《Future Feminism》是Antony & The Johnsons演唱的歌曲。
基本介紹
- 歌曲：Future Feminism
- 語種：英語
- 發行日期：2012年08月07日
- 歌手：Antony & The Johnsons
- 所屬專輯：Cut The World
歌曲歌詞
Future Feminism - Antony & The Johnsons
“I've been thinking all day about the moon.
Like, is it an accident that women menstruate
once a month and that the moon comes once a month?
Are other animals synchronized in
this way with the moon?
You know,
my brother works in mental health and he says
that there's a lot more hospitalizations
and periods ofactivity during the full moon.
It's a known fact in mental
health that people are more excitable
around the full moon.
“And then, what about the fact that
we're made of 70% water?
And then the whole ocean reacts to
the full moon, right?
In a serious way. Everything's ticking
around that moon andif we're 70% water
I must be having some at least homeopathic
relationship with the changing cycles of the moon.
“I can't escape my obsession with the idea that
I'm made out of this place,
because I was raised to believe that
I fundamentally was constituted
of spiritual matter
that was from somewhere else like
Heaven or from a Sky God.
Like Gore Vidal talks about Sky Gods and
I really picked up that language
because in patriarchal monotheisms we all
worship a God elsewhere who has a plan
for us in a paradise
elsewhere: After we die there will be a
paradise waiting for us and this
place is like a work station where we sort
of get all our 'T's crossed and
our 'I's dotted before we go
off to a real spiritual dimension.
“But I'm a witch.
I actually de-baptised myself.
And what's great about being
transgender is you're born
with a natural religion.
It applies almost across the board no matter what
culture or economic group or nation that
you're from you're almost automatically a witch.
None of the patriarchal monotheisms
will have you.
It's very clear that in most of those religions
you'd be put to death. In many parts of the world
you still are put to death.
“Did you hear what the Pope said a couple
years ago on Christmas?
He said that the marriage of gays
and lesbians was as much a threat
to the future of our world as the collapse
of the rain forests.
（audience laughter） So,
that gives you a sense just an inkling
to his approach to the homosexual question.
（laughs） And that's just the homosexual question.
He didn't even address the transgender question.
（sarcastically） God knows what we've caused.
All sorts of wars and strife all manner of hurt.
“I'm worried that the ecology
of the world is collapsing and that
I won't have anywhere to be reborn because
I actually believe,
like, where is any of us going?
Where have any of us ever gone?
We've come back here in some form.
Did you know that whales were once
land roaming mammals?
And then they crawled back into
the ocean trying to find something to eat?
And then eventually they got rid of
their hands and legs.
“I've been searching and searching
for that little bit of my constitution
that isn't of this place and
I still haven't found it.
Every atom of me, every element of
me seems to resonate,
seems to reflect the great world around me.
So, I've come to the conclusion
that this is God's best idea
that this manifest world is the
frontier of his dream,
or her dream in my opinion. So,
that's just my point of view from
where I can start to establish a new
way to value the world that
I'm a part of.
Cause if I'm not heading off
to paradise elsewhere
when I die then I have more of
a vested interest in observing
a sustainable relationship with this place.
“It's a very indigenous idea that
the Earth is a female,
that the Earth menstruates,
that the water of the world is the
blood of a woman's body
and that's what we crawled out of
just in the same way
that we crawled out of our mother's wombs.
It's the most basic idea;
any child could come up with it
and it's so obvious.
And yet we've been straining for
these Sky Gods for a couple
thousand years now.
And I remember praying to God when
I was like six years old.
I was raised Catholic and
I prayed really hard,
and I waited and waited to hear that summons.
I think in a funny way, a lot of my music
I'm listening for that response still.
“I've heard two rumors about the Dalai Lama.
One is that he said he wasn't
going to be reincarnating
because the world was going to be
too dangerous and
that's probably just a rumor.
But then I heard a far more
interesting new rumor,
which is that the Dalai Lama
said the next time
he incarnates it will be as a girl,
which will be the
first in the history of Buddhism.
But I think that that is the
most revolutionary thing he could
possibly do and the most
helpful spiritual gesture that he could make.
And I'm very interested in the
feminization of the deities.
I'm very interested in Jesus as a girl.
I'm extremely interested in
Allah as a woman. And contrary to popular opinion,
it's not bad to say that you can say it.
I mean you might get a little letter
in the mail but
I'm probably due a hundred letters
in the mail already,
so...
（laughs）. It's a wonderful day to die.
“But nonetheless,
Allah as a woman is a critical threshold and
Buddha as a mother is another one because
I truly believe that unless we move
into feminine systems
of governance we don't have a chance on
this planet （applause）.
And there's no one else that can lead the
masses to do that except for, like,
the major religious institutions.
And I'm someone who's looking for
a reason to hope,
and for me hope looks like
feminine systems
of governance being instated in,
like, the major religious institutions
and throughout corporate and civil life.
And it might sound far-fetched,
but if you look at your own beliefs,
just imagine how quickly you accepted
the idea that the ocean is rising
and the ecology of our world is collapsing.
We can actually imagine that more
readily than we can imagine a switch
from patriarchal to matriarchal systems of
governance a subtle shift in the
way our society works.
“It's obviously a very broad statement
and of course Sarah Palin
exists so don't bother me with that.
But, Sarah Palin is working very much
within patriarchal systems.
I just love that moment when Benazir Bhutto
was being interviewed
and she just talked about motherhood
and daughters and
how she wished she'd had done more
for the girls of her country.
For as problematic as she was,
she was an exciting forerunner.“
