A creative masterpiece you say. Or is it really a sack of hay. There are somethings that I believe none of us will ever quite understand. A reason for poems, a walk for peace. Sometimes, you just have to go with it.
Living in the moment is one of the hardest things a human being raised in my generation can do. We are stuck in a mastermind contusion of ideological impatientness. The trend began with napster. at first you say, why pay when i don't have to? Then, why albums when I can just download the best song(s). (i use S in parenthesis because of the many a times "wonderfull" pop artists of the late 90s and "early millenium" only had one good song to album ratio) which entails a neverending cycle of recurring one hit wonders (britney spears, ricky martin)
I ask, why come out with an album to make a hit song?
(you know discussing the consipracy that the "big-bad" record companies are withholding the "hits" and using the filler as a means to aquire money; i mean thats why we all started downloading music in the first place, right?) lol
so we now have taken the art out of music, generalizing an artist to only one song, making the margin between musician and image even blurrier....You know its easy when a pop artist has a hit song to watch his music video (to your own shock, disbelief, and despair) a thousand times and then associate an image with him.
nevertheless, we can no longer listen to full albums because quite frankly, were too cheap to purchase them and only have a brief handfull of the artists songs at our disposal; a perfect mix to contract the worst disease: "auditory ADHD" (as i am officialy dubbing it) and switch songs, at will, random, and to the very irritation of a seasoned listener.
now we always need something catcy cause you know we dont listen to full albums now; cheap thrills. Visa ve, rap music. But thats another story. You may ask, so what? I cant listen to a full album or some bullshit, napster, whatever man. BUT! it transcends into the very world we call real. Now, when someones talking and they elaborate on a point and well you know blah blah blah...your mind just moves on, BAM! new topic crank en em out like steel in a coal mine.
so your pretiousness takes hold, "fuck other people if im not paying attention there just rambling" (chill bitchy girl/guy from an overly-wealthy suburban housing development) well im throwin you a curveball Linda-Sue. Due to your Auditory ADHD and (now) inherinit poor listening skills your mind wonders to creative depths unparalled to the pre-millenial mind but you only act at the metaphysical realm, "Great, Man!" you say in an airy dreamer voice. No sir, its not that your so overly intellectual you cant keep up with all the "bullshit" i.e. accepted truths, society. Your just to damn lazy to do the research.
oh and even if you did do the (dreaded) "research" there still these assholes who say wikipedia is an "unreliable source" .............the absurdity of the possibility of this truth upsets me from within.
so this "light-bulb" or "micro-wave" generation just dosent cut it with old school intellectuals. so, what....yeah i guess soooo what. i blame the internet. anything we want is a literal flick of the finger, a snap of the mouse; whichever be thy ways.
my next question....
is this a bad thing? i think so, which is why i deemed it necessary to mention in the life and times of the honorable Jose Luiz. I have some problems with my beloved "suedo hippie" generation. we dont read enough. we dont discuss enough. we dont THINK enough. its not just the conformists.............assholes. its everyones problem cause when it comes down to it, were just one generation of human beings co-existing on an overly populated and poorly managed chunk of rock spiralling around some huge empty space.
Speaking from the grim underbelly of the resistance,
Jose Santa Maria Anna Louis
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Your use of quotations and parentheses is truly a wonder to behold.
ReplyDeleteYou are indeed a craftsman, Mr. Santa Maria Anna Louis
maybe it's the post-stoned-burned-out mind state I find myself in with ever-increasing frequency, but I have considered your statements, mr jose luiz, with a level of thoughtfulness and sheer intellectuality that I refuse to grant to most. and it has sparked some related interests that I believe are relevant. mainly: fuck the haters. don't get trapped in the downward spiral of social frustration just because you can; it never ends well. the thing about non-conformity and that whole social 'movement' in general that makes it such bullshit is that it's just way too easy to dismiss the opinions of the majority without even understanding what they may stand for. i've seen it in person, i've seen it in history, and i will see it in the not-too-distant-future. it's hypocrisy at its best. this bullshit counter-culture that believes they see society differently, that thinks their worthless criticism actually means something.
ReplyDeletewake up hippy, wake up hipster, wake up emo scene kid. you're just like everyone else. your absurdist elitism doesn't mean a fucking thing to people outside your exclusive social group. maybe if it did somebody would have listened to you a long time ago. maybe mainstream is mainstream because it makes the most sense to people, because rational people wake up and realize there's more to life then bitching about everything.
is social criticism valuable? of course, but only in the hands of those that are truly motivated to change things for the better. there's nothing revolutionary about being different for the sake of being different. we've seen generation after generation how transparent that philosophy is... our parents were hippies, and look at them now. they are the very definition of mainstream that they once spoke out so adamantly against. Coincidence? I think not. which brings me to my next point: the generation gap fostered by technological change.
this is-been, has-been, and will-be a fact of society until innovation comes to a standstill or immortality is achieved. what it all comes down to is acceptance and utilization of technological change, something that older generations are beginning to achieve, but will never fully come to terms with. we don't remember a world without computers. we don't remember a world where trig was done with slide rules and broadcast TV was entertaining. but our parents do. and as long as that remains a false feeling of wisdom will preside over them.
you can say we don't THINK enough. you can say that the advent of the spell-check has destroyed our ability to spell, and that the internet has rendered traditional research skills obsolete. well, you know what? it HAS. but it doesn't make a difference, because none of that shit matters anymore.
we are entering an information age. a time where anything I want to know, anytime, anywhere, is literally at the tips of my fingers (iphone). a time where once-redundant tasks will be simplified and outsourced from our brains to computers. and with this comes a loss of skills that once were necessary in the academic and professional world. SO WHAT? shit like this happens. knowledge isn't going away, it's simply being restructured. deal with it.
older generations simply lack the ability to 'get with the times' because the lingering memories of their youth inhibit whatever ability they may have had to accept the fact their way of life is dying. the heart of the issue is the misunderstanding and poor utilization of information technology by a graying middle-age generation which is now struggling to maintain socioeconomic control.
and with these thoughts, I have crossed into the equally-pretentious online world of blogging, a realm filled with wannabe dissidents and journalists and reporters who thrive on the false pretense that someone actually gives a fuck. what a monumental occasion in my life.
speaking from the rotting carcass of the former resistance,
_______ ___________
(name removed for anonymity)