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Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
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“Every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every postman unintentionally ends up erecting a brand new institution.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Metaphor is the message.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“I've come not to start a new religion, I have come to carry the rivers to the sea.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Earthlog 3100: I am only the postman
(Metaphor is the message)
I was roaming the stars minding my own business,
with a cheeseburger in one hand and tea cup in another,
suddenly the pompous little cosmos whispered
in its grandiose calm - it's time, you gotta go
to the blue planet its inhabitants call earth -
the others went and returned already,
now it's your turn, letter is in your hands,
you're the postman now.
May I finish my burger first, I sighed!
You'll have plenty where you're going,
earthlings love their food, in fact,
some of them actually consume each other,
in the name of progress, they call it civilizing,
that's why you gotta go -
but be very cautious, of every word you speak,
of how you behave, how you live amongst them,
because every postman unintentionally ends up
erecting a brand new institution.
That's why I've come, not to start a new religion,
I have come to carry the rivers to the sea.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
(Metaphor is the message)
I was roaming the stars minding my own business,
with a cheeseburger in one hand and tea cup in another,
suddenly the pompous little cosmos whispered
in its grandiose calm - it's time, you gotta go
to the blue planet its inhabitants call earth -
the others went and returned already,
now it's your turn, letter is in your hands,
you're the postman now.
May I finish my burger first, I sighed!
You'll have plenty where you're going,
earthlings love their food, in fact,
some of them actually consume each other,
in the name of progress, they call it civilizing,
that's why you gotta go -
but be very cautious, of every word you speak,
of how you behave, how you live amongst them,
because every postman unintentionally ends up
erecting a brand new institution.
That's why I've come, not to start a new religion,
I have come to carry the rivers to the sea.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than it prevents.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every war is friendly fire (Sonnet 3004-3006)
I mean think about this, someone back in the days actually thought, they ought to have a more convenient way to dispose of dissenters, so they designed the guillotine, and later in the modern days, the same kind of apes designed guns, for the same animal purpose, with the same cannibalistic mentality, and I use the term "modern" sarcastically.
And please, my child, do not go all hot and patriotic to say that weapons have their use, because guess what, every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament;
every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than preventing it, guillotine took disproportionately more innocent lives than actually guilty ones in the old days, and today, guns claim more innocent lives than actual terrorists -
usually it's just one soldier killing another soldier, both driven by the same patriotic spirit, pulled like string puppets by warmongers masquerading as world leaders.
In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
I mean think about this, someone back in the days actually thought, they ought to have a more convenient way to dispose of dissenters, so they designed the guillotine, and later in the modern days, the same kind of apes designed guns, for the same animal purpose, with the same cannibalistic mentality, and I use the term "modern" sarcastically.
And please, my child, do not go all hot and patriotic to say that weapons have their use, because guess what, every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament;
every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than preventing it, guillotine took disproportionately more innocent lives than actually guilty ones in the old days, and today, guns claim more innocent lives than actual terrorists -
usually it's just one soldier killing another soldier, both driven by the same patriotic spirit, pulled like string puppets by warmongers masquerading as world leaders.
In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every war is friendly fire.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Earthistana Song
[Verse 1]
I was born without a lineage,
without a holy claim;
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.
But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.
World was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear,
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.
So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality;
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart;
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.
[Verse 2]
I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride;
I've seen nations crowned with glory,
yet cruelty inside.
But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.
We carry the dawn,
now let the darkness retire;
we're the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition brain fiber.
Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you,
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.
[Pre-Chorus]
Lift the fallen beside you,
heal the fractures of fate;
every act of kindness
makes tyranny evaporate.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.
[Bridge]
From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,
when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred;
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
oneness in our vein;
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.
[Final Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Verse 1]
I was born without a lineage,
without a holy claim;
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.
But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.
World was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear,
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.
So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality;
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart;
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.
[Verse 2]
I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride;
I've seen nations crowned with glory,
yet cruelty inside.
But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.
We carry the dawn,
now let the darkness retire;
we're the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition brain fiber.
Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you,
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.
[Pre-Chorus]
Lift the fallen beside you,
heal the fractures of fate;
every act of kindness
makes tyranny evaporate.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.
[Bridge]
From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,
when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred;
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.
[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
oneness in our vein;
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.
[Final Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“The Humanity Festival (Song)
[Intro]
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
[Verse 1]
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.
Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the opposite of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.
[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
[Verse 2]
To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.
No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.
The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.
[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
[Verse 3]
I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries,
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.
Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe star charts,
shake off the spell of algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.
Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.
Justice is not law or doctrine,
justice breathes in you and me,
in our sweat, in our compassion,
in our stubborn will to be free.
[Final Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
[Outro]
Kindness in our soul,
courage in our skin -
every person is my people,
every stranger is kin.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Intro]
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
[Verse 1]
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.
Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the opposite of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.
[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
[Verse 2]
To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.
No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.
The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.
[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
[Verse 3]
I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries,
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.
Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe star charts,
shake off the spell of algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.
Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.
Justice is not law or doctrine,
justice breathes in you and me,
in our sweat, in our compassion,
in our stubborn will to be free.
[Final Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
[Outro]
Kindness in our soul,
courage in our skin -
every person is my people,
every stranger is kin.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Earthright Song
[Verse 1]
Humanity comes from Africa,
no crown owns a single grain.
If you are not indigenous,
you are an immigrant.
The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.
[Pre-Chorus]
No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.
[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no intolerance, no inequality.
Naskar ignites, all humans unite -
our world is our responsibility.
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
reason is braver than conspiracy.
From the river to the galaxy,
kindness is braver than cruelty.
[Verse 2]
Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.
Happiness is not an imperial gift,
Freedom is not a colonial property.
Joy is not a nationalist bequest,
Earth is not a zionist charity.
When erasure becomes religion,
mutiny becomes our right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.
[Pre-Chorus]
Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.
[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no dogma as divinity.
Naskar ignites, and borders collapse -
our world is our responsibility.
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
hope blooms where a human stands.
Till all of us are free, none of us are free -
we lift the globe with naked hands.
[Bridge]
From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.
Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.
[Final Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no hate, no inhumanity.
Naskar calls to the champions of choice,
service of humanity is practical divinity.
Till all of us are free,
none of us are free -
heart, brain and backbone,
are the real holy trinity.
[Outro]
Human is the bridge,
and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented,
on a planet built on loot.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Verse 1]
Humanity comes from Africa,
no crown owns a single grain.
If you are not indigenous,
you are an immigrant.
The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.
[Pre-Chorus]
No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.
[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no intolerance, no inequality.
Naskar ignites, all humans unite -
our world is our responsibility.
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
reason is braver than conspiracy.
From the river to the galaxy,
kindness is braver than cruelty.
[Verse 2]
Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.
Happiness is not an imperial gift,
Freedom is not a colonial property.
Joy is not a nationalist bequest,
Earth is not a zionist charity.
When erasure becomes religion,
mutiny becomes our right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.
[Pre-Chorus]
Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.
[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no dogma as divinity.
Naskar ignites, and borders collapse -
our world is our responsibility.
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
hope blooms where a human stands.
Till all of us are free, none of us are free -
we lift the globe with naked hands.
[Bridge]
From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.
Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.
[Final Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no hate, no inhumanity.
Naskar calls to the champions of choice,
service of humanity is practical divinity.
Till all of us are free,
none of us are free -
heart, brain and backbone,
are the real holy trinity.
[Outro]
Human is the bridge,
and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented,
on a planet built on loot.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Every Culture is My Culture (The Song)
[Verse 1]
With infinite love brimming in my heart,
I have arrived at your doorstep.
Please my friend, do not turn me back,
let kindness grant a little space.
It's not my fault I wasn't born
inside the world you call your own,
but I have carried your culture in me,
like seeds of love I've grown.
[Pre-Chorus]
I may not speak your native tongue,
I may not know your way of life,
but do you not smile the way I smile,
do you not cry in pain and strife?
[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.
Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country.
every people is my world.
[Verse 2]
No more hatred, no segregation,
no more "your people and mine".
No more flags dividing hearts,
no more borders in the mind.
Every people ever wronged
are our people everywhere,
every tear that falls in silence
is a burden we must share.
[Pre-Chorus]
To hell with skin and flag and throne,
to hell with pride that blinds the soul.
Human hearts are one horizon,
love alone will make us whole.
[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.
Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.
[Bridge]
Blood doesn't make us human,
skin doesn't make us kind.
Culture cannot crown compassion,
love alone defines the mind.
When the suffering of another
makes us forget our name,
then the human race awakens
from its ancient tribal shame.
[Final Chorus]
Naskar calls the humans high -
let compassion lead us through.
Every country is my country,
every culture is mine too.
Rise and light the world tonight,
till the walls of hatred fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.
[Outro]
Here I stand with arms outstretched,
at every door across the land.
Hold them with love and walk beside me,
for together we will stand.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Verse 1]
With infinite love brimming in my heart,
I have arrived at your doorstep.
Please my friend, do not turn me back,
let kindness grant a little space.
It's not my fault I wasn't born
inside the world you call your own,
but I have carried your culture in me,
like seeds of love I've grown.
[Pre-Chorus]
I may not speak your native tongue,
I may not know your way of life,
but do you not smile the way I smile,
do you not cry in pain and strife?
[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.
Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country.
every people is my world.
[Verse 2]
No more hatred, no segregation,
no more "your people and mine".
No more flags dividing hearts,
no more borders in the mind.
Every people ever wronged
are our people everywhere,
every tear that falls in silence
is a burden we must share.
[Pre-Chorus]
To hell with skin and flag and throne,
to hell with pride that blinds the soul.
Human hearts are one horizon,
love alone will make us whole.
[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.
Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.
[Bridge]
Blood doesn't make us human,
skin doesn't make us kind.
Culture cannot crown compassion,
love alone defines the mind.
When the suffering of another
makes us forget our name,
then the human race awakens
from its ancient tribal shame.
[Final Chorus]
Naskar calls the humans high -
let compassion lead us through.
Every country is my country,
every culture is mine too.
Rise and light the world tonight,
till the walls of hatred fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.
[Outro]
Here I stand with arms outstretched,
at every door across the land.
Hold them with love and walk beside me,
for together we will stand.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Fugitive Peace (The Song)
[Verse 1]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.
Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 2]
Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a nation that spends on education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.
War is the currency of political power -
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.
Yet there is no stranger, only neighbor;
everyone is family, no one is foreigner.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 3]
A world without borders
is a world without fear,
it's impossible to control people
when we neither hate nor fear.
Every ape has a talent for war,
takes a human to rise in peace.
Wild animals look good only in jungle,
xenophobia is the ultimate brain disease.
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
beyond brainless indoctrination,
every culture is my culture,
every nation is my nation.
No borrowed make believe,
no quicksand of cowardice,
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.
[Final Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Outro]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
[Verse 1]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.
Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 2]
Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a nation that spends on education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.
War is the currency of political power -
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.
Yet there is no stranger, only neighbor;
everyone is family, no one is foreigner.
[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Verse 3]
A world without borders
is a world without fear,
it's impossible to control people
when we neither hate nor fear.
Every ape has a talent for war,
takes a human to rise in peace.
Wild animals look good only in jungle,
xenophobia is the ultimate brain disease.
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
beyond brainless indoctrination,
every culture is my culture,
every nation is my nation.
No borrowed make believe,
no quicksand of cowardice,
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.
[Final Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!
[Outro]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Earthlog 3002-3003
In many of the monkey nations of earth
their local governments often ban books,
and yet not a single earth country
has banned guns, not a single one -
in some countries you just need money,
in some countries you need a licence,
in others you need to be a soldier or copper,
but not a single country has actually banned guns,
they even ban websites and apps at the slightest
political inconvenience, but never guns.
These are the same animals that
claim to be an intelligent species,
they even cook up aristocratic names
for themselves, such as "sapiens",
meaning wise, or "humanity", implying
qualities like kindness and tolerance!
For a species only a couple of hundred thousand
years old, these hairless apes do have some
intelligence, there's no doubt about that,
but their intelligence seems to have a knack
more for destruction than good -
not only that, they even set up establishments
to normalize their incessant bloodlust as tradition,
and punish dissenters as traitors!
Earth monkeys confuse terrorism for civilization,
exploitation for exploration, prejudice for heritage,
inequality for economy, indifference for democracy,
in fact, there are very few lifeforms in the galaxy
as cannibalistic as the monkeys of the blue rock,
despite being ridiculously capable in every respect.
Humans are like the trees of planet earth,
extremely rare in the universe, yet still wasted.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
In many of the monkey nations of earth
their local governments often ban books,
and yet not a single earth country
has banned guns, not a single one -
in some countries you just need money,
in some countries you need a licence,
in others you need to be a soldier or copper,
but not a single country has actually banned guns,
they even ban websites and apps at the slightest
political inconvenience, but never guns.
These are the same animals that
claim to be an intelligent species,
they even cook up aristocratic names
for themselves, such as "sapiens",
meaning wise, or "humanity", implying
qualities like kindness and tolerance!
For a species only a couple of hundred thousand
years old, these hairless apes do have some
intelligence, there's no doubt about that,
but their intelligence seems to have a knack
more for destruction than good -
not only that, they even set up establishments
to normalize their incessant bloodlust as tradition,
and punish dissenters as traitors!
Earth monkeys confuse terrorism for civilization,
exploitation for exploration, prejudice for heritage,
inequality for economy, indifference for democracy,
in fact, there are very few lifeforms in the galaxy
as cannibalistic as the monkeys of the blue rock,
despite being ridiculously capable in every respect.
Humans are like the trees of planet earth,
extremely rare in the universe, yet still wasted.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Humans are like the trees of planet earth, extremely rare in the universe, yet still wasted.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
“Earthlog Sonnet 3001
In a tiny backwater of the milkyway galaxy
there spins a hilarious blue pebble called earth,
which is dominated by a species of monkeys,
whose lives primarily revolve around power,
first it was prophets, then it was kings,
later it was ceo's, and all these top monkeys claim
to seek power in the interest of their people,
they even have an earth-specific name for this
seemingly idealistic sentiment, they call it "humanity,"
but by the time they reach to the top,
they have hardly any trace of humanity left -
whereas the only people who stand as exception
to the traditional ape-hunger for power,
are often ordinary individuals, who care neither
for power nor fame, yet carry out the majority
HUMANly duties on behalf of their entire species.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
In a tiny backwater of the milkyway galaxy
there spins a hilarious blue pebble called earth,
which is dominated by a species of monkeys,
whose lives primarily revolve around power,
first it was prophets, then it was kings,
later it was ceo's, and all these top monkeys claim
to seek power in the interest of their people,
they even have an earth-specific name for this
seemingly idealistic sentiment, they call it "humanity,"
but by the time they reach to the top,
they have hardly any trace of humanity left -
whereas the only people who stand as exception
to the traditional ape-hunger for power,
are often ordinary individuals, who care neither
for power nor fame, yet carry out the majority
HUMANly duties on behalf of their entire species.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes