Yannick Jacob | A Philosophy of Fearful Freedom & Hip Hop

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Yannick Jacob is interviewed by Dr Natalie Fraser for The Global Existential Summit | Mission #1
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[@alexae1367]

Omg. You're in an instant just in the introduction talking about what are the deepest things I feel like I can't even tell anybody without being considered negative and just, not wanting to show myself off enough, and I realize that I was raised on the wrong continent.
I'm glad I at least know what my father knew being European, but it also hurts to know that I could have had a completely natural feeling life that felt utterly stilted and phony because of growing up in America. Most people can't get over themselves how proud they are to be on video all the time. I've heard people say they hate it but nobody acknowledges that awkwardness like you just so easily did right there.
Thanks

[@wolfchildes]

Relationship.
Anguish of alienation
Rejected by the other
To make another the whole world
Knowing freedom in the arms of love
Objectification
Enslavement to desire
Wanting only one attachment
Yet forever unfulfilled
Bondage to a role
Bound to another’s will
Longing for release
Liberation of the chattel
A facade to destroy
Projections for cell walls
A construct, and an object
Pedestal,carved from stone
How we long to be longed for
Escape from the distancing
Seduction to explore
Subjective in relation
To know freedom
In belonging
Liberty to the dance
Writing songs for passing strangers
A hope that’s ruled by chance
How I long to fall
Into the others arms
But please don’t try to own me
In security there’s calm
Yet seeking the completion
Of another, safe from harm
This I would submit to
To be known
With unconditional regard

[@alexae1367]

You know, I completely understand. But I wonder if we've actually just not learned how not to sell what I call post-traumatic wisdom (please acknowledge me if you like and use this term, I've been saddled with a major neck injury for years and, I have little to be sure I can market competitively except for these ideas I've been developing while being laid up!); that we're not selling ourselves short.
In other words, what if we only think that we need unconditional regard because we have not yet been told that going through a difficult life is a sign of a soul that felt ready to take that kind of incarnation on. And as much more evolved as our social order was before it evolved, - & I don't think we complement that to our past selves enough, - from what I'm learning of history. Anyway what if we know something of great value, that just isn't valued yet.
Cave men and women probably didn't care very much about tulip bulbs! Nor did they respect skinny thoughtful boys with bad eyesight probably very much either!
But now some of these boys make our most valuable commodity - the information consolidating-sharing box