you have to believe in something or you're bound to fall for anything. believe in yourself. a tree, a rock, your cat, your penis, the bible, your girlfriend, rhinoplasty, squatter's rights, your mama's a-line dress, whatever you have to to get the job done.
Re: tl;dr...sulphuroxideJune 27 2010, 06:42:38 UTC
it's maybe a matter of semantics but i believe in nothing. i mean, i think meaning is useful. something we should actively participate in creating and be engaged in but that ultimately meaning is meaningless. it's like a network of meaning which in itself gives birth to a smoooothness... which i think is the same direction as what foucault calls the 'aesthetic life'. i dont mean like hedonistic artists or like nihilist artist or anything like that. but that, speaking loosely, one's 'life' is a work of art. that's what i believe, but in itself it's nothing. it's meaningless.
so maybe i see what you are saying or maybe i don't and am confused because i use some of the same words as you do. i still feel frustrated at being unable to impact, connect and in general embed with society as a whole. it's like ewan macgregor's character in trainspotting; 'there is no society'. i am in lacan's 'there is no relationship'
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let me be trite:
you have to believe in something or you're bound to fall for anything. believe in yourself. a tree, a rock, your cat, your penis, the bible, your girlfriend, rhinoplasty, squatter's rights, your mama's a-line dress, whatever you have to to get the job done.
oh, and writers write.
looks like you're still in the game.
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so maybe i see what you are saying or maybe i don't and am confused because i use some of the same words as you do. i still feel frustrated at being unable to impact, connect and in general embed with society as a whole. it's like ewan macgregor's character in trainspotting; 'there is no society'. i am in lacan's 'there is no relationship'
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