{"id":129926,"date":"2019-03-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=129926"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:08:39","slug":"godot-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/godot-reconsidered\/","title":{"rendered":"GODOT (Reconsidered)"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Mar 2019 – This poem was first written on June 6, 2013, revised many times thru the years into 2019.\u00a0 It is, of course, a \u201cplay\u201d on words from \u201cWaiting for Godot,\u201d the imaginative 1953 play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters \u2013 Vladimir and Estragon \u2013 wait for Godot.\u00a0 The original play emerged amidst the \u201cbeat generation,\u201d in which the absurdities of the time, the sheer contradictions, were captured in ironies, cynicism, despair, and ambivalence.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

I need express my feelings about current times.\u00a0 Finding in them, parallel, the same absurdities; but the risks, dangers, threats, greater! Does it ever change?<\/em><\/p>\n

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What are you doing?
\nI am waiting for Godot.<\/em>
\nWho is Godot?
\nI don\u2019t know.<\/em>
\nWhy are you waiting for Godot?
\nHe asked me to wait.<\/em>
\nWhat does he want?
\nI don\u2019t know?<\/em>
\nWhen is he coming?
\nI don\u2019t know?<\/em>
\nHow will you recognize him?
\nI don\u2019t know? <\/em>
\nHow long will you wait?
\nI don\u2019t know?<\/em>
\nWhat if he doesn\u2019t come?
\nHe always comes!<\/em>
\nHow do you know, he will come?
\nHe sent me an \u201cAce of Spades!\u201d<\/em>
\nWhat does that mean?
\nIt means he knows!<\/em>
\nI don\u2019t understand!
\nGodot knows.<\/em>
\nMay I stay with you?
\nI will leave now.<\/em>
\nI will leave too!
\nGoodbye!<\/em>
\nStay!<\/em>
\nWhat if Godot comes?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, is a past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Emeritus Professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii\u2019s Manoa Campus in Honolulu, Hawaii, and past director of the World Health Organization Psychiatric Research Center in Honolulu. \u00a0He is known internationally as a pioneer figure in the study of culture and psychopathology who challenged the ethnocentrism and racial biases of many assumptions, theories, and practices in psychology and psychiatry. In more recent years, he has been writing and lecturing on peace and social justice. He has published 21 books and more than 300 articles, tech reports, and popular commentaries. His<\/em> TMS articles may be accessed<\/em> HERE<\/a> and he can be reached at <\/em>marsella@hawaii.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWaiting for Godot,\u201d emerged amidst the \u201cbeat generation,\u201d in which the absurdities of the time, the sheer contradictions, were captured in ironies, cynicism, despair, and ambivalence. I need express my feelings about current times. Finding in them, parallel, the same absurdities; but the risks, dangers, threats, greater! Does it ever change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":129927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}