♮♮🔄🔊The wrecking ball of joy we didn’t realize we were dancing to! Pumped Up Kicks Edition 2025.

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The Wrecking Ball of Joy, And The Light House Of Truth

📅 Earth School Archive — September 2025

I keep seeing the song posted everywhere again, and the comments say it all: “How did we not hear it this way back then?”

But that’s the paradox of art.

When Foster the People wrote the song, it was an anthem for a moment, a beat, a hook, a cultural pulse. Perhaps they even assumed it would stand alone, not echo forward as a prophecy.

Yet here it is, resurfacing. And now we hear it differently.

The Shift in Hearing

At first, it was nostalgia.

The melody of kids running, laughing, and playing.

Upbeat, carefree.

Later, you finally catch the words.

Violent. Intrusive. Heart-wrenching.

First, you dance to the beat.

Then, you can’t unhear the lyrics.

That’s what awakening does:

Forces you to hold both joy and violence in the same space.

Censorship, Truth, and Threat

Now, the song itself has been flagged as “explicit.” Not because of the error, the link is still functional.

Not because the truth vanished, it’s still there. It's trying to make it seem unsuitable, too traumatic to hear. The truth makes people nervous, and I can't be afraid to share it because it doesn't serve anyone to shy away from it except those who benefit from its censorship. But fear is the absence of love; just like the intention of an uplifting beat, love's vibration is higher than fear.

THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU CAN NOT HAVE GOOD WITHOUT EVIL, IT'S A UNIVERSAL LAW.

We're here to learn and grow through both.

We're here, master love, by understanding it through the fact that evil doesn’t create. It hides, deflects, and reroutes. It wrecks. But it can’t erase, can’t silence the light that music carries, that stirs us into awareness.

We also can’t pretend we’re not being tested.

Our rights to speak, to live safely, to question openly are being held at gunpoint sometimes literally, sometimes through policy, and sometimes through the quiet erasure of inconvenient truths.

This isn’t about politics.

It’s about how we show up.

It’s about refusing to look away.

The Paradox of Awakening

Art feels jarring because time isn’t linear.

It cycles.

The beat stays the same, but the lyrics suddenly cut deeper.

That’s the paradox:

Evil destroys, but in its wreckage, joy reveals its proper form, not fragile, not borrowed, not shallow, but indestructible.

Awakening is seeing the wrecking ball swing and still choosing to be joyful. Because joy isn’t the song you thought you knew. Joy is what remains when the lyrics break you open and open you up to act, serve, and be in community with others for the greater good.

Agency: Foster the People

When you break open, you break free.

That’s when the agency kicks in.

Foster the People wrote the song. Time rewrote its meaning, offering an awakening that gives us clarity and options: To ignore it or to foster change through it!

To foster the people in the truest sense! To carry the light through the cracks we missed the first time, to honor lives, defend truth, and be the change-makers who hear both the beat and the words and choose to respond.

Choosing joy doesn’t mean ignoring the threat.

It means recognizing it and still refusing to let it steal your humanity.

Joy, once awakened, becomes fuel for courage, the courage to speak, to act, and to hold space for others even when it’s dangerous to do so.

Because joy, once awakened, cannot be silenced.