Zeitgeist

Imagine please, if you would, that there is a play being enacted holding its audience in mesmerized silence.  Now imagine, the entire auditorium full of people on stage and a handful sitting on numbered seats.  If you ask me weather I am political or not, I would have to scratch my head for a long while and ponder…only to think that much of my daily actions and endeavour have remained the same, except, now it has all of a sudden, become one of the voices of the people - the people who previously sat on numbered seats and watched passively and applauded when appropriate for a handful of players.  Now the roles have reversed and just like that I find myself speaking the language of the people, with a message for the people in a worldwide internet podium made by the people.  Does that make me political?

Mic Check has become a cultural symbol of Occupy Wall Street where thoughts were communicated peacefully and effectively among millions without microphones or acoustics.  The people have silently co-operated through the years while they lost their dear ones in senseless acts of some power hungry fundamentalists.  This senseless dictatorial complacence spread its stench in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and the rest of the Arab countries.  The people who waited in silence and prayed ignoring hunger and frustration stood together and made their protests heard.  The death of Mohamed Bouazizi a fruit seller might be the single most powerful image of the Zeitgeist that the entire world has now embraced!