Past Rough Essay Time!

With the mood of uninspiration haunting me, I'll show you a random essay draft I wrote that nothing in which got into the actual essay. Have fun interpreting the flying colors of bad words.

I feel inclined to write what I feel I should write about the things my thoughts provoke me to write by the abstract actings of my brain. The thoughts that linger here, covering many lingering topics letting miriads of subtopics linger from them like swingsets built an the hair of a human head haunt me with haunting messages whoes letters are hauntingly arranged to construct haunting words lining up into haunting sentences. The clarity of my thoughts in the time my hands, or rather fingers can move is like the clarity of a frozen car window in the early morning. I hope that, like a car window frozen in the morning, I will somehow be able to make clear the sight of my driven driving of expression, perhaps with a psuedo defrost button. I suppose we'll see. That was two sentences in one, wasn't it? I guess I'm getting more clear now. Yes, I feel like a superhero who just woke up from an arousing dream of pleasure and who is discomforted by the cold air that seems to prey on him as he takes off the covers. I don't know, you figure it out. I'm just the typer who is procrastinating in a creative way to clear his thoughts. I'm supposed to be writing an essay about Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau, it doesn't have to specifically be about them, but it has to do with the subjects they discuss. I decided, since I couldn't think of anything else, to do a comparance of the two, a sort of similarity search. In my findings its difficult to come up with examples of how they are similar in a way I know they are, but can't explain. I'm better then this. I'm gonna do some paragraph separation now, or when it is correct to do so.

My first click of inspiration for this essay came as I was writing a freewrite for it during class (something I can only enjoy doing when it's going nowhere for some reason). The idea blew up in my mind that I could discuss how Thoreau came up with the idea of civil disobedience, but didn't spread it very far because of his ethics. He wrote in his essay that he had better things to do with his time then actually stop slaver, but he didn't want to support it in any way either. So his resolve was to simply not pay the taxes to the state as long as it alowed slavery.

He published his little essay on some obscure paper that only upperclass smart asses who already believed that slavery was a sin of mankind were bound to read, and did read, and did agree with him. His objective was to convince those people to do what he did, ie stop supporting the things they didn't believe in; I suppose he succeeded in his mission, but what a minscule problem solver, huh? He was like a guy looking at deer hunters and jeering at them and promising that he wouldn't eat deer ever, but not doing anything to actually save the freaking dear, ie slaves.

I bet his readers had a ball with his freaking amazing intuition. They were probably like wow, that was quite interesting, and maybe I should stop supporting slavery by refusing to pay taxes, but I'll think about that later; lunchtime is soon, so...And they never thought about it again. See what I'm saying? That was probably their reaction to his little fiasco, the equivalent of watching a soap opera episode: you care for the characters for about thirty minutes, but then they die off. The minute you turn the tv off, it's basicaly over. Maybe it'll linger in your mind for a few extra minutes, but once you start doing some mind inducing task, it's gone. That's how I'm saying they reacted to his thing, to be a repetive asshole.

What I'm trying to say in my haphazardly typing is that Thoreau made no efforts to spread his ideas, to free the slaves, or to stop the war in mexico. He had other things to do (I know I said that already. Sue me.), like find out what it was like to live on his own. (what a fucking hypocrit) he claimed that people who cared not a drop were worse than people who cared a whole lot. I'm tired, so lets go on to the next subject. What I am doing here with this super long and unconstructed, probably longer than seven hundred words by now, essay is compare Thoreau with King in how they did action. Oh, one more thing, Thoreau claimed that action was important to bring about change, yet he only half did action to end the things he thought wrong; he ignored them and refused to support them, but didn't make an effort to resort them (I'm sorry, I think in rhymes because I'm a freaking musical artist 'saying freaking when I already said fucking, smooth.')

King, on the other hand, was quite the opposite. Not only did he believe like Thoreau, that slavery was evil and separation was evil, but he preached his believes to every single being he could reach with his voice and his life. He was like the Jesus Christ of the twentieth century, for not only did he preach, but he told his followers to preach as well. He spread the word with every ounce of devotion he had in his soul, his mind, and his body. He truly fought for the cause he believed in, like a true soldier (true twice isn't so great now, is it?)

When he was sent to prison, he didn't linger about and think about "oh wow, I can hear sounds like its the middle ages and I've never heard my town like this." But he wrote a long letter explaining why his imprisonment was wrong and continuing to fight for his right and the right of his people. Even while in prison he fought. Thoreau stated that simply being in prison would get the governments attention, but King didn't stop there, he used every second of his time to bring about his cause and that's why he is considered a hero and Thoreau is just some lonley theorist. Yes, Thoreau does deserve to be credited and, yes he is a very advocate liear of (wait a minute). This is my filler of the day, great talking to you. Yes, he did start the idea, thus proving his own statement "If one person were to be against slavery, ie if there were one honest man in the world, slavery would end" He was right, and he was definitely that person as far as the provider of the means, but lets not forget that without people like Ghandi or King, his ideas, his beliefs would go nowhere and that's a fact.

And that's the end of that. Hopefully, I'll have something to actually write the next time. Heheheh. (I don't know, so don't ask!)