Three equal spheres of different weights
THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT
Cap locks was on, but I'm not gonna re-type that sentence. Anyway, feeling moderately disappointed with my current trend of being ridiculously apathetic. I've decided to try ranting when I am actually not in an apathetic mood. I've noticed my livejournal sucks almost consistently, and that boring everyday shit is still boring when you try to compile a month's worth into one pseudo-vague post. I know it is a logical fallacy to believe that a rant is the cure to a boring LJ, but who knows. I think the only people who still read it do so out of a mixture of boredom and political camaraderie (you guys rock, I read your journals all the time too, but I feel a little weird commenting in peoples LJs if I haven't met them in person)
I'm generally annoyed at this sudden interest in being aware of trends. Everyone is always aware of trends, but now, having exhausted every other frontier of conversation in this self-serving information mecca that I will deem the "soft internet" (forums, blogs, etc...) we turn to talking about how [observation of trend of group X] is really fucking annoying, and how you've recently noticed it everywhere.
Here's something I've recently noticed everywhere. People are stupid if you let them be, public bathrooms are gross, some people like some things that other people don't like.
Holy shit! I made a livejournal post about it.
My ultimate point is that nothing is dire about this life and we're just coming off some great nihilist bender that counter-culture started leaking in the mid 80s when cyberpunk got its start and pop music had vague and materialistic music videos as a sort of partially prescribed introspective irony.
Yes, I completely realize that I just typed "partially prescribed introspective irony", not only did I type it, I meant it fuckers. I'm tired of people cynically observing pseudo-intellectuals. I'm probably one of them. deal with it. I didn't spend my childhood reading good books and studying inane things so you could get annoyed when I throw around big concepts or words you don't know. I don't honestly think anyone I know is debilitating stupid, I'm not trying to flex some hidden brain muscle, I thought a thought and I said it. Its actually pretty low as far as echelons of thought go.
Anyway. if you want a real trend observation, I've got one for you. being fatalistically observant. You just realized that a lot of people are manipulative, so now you are gonna be manipulative too, because you totally figured out 'the game'. sweet. Lets boil it down, you noticed something that you DIDN'T LIKE so you are going to emulate it because you are now enlightened. Good. That is effective.
This is everyone. I do this. I DO THIS, ME. Anyway, its retarded. If life was actually as bad as we all know we wish it was, then suicide would be logical and all the worthwhile/intelligent/observant people would be dead. If that’s the case the world really sucks. Despite seeming like the world might suck now, it doesn't or you would be dead too.
Anyway, I like hipster music, also, I am human. One trait of being human is observing everything under a completely personal perceptual set. Things which provide me with a lot of pleasurable stimulus will probably not provide every single human of every imaginable demographic with the same amount or quality of stimulus. Therefore, I am inclined to believe that the things which give me the greatest amount of pleasurable stimulus are the best things.
I get pleasurable stimulus from searching for obscure music for an hour on my weekend, and an even greater amount of stimulus when that band plays obscurely and I listen to this obscure noise on repeat for 6 hours. [Yes I did need to use the adjective/adverb Obscure that many times]. This is not postulation, it is true.
Taking these things into consideration, I am proud of my music taste. and yet, look how easy it is to attach yourself to the recent observational trends of being counter-counter culture. Gosh those hipsters sure are elitist, pseudo-intellectual jerks.
Good, yay. You win, I like the things I like more than the things you like. Can I subscribe to all the things you like now, and though I am actually doing the exact same thing as before, be much harder to easily lump into a group and therefore somehow immune to being considered elitist?
What a tangent, man.
Ultimately our generation was raised without a real unifying (or even polarizing) social cause to rally behind, instead we are left to bicker, not even in person, but in text, about inane things. When we aren't doing this, we like to reminisce about the shared common stimulus that we all had as children since we were raised by media as much as by parents.
Think back. Ninja Turtles, Mega Man, Thunder Cats, the Goonies, Nightmare before Christmas; Back then we all liked the same things because we didn't have the time or apathy to rouse us into dissent. Gee, I wonder why nostalgia is so appealing?
Grow up! That is what I would tell everyone if there wasn't such a troubling trend which I have been recently observing (get the joke? haha) of maturity being directly correlated to assholeism.
So I say to ye weary masses, regress!!
Cap locks was on, but I'm not gonna re-type that sentence. Anyway, feeling moderately disappointed with my current trend of being ridiculously apathetic. I've decided to try ranting when I am actually not in an apathetic mood. I've noticed my livejournal sucks almost consistently, and that boring everyday shit is still boring when you try to compile a month's worth into one pseudo-vague post. I know it is a logical fallacy to believe that a rant is the cure to a boring LJ, but who knows. I think the only people who still read it do so out of a mixture of boredom and political camaraderie (you guys rock, I read your journals all the time too, but I feel a little weird commenting in peoples LJs if I haven't met them in person)
I'm generally annoyed at this sudden interest in being aware of trends. Everyone is always aware of trends, but now, having exhausted every other frontier of conversation in this self-serving information mecca that I will deem the "soft internet" (forums, blogs, etc...) we turn to talking about how [observation of trend of group X] is really fucking annoying, and how you've recently noticed it everywhere.
Here's something I've recently noticed everywhere. People are stupid if you let them be, public bathrooms are gross, some people like some things that other people don't like.
Holy shit! I made a livejournal post about it.
My ultimate point is that nothing is dire about this life and we're just coming off some great nihilist bender that counter-culture started leaking in the mid 80s when cyberpunk got its start and pop music had vague and materialistic music videos as a sort of partially prescribed introspective irony.
Yes, I completely realize that I just typed "partially prescribed introspective irony", not only did I type it, I meant it fuckers. I'm tired of people cynically observing pseudo-intellectuals. I'm probably one of them. deal with it. I didn't spend my childhood reading good books and studying inane things so you could get annoyed when I throw around big concepts or words you don't know. I don't honestly think anyone I know is debilitating stupid, I'm not trying to flex some hidden brain muscle, I thought a thought and I said it. Its actually pretty low as far as echelons of thought go.
Anyway. if you want a real trend observation, I've got one for you. being fatalistically observant. You just realized that a lot of people are manipulative, so now you are gonna be manipulative too, because you totally figured out 'the game'. sweet. Lets boil it down, you noticed something that you DIDN'T LIKE so you are going to emulate it because you are now enlightened. Good. That is effective.
This is everyone. I do this. I DO THIS, ME. Anyway, its retarded. If life was actually as bad as we all know we wish it was, then suicide would be logical and all the worthwhile/intelligent/observant people would be dead. If that’s the case the world really sucks. Despite seeming like the world might suck now, it doesn't or you would be dead too.
Anyway, I like hipster music, also, I am human. One trait of being human is observing everything under a completely personal perceptual set. Things which provide me with a lot of pleasurable stimulus will probably not provide every single human of every imaginable demographic with the same amount or quality of stimulus. Therefore, I am inclined to believe that the things which give me the greatest amount of pleasurable stimulus are the best things.
I get pleasurable stimulus from searching for obscure music for an hour on my weekend, and an even greater amount of stimulus when that band plays obscurely and I listen to this obscure noise on repeat for 6 hours. [Yes I did need to use the adjective/adverb Obscure that many times]. This is not postulation, it is true.
Taking these things into consideration, I am proud of my music taste. and yet, look how easy it is to attach yourself to the recent observational trends of being counter-counter culture. Gosh those hipsters sure are elitist, pseudo-intellectual jerks.
Good, yay. You win, I like the things I like more than the things you like. Can I subscribe to all the things you like now, and though I am actually doing the exact same thing as before, be much harder to easily lump into a group and therefore somehow immune to being considered elitist?
What a tangent, man.
Ultimately our generation was raised without a real unifying (or even polarizing) social cause to rally behind, instead we are left to bicker, not even in person, but in text, about inane things. When we aren't doing this, we like to reminisce about the shared common stimulus that we all had as children since we were raised by media as much as by parents.
Think back. Ninja Turtles, Mega Man, Thunder Cats, the Goonies, Nightmare before Christmas; Back then we all liked the same things because we didn't have the time or apathy to rouse us into dissent. Gee, I wonder why nostalgia is so appealing?
Grow up! That is what I would tell everyone if there wasn't such a troubling trend which I have been recently observing (get the joke? haha) of maturity being directly correlated to assholeism.
So I say to ye weary masses, regress!!