Did you happen to read Tijn Touber’s column in Odemagazine July/August 2006? He wrote about watching the Beatles Anthology for 10 hours, and, while watching, he noticed the “look in the eyes of the girls” in the audience. It was almost as if they couldn’t deal with the emotions they were feeling. And as he listened again to their songs, the writer said he was struck by the beauty of their originality, and originality was in much of what they did. And originality is what our civilization is now lacking. Tijn Touber reminds us in his column that the Maya calendar stops in the year 2012. And we know what is suggested by this. However, this is not about gloom and doom. It’s about seeing the world with new eyes, to not be imitators. We have to find a way to inspire ourselves, to bring a newness to the world. to bring a beautiful vitality back to civilization. Otherwise, why go on? At present we’re “rehashing.” We’re saturated with copies of everything. What will inspire us to be creators? Perhaps we need to unclog our mind to get to a place that will allow us to bring about a radical change in the way we interpret life.
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