Sniveling little fucks.
I just tried to publish a post and accidentally erased the whole thing by navigating away from the page or whatever. That might be a good thing, because it started out as an angry rant and then it just descended into a rather over-the-top and nihilistic tirade. But just to recap:
-I hate cellphones. Yes, I know, I've become one of those wanna-be contrarians who sits there saying "Waaah I hate cellphones they like fuck up our socie-" riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing "-Hello? Hey what's up, nah, just typing in my online journal...", but anyway, yeah. I just hate that element of spontanuity that it injects into life. Most people wouldn't consider that a bad thing, they typically associate spontanuity with not being uptight, and therefore associate it with fun, sex, etc., but in this case I think it is. We've lost the ability to actually value someone enough to plan around them and have meaningful conversations at meaningful times and places. Instead, you turn your cell phone off and kablam, you've missed out on someone's "spontaneous" plans, or you're stuck trying to talk to people while scurrying off to your class or internship or whatever other mindfuck occupies your day.
-And you know, just going off of that, I hate how we've just completely commodified our personalities. Resumes, applications, stupid little online profile thingies. We can't ever run the risk of having some sort of actual interaction with another human being and truly finding out what they are like, nope. Instead we just make people turn every little facet of themselves into some little advertisement that they can put out there. Everyone has to be categorized and subjected to all sorts of little tests and turned into a little conglomeration of categories and statistics and little buzzwords. We can't just be ourselves, no, we have to be walking advertisements for ourselves instead.
Maybe this is all a bad excuse for me to rationalize the fact that I have no resume or goals or social life and this is just my excuse. Well, obviously it is. But I'm not saying that I don't fall into these traps too. I don't even know what I'm saying or proposing, to be honest. Am I the only one that sees this, and is truly troubled by this? And will I still be bothered by it, or will that only last until I finally swallow my dwindling pride and hurl myself into our dysfunctional culture?
-I hate cellphones. Yes, I know, I've become one of those wanna-be contrarians who sits there saying "Waaah I hate cellphones they like fuck up our socie-" riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing "-Hello? Hey what's up, nah, just typing in my online journal...", but anyway, yeah. I just hate that element of spontanuity that it injects into life. Most people wouldn't consider that a bad thing, they typically associate spontanuity with not being uptight, and therefore associate it with fun, sex, etc., but in this case I think it is. We've lost the ability to actually value someone enough to plan around them and have meaningful conversations at meaningful times and places. Instead, you turn your cell phone off and kablam, you've missed out on someone's "spontaneous" plans, or you're stuck trying to talk to people while scurrying off to your class or internship or whatever other mindfuck occupies your day.
-And you know, just going off of that, I hate how we've just completely commodified our personalities. Resumes, applications, stupid little online profile thingies. We can't ever run the risk of having some sort of actual interaction with another human being and truly finding out what they are like, nope. Instead we just make people turn every little facet of themselves into some little advertisement that they can put out there. Everyone has to be categorized and subjected to all sorts of little tests and turned into a little conglomeration of categories and statistics and little buzzwords. We can't just be ourselves, no, we have to be walking advertisements for ourselves instead.
Maybe this is all a bad excuse for me to rationalize the fact that I have no resume or goals or social life and this is just my excuse. Well, obviously it is. But I'm not saying that I don't fall into these traps too. I don't even know what I'm saying or proposing, to be honest. Am I the only one that sees this, and is truly troubled by this? And will I still be bothered by it, or will that only last until I finally swallow my dwindling pride and hurl myself into our dysfunctional culture?
posted by Justin @ 7:38 PM
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