everyday

[ghostchildren]

It scaares me how much the media and consumer of America focuses on the lives of "famous" people, leading them to a life of eternal paranoia and social isolation. It frightens me to think how someone could be followed every waking minute by a camera, and we as the "people" eat it up. It leads ultimately to whoever is "in" becoming increasingly

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this entry made me think of this quote

[tiltawhirl]

"That song is about being infected. Thoughts, images, desires, ideas injected directly into your head and blood, where George Bush is equal to Paris Hilton is equal to an internet stalker with a hard-on beneath a towel caught on camera naked in the kitchen of his intended victim is equal to some stupid rock band in their video is equal to a poor African kid with flies in his eyes is equal to an American boy getting his legs blown off in Iraq as 100s of thousand Iraqis themselves are displaced or murdered or erupt in an orgy of willing slaughter and public gore and revenge is equal to a slick car commercial with ironic contemporary music is equal to myspace.com or The New York Times. I'm just taking it all in, it's a phantasmagoria of wonder and possibility, more real than any thoughts or reality I might come up with on my own. We're in a new age, for sure. The only reality is pain and orgasm. Everything else is on the news. But it's also a sort of heaven - at least our ancestors might have thought so." -M. Gira