Chidi
Re- this boycott, silence, absence, nonsense:
"boycotting so, so and so,
for so, so and so reason" etc.
I suppose that not talking to someone, or talking very minimally with someone sometimes referred to as "avoidance" in psychology; in Britain and the EU – it's also sometimes antiballistic: a strategic racist/ tribalistic, anti-Semitic behavioural tactic, known as giving someone "the cold treatment" and fits into the same category as deleting his mails and his postings to this forum, fixing your filter to delete or send any of his messages directly to hell or to the trash box. All that is a form of boycotting, silencing the opponent, depriving him of his freedom of speech, his right of reply, his right to reply so that at least he does not disturb your peace of mind, pollute your eyes, your ears, your thoughts, God's oxygen.
Well, consider this stanza 14 from a long piece that I've set to some original type of music
"Don't you talk to them ?"
asked David, just up
from London, very " holy"
"No" I snapped. He went
off to talk to them, and returned
the next morning, terrified
from a night of screaming
on the mountain...barefoot.
"The mountain took my shoes.
Didn't see ANY deer. Thought
I'd die. Shouted
all night for help. Repeated
all the names I knew
for God."
( From Neil Oram's "The Balustrade Paradox" somewhere up the road I'll have to write to his publishers for copyrights since back in 1986 I made music out of all his scraps of poetry in that novel, so that we can now make some good money together)
Just one word: Barefoot – how many oral autobiographies haven't I listened to directly from the mouths of great Sierra Leonean men who rose from nothing to something? It makes you humble to hear that once upon a time they walked for miles, barefoot, to school…
It figures when you take a look at any of the short scientific articles down below:
Being barefoot benefits brain development and more!
Herbie Hancock : "Feets don't fail me now"
Ibrahim,
Boycott is not silence/absence! You would make a statement that you are boycotting so, so and so, for so, so and so reason.
CAO.
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