The Rolling Stones has a song, You can’t always get what you want. It simply tells us that no matter how much we yearn it we can’t always get it. The angst and the pain we have to go through, it is real. It shows us what we are not who we are. It should help us to puncture the illusion we have about who we are supposed to be. It should wake up the dreams we are in like Shakespeare said, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep....
忽忽三年，红尘永隔；盈盈一水，青鸟难通，结想为梦，引领成劳。 异史氏曰：“花面逢迎，世情如鬼。嗜痂之癖，举世一辙。‘小惭小好，大惭大好’。若公然带须眉以游都市，其不骇而走者盖几希矣！彼陵阳痴子，将抱连城玉向何处哭也？呜呼！显荣富贵，当于蜃楼海市中求之耳！”
“Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.” — C.G. Jung
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Divided and conquered. It is not just in America, it is quite everywhere?! Imagine that the whiteness is created by the rich for the poor, in America. Then the Redness is created by the power for the powerless, in China. Tim Wise Part 3 the history of whiteness