We Will Not Cave

 I want to be that . . . You know we're all black women by way of representation.  Black lives matter

 Stop brainwashing us! Stop brainwashing us! Stop brainwashing us!

 Prophecy or Conspiracy Theory:  In 2012 in the PhD program I was in I first learned of wokeness.  I saw Woke coming.  There is a documentary Southern Comfort about transgender individuals and the torment and difficulties in their lives.  Even can be a tear jerker, if you care about people.  It is on YouTube and I saw this coming quite a few decades ago.  As far as representation and reality goes we are given a minority view representation and it is working to change us through media; want it or not?  Like it or not?  too bad it is happening. Will WHO rule the world, I have been told by a person of good repute that this is a possibility.  This person is your typical nice friendly and reliable person and I trust THEIR words.  It is quite amazing how we become immune to the lies that we are fed on the tube TV and internet FB and Snapit or whatever it is called. Please keep your distance from these converters, who make proselytes, who ...

Representation is Reality . . . Representation is Reality, Indeed!  This could be my last blogpost, as wewillnotcave winds down, but is perhaps the most salient and prophetic (pointing to the Real) in title and content as one can be in these times.  Stuart Hall wrote a great deal about representation and many have used his work to demonstrate the power of the images that people are exposed to in the 20 th century, and now the 21 st century.  That Representation IS Reality is ultimately truth, which is a phrase most most most Christians might abhor.  I make no bones about it, Truth is represented, Truth cannot be encapsulated just as God’s name cannot be spoken without true judgment come upon one’s that utter attempts to reproduce the Name. But let’s not get caught up in the ethereal or the theological.  Representation demonstrated on a screen only fuses one to the Truth, which is in fact the representation itself.   Look around and notice who and what i...