{"id":184,"date":"2019-09-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/141.148.246.190\/index.php\/single-post\/the-same-damn-thing\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:52:21","slug":"the-same-damn-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/25\/the-same-damn-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Same Damn Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all hope<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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for that connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We all hope<\/span><\/p>\n

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to be left alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We all hope<\/span><\/p>\n

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that someone will notice,<\/span><\/p>\n

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But the only way they’ll notice,<\/span><\/p>\n

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is if we notice them first,<\/span><\/p>\n

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because. <\/span><\/p>\n

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They’re waiting for <\/span><\/p>\n

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the same damn thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Social animals<\/span><\/p>\n

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crave social connection,<\/span><\/p>\n

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yet we’ve been trained: <\/span><\/p>\n

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a manifestation of our society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A society of patriarchy, industrialism,<\/span><\/p>\n

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economy, selfishness, racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We pretend we’re in it alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We hate it, yet we don’t end it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We love it, yet we pretend it isn’t us. <\/span><\/p>\n

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We all hope,<\/span><\/p>\n

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for that big moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We all hope,<\/span><\/p>\n

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for it to come to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We all hope,<\/span><\/p>\n

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to be the destruction. <\/span><\/p>\n

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We all think that we are blameless.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The world asks for our extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A short poem on the state of our world, the lack of human connection, and our inevitable betrayal of our world due to the selfishness trained into our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,177,138,36,174,71,139,176],"series":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-climate-change","tag-extinction","tag-future","tag-humanity","tag-patriarchy","tag-poetry","tag-society","tag-world"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-mike-chai-842339.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"https:\/\/music.amazon.ca\/podcasts\/09c34bbc-b359-49af-a286-31830ed5634c\/short-stories","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/short-stories\/id1621456328","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbGV4aXN2ZWVuZW5kYWFsLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qvc2hvcnQtc3Rvcmllcw","label":"Google Play","class":"google_play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbGV4aXN2ZWVuZW5kYWFsLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qvc2hvcnQtc3Rvcmllcw","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0lcQCRs52MfYlKs35lVX4K","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/short-stories\/id1621456328","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

The Same Damn Thing<\/a><\/blockquote>