An Open Letter To Saul
“Dear History,
Blitz! It’s my turn now. You can have your mounds of flesh, leather boots, cannons and sabers, nooses and guillotines, warships and fighter planes, trails of tears and blood, genocides, dungeons and dragons, ghost stories and fairy tales..........”–Saul Williams
Dear Saul,
I am afraid that I must stand in utter disagreement with you on this issue.
I believe the current movement, while marketing itself as optimistic, has thus far been nothing more than a major catalyst for unnecessary negativity. Thus, it is no different from the others.
When I look at history, I see the living Word of God wrapped in flesh and offered up so that you and I could enter into the promise. I see a Buddha free from suffering because he finally learned to remove “I” from the equation. I see the intellectual anomalies of pyramids and ziggurats. I see the invention of everything we think is important, as the only thing that existed in the beginning was the basic elements from which everything presently in existence was made.
When I look at history, I see a man on the moon, a broken sound barrier, instant correspondence between two teenagers on opposite sides of the Earth who don’t speak a word of each other’s language. I see the domestication of dogs and cats, the evolution of music, and the creation of the very process through which you now expect to effect change.
Dear history,
Thank you.