"Punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being." –Joe Strummer
I just want to say to everyone… if you have not yet seen The Future Is Unwritten, go out and buy it. Watch it and listen to the words, especially at the very end (It made me cry). Powerfully impacting and inspiring, it is capable of rekindling that spark of excitement and motivation to look forward to the future and speak up about what you believe in. It shows how powerful words can be and how important our voices are. Anyone can make a change, and together, human beings can find strength in one another. The words of one human being to another can mean so much.
Although I may have gotten a bit of a late start on my journey of experiencing The Clash and Joe Strummer, the music and the messages that it encapsulates has really moved me very deeply over the past few months.
If you think that you are insignificant in a world of fire, where everything is burning and you feel there's nothing you can do but sit back and watch the pretty flames--WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!! Embrace your fellow humankind around you. Help your neighbor. Lend them your ear. Get out and just talk to people. Listen. Why don't we treat each other with respect instead of criticism? Instead of hating others or pointing fingers, blaming people for this and that like a bunch of whiners… why don't we just CHANGE things? Why don't we prove just how POWERFUL we can be?
Strummer's last words on the dvd… let's try to always remember this…
"People can change anything they want to,
and that means everything in the world. . . .
. . . It's time to take the humanity back into the centre of the ring, and follow that for a time...
Think on that.
Without people, you're nothing."
