Crucifixtion - Part Deux

Kris Kristofferson wrote "Jesus Was A Capricorn" in 1972 and it is still relevant today.

This pisses me off.

Actually the song came out on an album of the same name in 1972. I don't know when he wrote it. I wasn't there. Although I wish to hell I was. Maybe I could have used my refreshing creativity to punch up the lyrics a bit.

Maybe not.

"Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes, long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends. Reckon they'd just nail him up if he come down again.

"Egg Heads cousin Red Neck's cussin' hippies for their hair. Others laugh at straights who laugh at freaks who laugh at squares. Some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the clan. Most of us hate anything that we don't understand."

                                                        And the chorus

"Cos everybody's got to have somebody to look down on. Who they can feel better than at anytime they please. Someone doin' something dirty, decent folks can frown on. If you can't find nobody else, than help yourself to me."

I hope those words made you flinch. They may not apply to you personally but they do apply to this diseased country and to this crumbling world.

Guys like Kristofferson wrote lyrics like that to expose our hypocrisies and weaknesses with hope towards evolving towards tolerance and maybe even.....................love.

Poets, novelists, essayists, film makers, song writers, philosophers, all these gifted and sensitive minds trying to alert us to the things that are destroying us.

Instead of getting the message, we accelerate our travel towards doom.

The level of hatred in this country and the world, the coldness, the viciousness, the selfishness, is suffocating us as a race.

My generation, maybe, feels it a little more because there was a bright, shining light of hope in the sixties. A light that was quickly extinguished.

It's almost as if the powers that be thought "Wow, that was a close one, we better make damn sure it can never happen again. Let's pit them all against each other at renewed intensity."

The chance of ever learning from lyrics like Kristofferson's is infinitesimal. We are dumbing ourselves down at an accelerating rate. There are fewer open minds and a lot more closed hearts.

We are racing towards destruction and we don't even know it because we are distracted by all our toys and devices.

What the hell happened here?