ellenelle

I watched teevee and listened to music all day. I have absorbed pop culture, chewed it up, swallowed, digested, and used it as a building block for neurons and platelets.

I can safely say that all pop culture has to offer me can be contained in one, mature, simple sentiment from that new Malcolm in the Middle rip off.

"She just doesn't like me. I wish I could stop liking her, but I can't."

Even more bluntly:

You can't get your jollies at the expense of others.

Today I was thinking about the beauty of simplicity. I read the introduction to Jailbird, the part where someone sends Vonnegut a telegram with a simple message that sums up each and every one of his books:

"Love may fail, but courtesy will always prevail."

Theoretically, if you've read much Vonnegut, that statement should hit you with more power than a speeding oil tanker colliding with a penguin.

Information/theories/ideas all combine and condense and purify. The power of words. The power of simplicity. Assuming you have this mental backlog of messiness, pain and human history to support it.

Kurt Vonnegut, would you be proud of me?