Mario Savio

[turtledude23]

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." - Mario Savio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJKbDz4EZio

When I hear this speech I'm filled with a passion and fire to change the society I live in.

This speech is also in an awesome Linkin Park song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEzx4JPeAc

[native]

One of my favorite quotes!

[Izzy]

Greetings turtledude23
That was fantastic and with such fire. I had not seen that before, I found that passion agian after reading Law of One. But since I was a small child when this film was made and remember most of it from my teens 7-8 years later and a couple years after woodstock I always wanted to be like the hippies of the 60's. They inspired me to be different than the establishment, to go the way of free people, free thinkers and most of all love everyone. By the time I came out of high school though I started wondering were did the hippies go? What was happening? Was it me? and I followed in there footsteps back into sts. Into the world of of greed and materialism. And along the way I ran into some that had that passion and fire, and they tried to teach me the way but I bucked for the side of greed and sts and didnt understand why. Untill Ra reopened my eyes and heart. I relize now the hippies just got lost and havent found there way back yet. Maybe they need to see what they were back then, and read something besides the wall srtreet journal. That passion that is in that film is in us all I only wish we all could find it agian.The machine is killing us and most just dont see it, they only see greed and me me me.
Thanks for posting this as all need to see that passion for love of all, and what needs to be right agian.

May we rejoice in the light and love of the One Creator for we can not live in the dark

[Brittany]

I LOOOOOVE that LP song! It's my favorite song on the album!

[turtledude23]

Greetings turtledude23
That was fantastic and with such fire. I had not seen that before, I found that passion agian after reading Law of One. But since I was a small child when this film was made and remember most of it from my teens 7-8 years later and a couple years after woodstock I always wanted to be like the hippies of the 60's. They inspired me to be different than the establishment, to go the way of free people, free thinkers and most of all love everyone. By the time I came out of high school though I started wondering were did the hippies go? What was happening? Was it me? and I followed in there footsteps back into sts. Into the world of of greed and materialism. And along the way I ran into some that had that passion and fire, and they tried to teach me the way but I bucked for the side of greed and sts and didnt understand why. Untill Ra reopened my eyes and heart. I relize now the hippies just got lost and havent found there way back yet. Maybe they need to see what they were back then, and read something besides the wall srtreet journal. That passion that is in that film is in us all I only wish we all could find it agian.The machine is killing us and most just dont see it, they only see greed and me me me.
Thanks for posting this as all need to see that passion for love of all, and what needs to be right agian.

May we rejoice in the light and love of the One Creator for we can not live in the dark

I also had a deep admiration for hippies and wondered why they disappeared. If you look around you today at things like the prominence of yoga and meditation, the increase of belief in new age ideas, the rise of vegetarianism, the zetigeist movement and venus project, etc. I think you'll see the overtones of the 60's.

I think the hippies flourished because of their comfortable lives and the inspiration they drew from seeing the civil rights movement, but once they had to enter the working world the idealism died. its a shame, the whole world could be living like the hippies in the 60's if we wanted to, it would be like Ra's 3D experience on Venus. I think we will have a global 60's utopia one day after harvest, it will be gradual, and I hope to play an active role in catalyzing that.

I LOOOOOVE that LP song! It's my favorite song on the album!

It's one of my favourite songs on the album, if I had a radio show I think I'd open everytime with that song and remind the listeners that they have the power to change the society/world they live in. That album overall seems very STO, except for Blackout.

[Brittany]

I have noticed LP has become progressively more positive in their lyrics, while still maintaining the edginess and unique sound that made them popular. An encouraging sign.

The lyrics from Iridescent have gotten me through many a tough time: "Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure's all you've known...remember all the sadness and frustration, and let it go. Let it go..."

I don't think Blackout is a negative song...it just sounds like someone expressing how it made them feel when their trust was betrayed by someone else. There are a lot of sorrowful and even angry songs that can still cause very positive emotions to rise up within people...well, in me, anyway.

I also found the lyrics to Robot Boy very interesting...to me, they almost seem to me to be portraying the world through the eyes of an STS person. "You think there's not enough love and no one to give it to." "You think compassion is a flaw that you will never know." "One day the weight of the world will give you the strength to go." It seems rather sad...I admit I'm curious as to what it feels like to truly be STS...in my mind it would be horribly lonely, full of anger and pain. Do they actually enjoy being that way? It's such a different mindset, I can scarcely comprehend it.

[turtledude23]

I was a huge LP fan years ago, but I didn't like Minutes to Midnight at all and I thought theyd never be good again.

I also found the lyrics to Robot Boy very interesting...to me, they almost seem to me to be portraying the world through the eyes of an STS person. "You think there's not enough love and no one to give it to." "You think compassion is a flaw that you will never know." "One day the weight of the world will give you the strength to go." It seems rather sad...I admit I'm curious as to what it feels like to truly be STS...in my mind it would be horribly lonely, full of anger and pain. Do they actually enjoy being that way? It's such a different mindset, I can scarcely comprehend it.

I think Robot Boy is just describing the average person in north america, not someone who's STS, that song certainly descirbes me to some extent, and probably whoever wrote it.

As for STS I think the loneliness and constant pain is supposed to motivate them to take all they can, whether that actually makes them happy or not, we'll never know, because if we were to ask someone on that path they could lie, or could be in denial of the un-sustainability of their path.