thought this was too good not to pass up. this is a response to reading "lady chatterly's lover" and being fed up with alcoholic, sexual-themes-oriented writers and their influence on culture. what they write is a lie! i think is my general outcry. just some person's perspective! yet we buy into it! why?! enjoy these not at all articulate thoughts on the pervasive and wrong ideas perpetuated in culture and media.
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Nobody really tells you, but after awhile, you realize the duplicity. It’s a tad unfair and condescending: “oh you believed in that trap. You should have known better. Not our fault.”
Yes, your fault. You purposely set out to deceive. You so mired in it, that it became a sort of honesty. Smoke and mirrors of truth, tripping us all up, and leaving us hurt and confused and worse off than we started.
It’s the story of Pinnocchio. We are all being made into jacka***s. Modern culture, philosophy, literature, music, 89% of it is sh**. The 5% is earnestness, so that gets merit. The other 6%: some combination of "there is something in the smoke and mirrors that starts out as real" and "a merit of existence sometimes gives dignity." Now what I am talking about is substance. Not execution. Not skill. Not craft. Not method of expression. That is a separate category and that is of value.
I am taking fault with what we’re producing. We no closer to our noble ideals* that when we started.
I think it’s fair to say that most writers of fictions or artists of any kind, don’t know anything better than any of the rest of us. So then why do we put so much merit in the messages of what they have to say? Why do we buy their work? What in their art speaks to us? What of their work to we take in and let influence our souls? Books we read. Lyrics we sing. Movies we watch. Paintings we critique.
Art is manipulable. It can manipulate us. Which is fine. As long as we are well aware of it. And know how to use it for good and not let it defile us.
Oo. Now you should be wondering why purity is important if I just used a word like defile. And I say to you! Ah a! My life’s passion and pursuit right there! Let me explain a world view of mine! Let me extrapolate the finesse in which human nature and character must be nurtured so that it will not be destroyed nor become a destroyer!
First, to be on the same page, we must agree there is a “Problem of Evil” in the world. Or, you have to admit, there is a “Good” in the world. I am not too worried about definitions at the moment. I am more concerned that you can either know or articulate a feeling that Things are Wrong in the World. Hurt is an evil, and people hurt everywhere, and in our human natures this is a negative thing. We do not like it. We want to avoid it. ( I will not go off topic, but feel free to pause and reflect on the animal kingdom and ponder why do humans react as they do to pain and suffering and whether or not the other beasts and creatures of this earth react in the same manner).
We as humans classify things into good or bad categories. What is good for one, may not be good for another human. What is bad to one, is not bad to another. Insert examples of the rich having good that the poor does not. The healthy versus the sick. The intelligent versus the challenged academically. Some have, others do not. Thus different standards of good and bad.
But that means STANDARDS EXIST. We all have a sense of right and wrong in a situation. Doesn’t mean our sense of what is right happens or is the right one, but we do sense wrong and we do sense right.
Implying that they exist. My argument I am getting to wants to talk more about the modes of sensations or how we perceive right and wrong, and how these are distorted and messed up. And there in lies the means of manipulation in so many areas of our lives.
.... tbc
* noble ideas about undoing sexual repression i believe was what i was referencing. i am all for not being repressed, but i think what has been achieved is actually another form of sexual repression... true sexual freedom and expression can only be found in marriage, imho.
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