Woke Up, and Make Peace!

Here's a rewrite of Ian Drury's "Wake Up"....

Here is the original, Have a dance and enjoy!


Here is the re-write. I think Ian might have appreciated this re-write. I will never know.

"Woke Up!"
"Woke Up And Make Peace, With Us."
I come awokeWith a gift for HumankindSome're still asleepBut the gift don't seem to mindRise from the oppressionWoke has got your backBringing down the bullies Nurturing your mind....
You look so self-possessedI won't disturb your restIt's frightening when you're sleepingand wide awake is best.
Wake up and make Woke  with us,Woke up and make PeaceWake up and make Woke today.I don't want to make youI'll let the heart take youAnd you'll wake up and make WOKE!.

I woke up in the morning,in a VERY peaceful mood,
I know Earth built my home.and it's very, very good.
Air, Rock and Water
Sunshine giving light..
I'm woke and awake
And I know that WAR is SHITE!
I come awokeIn a thorny morning moodAnd have a proper niggleAt the haughty rabid dudes.Revolt against the bulliesGet them when they lie,What happens is truth wins,It's also very goooood.
I'll go and get the info,And make some tea and toastYou have another sleep, loveIt's you that needs woke most
Woke up and make Peace with meWake up and make WokeWoke up and make Peace with meI don't want to make youI'll let the fancy take youAnd you'll wake up and make Woke!
Woke up and make Peace with meWoke up and make PeaceWoke up and make Peace with usWoke up and make Peacee (PC, lol!)
Woke upWoke upWoke upWake up!

-- That's it.... lolz.
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Some history on the term Culture Wars, as a context to this rewrite..



In American usage, "culture war" may imply a conflict between those values considered traditionalist or conservative and those considered progressive or liberal. This usage originated in the 1920s when urban and rural American values came into closer conflict. 
This followed several decades of immigration to the States by people who earlier European immigrants considered 'alien'. It was also a result of the cultural shifts and modernizing trends of the Roaring '20s, culminating in the presidential campaign of Al Smith in 1928. 
In subsequent decades during the 20th century, the term was published occasionally in American newspapers...

A wider, deeper context.

If we are to be honest we have to admit that's not just that there are 'culture wars' - is that we live within a War Culture.
'Culture War' is a term the Authoritarian Wealth Extraction Element(AWEE - they are taking the piss) crafted to push back against Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Equity Economics, Environmentalism, Climate Disruption being revealed and a range of other learnings that confront the AWEE with the harms they are causing to people and place, for profit.
The War Culture is waging wars for profit. Russia vs Ukraine, Israel vs Palestine, USUK vs Iraq, NATO vs Afghanistan, NATO vs Libya, NATO vs Syria, Saudi vs Yemen, propaganda abounds as 'truth is the first casualty in war'...
As ever, look towards those pouring funds into the weapon supply for the Culture Wars. 
Why are we fighting?

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Woke is basically the status of consciously, intentionally not being a bully, of desiring de-escalation of conflict leading towards peaceful resolution, of standing on empathy and evidence over sentiment and belief in matters of Governance.

Seems like a good idea.

We workers, parents, students and communities really, really want decent, honest and transparent healthy governance that nurtures all people and our shared environment as a long term sustainable form of social organisation, a system of governance that avoids avoidable harms as it's basic theme - eliminating pollution, environment degradation, waste and wealth extraction, all driven by exploitation.



Kindest regards

Corneilius

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I Need Your Support - Can You Help?

Hello All you lovely people.

I am not able to do live gigs in England, where I live, and have not been earning much in the last 16 months, what with live music events being scuppered, and as a result I have pretty much hit rock bottom in terms of finances.

We Are All Family

Me performing my song 'We are all Family', my anthemic ballad about humanity as one family, made of many ethnicities, nations, languages, lands.

I am seeking your help, your support in financial form via Patreon, inviting folk to donate the equivalent of a cup of coffee or a pint to support me every month, so that I can continue to write this blog, continue to write and produce new songs, perform and maintain my body of work without stressing too much on the financial front. With adequate support I would expect to be able to concentrate even more effort into my work as a writer, commentator and live performer on line.

https://www.patreon.com/corneilius

So right now, every little donation could make a big difference, and lots of donations would have a huge impact on my ability to continue to do my work and would be really deeply appreciated.

I currently run one live show every week, on Wednesday, on Facebook from this account:

https://www.facebook.com/corneiliuscrowleymusic/

I hope to improve and enhance my live broadcast kit, and to be able to broadcast on multiple platforms in HD and in quality stereo, because my music has many layers and is very much spatially arranged. With that in mind I aim to move to a Mac platform, with better quality soundcards, cameras and disk storage. 

I want to deliver a really best quality show, presenting my guitar skills and vocal harmonies to their best advantage,

I hope to be able to return to live gigs in the future, and to be able to travel to locations where my patrons can attended unique and special live events.

What I can offer now is live performances on line, and access to my music, in mp3 or CD quality, which I have always offered for free. 

https://soundcloud.com/coreluminous - here you can most recent find CD quality recordings, free to download

https://soundcloud.com/corneilius-crowley - here you can find CD quality recordings, free to download

https://reverbnation.com/corneilius - here you can find MP3 quality downloads, free to download.


I may be able to offer bespoke TeeShirts as time progresses.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."

Mothers Day. Why only one a year?

Mothers Day. Why only one a year?

Mothers Day.

Thank you Mother.

For everything you were able to share, and for what you were unable to share, for bearing your own loss whilst still holding me, despite all the wounds you endured and the social power setting within which you and our shared mother line has borne so much oppression, for so long.

Thank you Motherhood.

Bless you mothers who do so much that is taken for granted, whilst being subjected to a stream of judgmental propaganda, whilst your situations are being deliberately made more stressful.

Bless You!

All of you!

My gratitude knows no bounds...

Thank you. 2 billion mothers... 2.254.365.221 MOTHERS.

And this : The social power system has to change and meet the true needs of optimally healthy human parenting as a primary mission of de-pollution, of ecological recovery, of sustainable human development. Sooner or later. One way or another.

We need a MOTHERS movement! Everyone is involved!

That is our job.

The rest of us.Mothers Day....

Why only one a year?  Why so mean?

I feel appalled when I observe the hypocrisy of the institutional social systems behaviour towards healthy empathic parenting and towards the children of the nation. From the Vatican to Savile, from recruiting the youth of the poor for war to drugging millions of children into a more compliant state, it is all an assault on both mother and child, which are at the very heart of our human biological and experiential realities that tears us all to pieces.

And what is torn apart is in each case, so precious a life, so exquisite a being, so vulnerable and alive and the tearing of that and the pain caused is in every case an abomination, a negation of the womb, a psychotic dead-end. 

Mothers Day.

Syrian Mothers Day.

Palestinian Mothers Day.

Bullied Mothers Day.

Blame it all on the mothers day, every other day. It's somebody's fault, rather than it's a systemic disease state that the power system engenders, deliberately.

Natural Expectations, rather than cultural assumptions.

Empathy, compassion, vision, a long time line, a desire to nurture and the wisdom to be able to do so in many varied ways, as varied as language group or topography or climate dynamics... these are the qualities I write about in my book, that I attempt to describe as being bio-logical - meaning in the logic the we see emerging from within dynamic living ecosystems of biologically optimally healthy organisms : "Natural Child, Natural Society : both are cause and effect."

And I describe how those qualities are undermined over time when unresolved trauma leads to intergenerational behaviour patterns associated with the need to control others in order to mask a loss of sense of security, and how these behaviour patterns become institutionalised throughout history, and their justifications then inhabit the core of the cultures permitted thinking and analysis as sacred fact.

Mothers Day.

A flower is an expectation of a bug, and of the day and night sequence, and of creative potential in it's role in procreation and as a food source.

A child is also an expression of a set of biologically entrained expectations which if met, leads to the emergence of a capable and competent adult who will hold the space and have the experience for those expectations to be met, consciously, with intent.

So too with mothering, fathering, parenting and indeed relating in healthy, nurturant ways to each other and the world around us. Each are sets of biologically mandated behaviours that are markers of optimal human health.

Know this, and fight back!

Our Mothers are worth it!

Kindest regards

Corneilius

Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe

My Music Promo Blurb - seeking bookings for the summer!

Corneilius sings for the Natural Child, for a Society that is empathic and non hierarchical, intelligent and nurturant.

He eats Sacred Cow burgers, and poops good poop which he composts. He calls this metabolising trauma.

He has a great voice, a loopstation, a swathe of funky licks and a dodgy sense of humour.

He loves being Corneilius, which is his chosen career.

He has been known to  play 3 hour sets and he occasionally djs.... for up to 17 hours...

Find out more about Corneilius @ http://www.reverbnation.com/corneilius and  @ http://www.dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com

Kindest regards

Corneilius

Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe

Summer into Autumn

Back from the summer touring with small worlder wonderment and others at festivals, gatherings and camps throughout the UK and Ireland. Been a great summer for me and I have been introducing more of my musicality to my shows, by way of a boss loop station, and from what feed back I have been getting it's the way to go.......


Loads of photos from the festies on my facebook profile, if your are interested...

Looking back Ihave been so on message for years that I have not been sharing that part of me that is pure music, pure love, pure joy ... and it's a relief to finally discover that the message need not be diluted by including this part of my nature - for indeed if there were not issues to face, twould be beauty most of my music....

So for this winter I intend to get a band together, to expand the loop station usage, to learn beatboxing, to write the first draft of my story, my life thus far - friends have been asking me for years to do this .... so now I start, not sure of how it will form or where it will lead............ I also will be preparing some presentations on the info I am working on, a kinda debrief from our conditioning into being who we really are.....

To anyone, who reads this, that I met during the summer, bless you for keeping the connection alive. Feel free to message me, leave comments, invite me to play, (even in yer living room, if you can get a few friend around and cover my travel costs........) or chat...


Kindest regards

Corneilius

Do what you love, it's your gift to universe