“It is a state of mind and not a look…”
Firstly “Fara Dreadlocks” does not have anything to do with this text apart from having lovely locks, running shop in Dakar, being online and the fact that I really like the colours in the photo, especially the green.
For the record I am not a Rastafarian, but I have known and do know some who are. Personally? I believe in hard science. Deity and all that it entails is simply not for me. I believe in science and nothing else.
I have an album named “The Radical Monotheist” and it is a really good album. However, my album would be called: “The Radical Positivist”. I truly believe that science alone will/could save us.
That said, I do try hard to respect all belief systems as long as the system in question does not harm the general population (humanity). It is quite disturbing to watch the level of ignorance that exists in the World today and the fact [sic!] that it seems to increase rather that the opposite.
The current economic system* is no less a “belief system” than any other conjured by man, it does not in my view fill the minimum requirements of being even slightly scientific. It never was and it never will be. Why? It is in its very definition based on human emotions or at best intuitions. Emotions and intuitions? Does that sound scientific to you or anybody? What exactly happened 2008? Apart from history repeating itself?
No (If you happen to know please explain it to me in layman’s terms.)? It is because it is the opposite of rational thinking.
Look around? Does it seem reasonable or rational to you? The thing you are seeing right now? That is unguided human behaviour.
* So, economics and history are “non-interesting” subjects… and we ended up in this mess because of what actually? Someone will have to clean up this mess in the end.
“Do you know what they call us?”
Image: https://www.facebook.com/faradreadlocks/, Dakar, Senegal.