The Blake Cunningham Delirium
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The Blake Cunningham Delirium
EP 19 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE STOP SEEING EACH OTHER AS HUMAN?
Some episodes are born from necessity rather than choice. Returning from hiatus, I find myself confronting the devastating death of Charlie Kirk and the shocking responses it provoked across social media. What chills me to the bone isn't just witnessing such callousness, but recognizing it as symptomatic of a deeper national crisis – our collective failure to see humanity in those with whom we disagree.
The reactions to Kirk's death reveal how entrenched we've become in our worldviews, seeing everything through binary lenses where people are categorized as good or bad based solely on political alignment. This tragedy has become a cultural stain, amplified by social media into a spectacle that forces us to question: what does it mean to be "united" in the United States of America? Unity doesn't require abandoning personal beliefs or even liking everyone – it simply asks that we recognize our shared humanity. As I put it, "We don't have to mow our neighbor's lawn, but we can look out for them."
Amid these reflections, life continues its relentless forward motion. I'm moving to a new apartment, which will allow me to fully actualize what this show is meant to be. Simultaneously, I'm processing the loss of my uncle – the person who inspired my musical journey years ago. This juxtaposition of national trauma and personal grief highlights a universal truth: we reach a point in life where childhood fades, loved ones pass away, and everything familiar gradually changes. Dwelling in the past becomes "a disease that you're feeding," while our only healthy option is seeking "broader, brighter horizons." Perhaps this wisdom applies not just to personal grief but to our national condition as well.
Listen now and join me in contemplating how we might rebuild our capacity for empathy in increasingly divided times. Share your thoughts on finding common ground without compromising your values – I'd love to hear your perspective.
Thank you, Hello, and welcome back to the Blake Cunningham Delirium. This is not the episode I wanted to be making after my hiatus. I take I like to take hiatuses. I'm not really set to a particular schedule for this, but here we are and here we must stay, because a lot has happened and it's not in sort of the goofy way I want it to happen.
Speaker 2:It's been a strange couple of weeks for a number of reasons obvious the devastating death of Charlie Kirk and the complete lack of empathy and sympathy and everything else you want to call it. I mean, you can argue the definition of it, but you know what I mean. And if you're one of those people there's I I don't know where you can go from here, because you just truly lost every shred of humanity you have left. And these are people that I know have seen this behavior from them. But it's also people that I have not seen them directly say it or do it, but just based on the kinds of things that they've said or done in the past, I know I already know their reaction to it and I hope that their reaction is. I only hope that their reaction was something other than that type of behavior, because saying it's wrong or immoral is just too obvious. Moral is just too obvious. I I don't even know how to express the kind of express this kind of thing in a way that I don't know I, I don't want, Because I can't say, oh, I hate these people back for acting this way, because then I'm just I'm not proving their points or any theories or whatever. It's just that I'm I'm reciprocating the same negative energy back that they are spewing out into the world and still spewing out. It's not like this has dialed, it's not like the temperature is dialed down.
Speaker 2:Everybody's just so set in their preconceived notions of the world, I guess, and they see things in such a black and white way where this thing is bad or these people are bad because my worldview tells me they're bad, not because I've taken some liberty to try to understand, maybe, where they're coming from, or even just agreeing to disagree but not wish for death on other people. I mean, I can't sit here and say it's wrong because it's like, just obvious and it haunts me to the core, chills me to the bone, however you want to say it, to think that there are people out there doing this kind of thing, and I know I'm almost a week's late on the subject, but I'm sure such a traumatic stain on it's almost I mean I hate to go here, but it's like a stain on pop culture almost. It became a pop culture spectacle because of social media and the horrors of that and I it's not something I think we should let go or take lightly anytime soon and just hope that maybe people get their heads out of their asses. I'm not saying they have to come to this side or that side or go, you know, change their entire view, but maybe just think about us as one entity. Entity and I think, shoot, I think that's something that maybe we've really lost or maybe we never really had it. But I think we all need to take a look around and realize that we live in the United States of America and think about the united part and what that really means. It doesn't necessarily mean that everybody from all around the world should pile in to this patch of dirt we call America and get along, but it means that we're here, we're already here, we've been here and we should. You know, we don't have to look out, we don't have to mow our neighbor's lawn, but we can look out for them.
Speaker 2:I'm not trying to change the subject of the conversation, of the show, this episode, but I think it will be okay because it's coming from a place of respect. It will be okay Because it's coming from A Place of respect and I Don't Mean anything Negative by it and I Really just hope this is a Pot A and I really just hope this is a turning point upward for the country that I live in and the country that I love, and yeah. So, other than is this, what's going on? What's going on? Oh shoot, but yeah, Other than that things are looking, I hope things start looking upward, but other than that, I'm gonna here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna sprinkle in the good news with the bad news so we can have kind of a a lukewarm ice cream sandwich. So I'm moving out, I'm moving to an apartment and that will be exciting because I can kind of fully actualize what this show is supposed to be and take it fully in the right direction. And the other news, that's the bad news. Or, you know, it depends how you look at it.
Speaker 2:I don't want to look at it in a good way, but it's the circle of life.
Speaker 2:My uncle died and it was, you know natural death. There's been an overwhelming theme of death and things associated with that with these past two-ish weeks. And it's a bummer for me because my uncle was the thing that got me into music. You know, I saw him play and then many, many years later I started playing. But it was an experience that always kind of stuck with me and made me more inclined. I'm sure if I'd never seen that I'd be less inclined to make my music that I make and have ever really started any of that, have ever really started any of that. So it's just weird in life you kinda get to this point where there's kind of this halfway point where you're not a kid anymore and seems like everything around you starts to kind of slowly fade or die or change and there's really nothing you can do about it. And the more you live in the past or look towards the past is kind of like a disease that you're feeding because you just have to look towards the future and find broader, brighter horizons.