"And I swear that I don't have a gun." -Nirvana
I am having to call shenanigans on the whole human race at this point. It has just gotten far too ridiculous. I don't have cable and therefore rarely watch TV. And the occassions in which I do are simply reminders of why I don't. TV is a circus. Mostly because TV is just a portal into our society and our society is a circus. Don't believe me? Sit in a mall and watch people walk by. Catch a few bits of conversation. Actors. All of them. Wonderful, Oscar-worthy actors. Walking around tossing out phrases like "It was good to see you again" and smiling while in their head they were jokingly begining an acceptance speach.
Why do we bullshit each other? Why are we required to lie?
We are far more free legally than we are socially.
How many people within your particular circle know exactly how you feel about them?
And if you told them would it change things?
In an ideal society it wouldn't. But thats not what we have created for ourselves now is it? No, in this age of personal computers, horseless carriages and two-ply toilet paper our society stands as a tattered monument to what could have been. Instead we have a nation with a rather high percentage of people falling under the category that the medical community refers to as "fucked up". A redneck who thinks that light-switches and revolvers are interchangeable. A repressed housewife about to explode like canned foods locked in a hot car. A highschool jock tweaked on steroids totalling the Corvette that his father gave him for forgetting his birthday by wrapping it around a tree while trying to outrun his fear of his own sexuality.
Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. We all know it. But no one wants to show theirs first. So they bullshit. And as a result people cry, people die alone, people sleep on the streets, people spend years upon years with someone that they don't know.
This topic recently arose during a discussion via e-mail with Ted:
"The point is, we are all human. We all make mistakes, so why should people go around hiding them? Thats like walking around in a nudist colony covering your dick with your hands."
More on this later. Right now I am intoxicated and feel like reading on my balcony wearing a towel and Santa-hat.-SLP
Why do we bullshit each other? Why are we required to lie?
We are far more free legally than we are socially.
How many people within your particular circle know exactly how you feel about them?
And if you told them would it change things?
In an ideal society it wouldn't. But thats not what we have created for ourselves now is it? No, in this age of personal computers, horseless carriages and two-ply toilet paper our society stands as a tattered monument to what could have been. Instead we have a nation with a rather high percentage of people falling under the category that the medical community refers to as "fucked up". A redneck who thinks that light-switches and revolvers are interchangeable. A repressed housewife about to explode like canned foods locked in a hot car. A highschool jock tweaked on steroids totalling the Corvette that his father gave him for forgetting his birthday by wrapping it around a tree while trying to outrun his fear of his own sexuality.
Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. We all know it. But no one wants to show theirs first. So they bullshit. And as a result people cry, people die alone, people sleep on the streets, people spend years upon years with someone that they don't know.
This topic recently arose during a discussion via e-mail with Ted:
"The point is, we are all human. We all make mistakes, so why should people go around hiding them? Thats like walking around in a nudist colony covering your dick with your hands."
More on this later. Right now I am intoxicated and feel like reading on my balcony wearing a towel and Santa-hat.-SLP
posted by Seth Parham at 10:17 PM
1 Comments:
well i dunno, man... some people really are genuinly happy to see others. most, though, i will agree with you, are pussies. nobody wants to show any weaknesses, and it's sad because that's the way we truly connect with each other. through our shared faults.
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