff? When something goes wrong, we usually wanna place blame as fast as possible. So we can either fix a problem, or explain it away. Sometimes we’re the ones to blame, but because we don’t wanna take responsibility for our actions or stage in life, we blame the “other”, that person with the different skin color, who speaks that weird language from that country we can’t pronounce. Sometimes these “other” people are from here, speak our language, but don’t happen to live their lives like we think they should. If we get over our fear of self-examination, we’ll see that most of the time we project onto others what we’re lacking. Kansas has problems from time to time sure, but if we consciously work to fix our own issues, we’ll stop projecting figments of our imagination unto others”