This is on me.
Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967), suggested for her tombstone
The world as we live, sees, describe, and interact with on a daily basis. In good times and in bad watching my beloved Monkey Hump that is to be taken literally after 10 years together on and off the net. Social networking, blogging/diary web-cam, instant messaging, no real physical contact of the human species one on one slowly detioriating day by day numbing our senses to only react to a sound or the light of a monitor. The primate survives and thrives in a “hands on” community and most likely would die if put under these exact circumstances. So my question is what are we so afraid and when did we as a people become so disconnected, brainwashed, out of touch with real issues only to be replaced with what a celebrity is wearing, doing, or going or in some extreme sad insecure situations making sport of tearing down, ripping apart, and/or making a mockery of ones misfortune or finding public humiliations entertaining. If you had told me 10 years ago we would be watching “to catch a predator” episodic television I wouldn’t have believed it. As a nation individually we have or for the lack of a better description isolated or have encapsulated ourselves, our stuff, our thoughts, and our emotions to all be compartmentalized as we multi-task ourselves to the grave. If my beloved primate Capuchin Monkey were to live like we do today his kind would surely die. Primates have to be or by nature are group/troupe based. Grooming, touching, playing, fighting, and loving is not only necessary but for me on a personal level sad but inspiring too. He needs me and I most certainly need him. HIV/AIDS has a hold of me now for close to 24 years and at 40 years old I have seen allot so I will try to post again but only if the disease and my monkey hump allows me.
