WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR ANYWAY?

by ANDRE RODRIGUES

I often-times wonder what goes on in the head of other people. I mean, really, all the time. It even comes to the point of disturbing my very own existence _this thing of placing myself on the other person’s shoes. My teachers used to tell me I had very highly-developed empathy. Which means I could naturally feel what other people were feeling. I guess that’s what leads my ethics: I just can’t harm other people, because I can feel the wrongdoing right before I do it. Like it was about to be done to myself. I believe that is a lacking ability in our world. Urgency has made people ever selfish. Perhaps people have always been really selfish, but I don’t want to be too judgmental of anything here. I am speaking for myself, and through my time: our world is urgent, and people act, sometimes, too focused on their own personal gain. They want to pile up things, save up money, only to ensure their own asses don’t get  smacked someday. Loyalty has no place in many places. I see it in my personal life, I feel it at the office _individuals acting individually. What will be of them? Long ago, I realized life is not about winning or losing.When I first saw a Banksy’s street art, it rushed like liquid fire into my head. What was that all about? The girl with a balloon on the wall of a war zone. Or the sky through a painted window, also on a desolate wall somewhere in a place where shelving had become a kid’s lullaby. Banksy pretty much only exists to the people who are capable of seeing through the other person’s view. His emotions run high. Banksy is fighting against something. Can you feel his rage? I really don’t care where he is from, or what he looks like _as the media is constantly trying to “unveil the man behind the legend”. By keeping his anonymity, Banksy reinforces his only purpose: the man is part of a whole, a piece of a much bigger puzzle. His face, his identity, nothing matters. What matters is his will to change the world we are living in. For better. In his dreams, little girls run free, landscapes can be found everywhere, aggressive policemen are boyfriends kissing each other, bombs are flowers, even the Queen has her fetish. He is fighting for something. That’s the meaning of life, I guess. To push onwards. That is very clear. Even we, at U+MAG, are fighting for something _even we want to interfere in the way fashion and design and style are portrayed nowadays. It does not matter if we are successful, what matters is we are pushing ourselves ahead. Just like Bansky. And you reader: what are you fighting for?
By ROMEU SILVEIRA / December 28, 2011 / DOCS /
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