something i wrote

[goatcow]

so i wrote this about a month a go. it was a flurry of words and ideas. it strobes a little between ideas. im not sure if it actually states anything more than how something made me feel. it is still a ruff draft, but recent personal events have caused my mind to become foggy and i don't think i can finish it. it's a belief of mine that ideas are

Comments

[easybakelovin]

Rocky,

we may have had our differences in the past, guy, but I would just like to inform you that you are a bad-ass motherfucker and I hope you stay as cool as you are now for the rest of your life.

*APPLAUSE*

There's a book I'm going to let all of my friends borrow once I'm done reading it called "Days of War, Nights of Love." I shall now add you to the list...

--Jordan

However,

[easybakelovin]

I still don't get the Ani D thing...

Re: However,

[goatcow]

she just does alot of good has the power to make us all reflect on our identity and impact on this world with her words.

[humanpathos]

Excellent post, Rocky. :D

[goatcow]

hehe. love ya evan. :P

Bravo

[glassskies]

Very good, I enjoyed reading. you get you're ideas accross very clearly. : ) I'm adding you to my friends list so that I might catch goodies like this now and then, keep up with it, and feel free to add me as well

Re: Bravo

[goatcow]

:D thanks mystery lady. hi, im rocky, btw.

[jentle]

he informs us that apparently “this isn’t a car you buy to just drive, but to say that you have really made it”.

by far one of the most depressing statements that i have heard summarizing the world we live in

Sadly when we state that is a depressing statement - it's because we are envious and because we have not "made it." Capitalism has done such a fantastic job of brainwashing the masses (and the masses have allowed it in order to have something to grasp onto and to aspire too) into beliving that gleaming hunks of metal really tell you your value as a human. I've become so obsessed w/ Debords idea of the "Spectacle" and I think it is dead on. One of the MANY idea's he talks of in his book, Society of the Spectacle is the idea that society has created this spectacle in which we live in order to ignore the real issues @ hand. Want has become need and everything has been commodified and has a social value placed upon it

[goatcow]

I was slightly pulled in to different directions as to your response. The reason it was depressing to me really wasn't out of envy, i'm not claiming to be devoid of the need to consume. it was depressing because while i understood that fundamentally throughout our society the mainstay of modern life was consumption, i had tried to rationalize it as being more of transmuted version of primal competition for mating rights, food, power, etc...which i'm not saying it isn't in part, just for what ever reason it allowed me to ask the question of myself that maybe it isn't as evolutionary. guess it falls under the old debate about how much of development is biological vs enviromental, but in a sick and twisted way

[jentle]

no no no I do not think YOU are envious - I'm saying that is what society thinks of people like us, who find the mass consumerism to the point where it defines us or let's us know if we have "made it" depressing... It's because we dont have it. Which of course is not true.

[goatcow]

ah, how your comment was written i wasn't sure which way to take it. :D