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"you're right, the typical american life serves pretty much NO purpose, they've all become mindless drones and they are easily influenced by advertising and marketing ploys; no one can come up with an original thought anymore, they tend to just follow the masses. i HATE sheep."
*snort*
I just recently changed my major from Poetry to Undeclared (because the Poetry department at my school was so lame and I disagreed with a lot of their teaching methods and would much rather write true to my own heart anyway, instead of mass-producing it to please my professors)... thinking about Cultural Studies but who knows... anyway my mother suggested I choose Marketing as a major and I shrieked in horror and screamed bloody murder about robotic lives whose brains have a lifespan of about 5 years (ages 1 to 5) and then they deteriorate with rot (via American Idol).
Don't you think it's kinda unsettling that people my age have never heard of Pink Floyd but then these same-sounding-annoying-fill in the blanks sing a little karaoke and all of a sudden it's OH MY [censored]IN GAWD CLAY AIKEN OH MY [censored]IN GAWD I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOUR MUSIC I LOVE YOUR HAIR YOUR SKIN IS SO CLEAR WHAT'S YOUR SECRET OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SINGING OTHER MUSICIAN'S SONGS AND PROBABLY CAN'T READ MORE COMPLEX MUSIC LIKE BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST THOOOOO ADORABLE AND I'M GONNA MARRY YOU!!!!! *holds I LOVE YOU CLAY MARRY ME sign up and cries*
You wanna know what they do over in Pakistan, regarding all these American TV shows? They edit and dub them like all hell and everything's so controlled and censored. You can definitely watch uncensored stuff but all the tv stations at my grandpa's house were all dubbed/censored...
I was there when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Imagine this: You're sitting in the car with your family when all of a sudden your uncle has to frantically turn the car around and speed away because there is a mob of angry people with torches and fire and gasoline and sticks and bats and pistols ready to kill and destroy everything in sight. (This really happened to us.) And since the literacy rate in that country is only 30-something %, people flip out over the slightest turmoil because they are not educated at all and so do not understand the inner workings of things... so the government is incredibly corrupt and takes advantage of these poor starving people (and even the police officers and military are known to beat and rape rather than help...) and when Bhutto was assassinated... EVERYTHING WAS SHUT DOWN! Scary stuff. And at any time, they can just turn off the media, or whatever else.
My whole point of this is that... I can't even believe that so many Americans think their way of life is superior to everyone else's and so they feel that this culture should be forced upon every other culture that exists. I mean, I'm saying this from my own observations, it will never work! Especially in Pakistan, holy hell, WWIII and that is not an exaggeration...
People do NOT feel liberated by whiteys, you know? They just feel oppressed by people with a different skin color...
I couldn't agree with you more. Death to "reality" tv! ARGH! You know, I was curious a few times and watched a few of those shows, and I seriously couldn't tell the difference because they're all the damned same. Energy drinks... are such an unnatural way of living, and yeah, dependency on them comes from the way we live in this society where everything is go, go, go. Go to school, get a degree, work all the time until you're old, retire, and die like 5 years later.
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I don't see how the typical American life serves a purpose, I really don't. And what's worse is that... I see all of these things being absorbed elsewhere. Like, for example, I was in Pakistan for about a month recently (have family there), and as you probably know that country has A LOT of problems with extreme poverty and war and anything you can possibly think of and even things you could never think of... well they are being introduced to McDonalds and reality tv shows and whatnot... and... I can't imagine any good will come of it because it's a battle between the burqa and the bikini.
Who will win?
*sigh* I'm sorry to ramble but yeah, I know what you're saying. I hope you continue to write about these things.
I was going to try and help with some suggestions about sloth, but as soon as I started thinking about it, I started to get really sleepy and then . . .
Okay, I don't know if this will still be useful being as I'm almost a month late but writing about sloth can be quite a difficult thing. Being as it is a lack of action, you must introduce the notion of action by lack of action, therein leaving room for a greater analysis. Because even apathy speaks with pathos in that it doesn't acknowledge the meaning of anything. You could say whatever you want at that point.
Here's an example. Take a rock. Give it meaning by inscribing the kabbalah on it. Now put any damn american uncultivated person in front of it, and do you think they will care? Hell no. Is this acedia? Let's say so. Now explain it to them, what the words mean, etc. Will they care anymore than before? Hell no. Why? Because they are aware of the fact that it is just words written on a rock; that was their first impression and the most authentic one as far as they are concerned. That awareness of the material dependency those holy words have attach them to a passing sense of meaninglessness. Everything becomes truly meaningless once put in a holistic perception of things, hence you could argue that the buddhist all-encompassing awareness would lead to acedia. Or you could talk about the consequences. Just try to stay away from personal opinions/beliefs.
Thanks ^_^ i love how you wrote that. I wanna change it, but then it won't be just mine :( oh well thanks though for thinking it wasn't an eye rolling cutting poem. I'm trying to sway from those, but it's hard to put a common theme into different words, ya know what i mean ^_^
I'll make sure to check oiut some of your poems, since you took the time with mine ^_^
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