Master

"The Help" is a bitter sweet movie. Great acting, well written, beautiful production but so many heart wrenching scenes where the words "master" might as well have been used. But it was not publicly said even in the 1960's. Yet in 2014, I read an editorial that called the protests in Hong Kong angering their "masters".

I wonder how many people believe a government is their people's master. Today I saw a discussion about North Korea, a more oppressive regime than just about anywhere. It was mentioned that even being oppressed can feel normal.

In "Shawshank Redemption" Morgan Freeman's character almost killed himself because incarceration seemed more normal to him than not knowing what to do each day.

I hope the older generation in power who has the option to master us, will learn to love our youth by setting them free. This way they will take up their own future, with honesty, faith and confidence finding real social peace and stability that is built from within our lives, and not imposed from without.

Even though Sting sang about love between 2 people this verse in "If you love somebody, set them free" seems to talk about the current Chinese obsession with money over freedom.

"You can't control an independent heart
Can't tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live
We can't live here and be happy with less
So many riches
So many souls
With everything we see that we want to possess"