Art is about misplaced passion.
They say that Rome wasn't built in a day but they should say that Rome wasn't built by one person.
Rome, ofcource, symbolizing human civilization.
Human achievment has a great deal to do with not being able to masturbate or have sex at a given moment. All that redirected passion has to go somewhere and the result is either creative or destructive.
When it's creative the Sistine Chapel gets painted.
The Sears tower gets built.
The internet gets thought up.
And even sometimes in destruction there is creation:
When a gas chamber is thought up to save money on bullets.
When a torture device is conceived.
When someone gets Punk'd.
All of this shit just because we've spent centuries coming up with more and more ways to make it harder to tell someone 'you attract me, want to go at it?'.
Clothing.
Religon.
Marriage.
AIDS. (Oh no, ofcource it's just a coincedence that a virus suddenly came into being when humanity started overpopulating that targets the most horny segments of the population. Give me a break.)
Some people talk about a 'need to return to the natural/old ways'.
The 'old ways'. Smallpocks. Infinite mortality. Death in childbirth. Starvation. Global Poverty. Monogomy-for-lack-of-the-pill.
Oh hell yes, this all sounds GRAND to me.
No, I'm sorry, technology isn't killing us. How we choose to use it can kill us, but that's entirely up to each individual.
We need to return to the 'old ways' about as much as a bullet in the head.
As if it's even possible anyways. Even if 99% of humanity agreed to return to the 'old ways' the other 1% would end up using their technological prowess to enslave the stupid hapless bastards that gave away their freedom. In other words: North-Korea would rule earth.
So human progress is going to happen, and people are not going to return to the 'old ways'. For better or for worse once something has been invented it can't be 'uninvented' without the entire collapse of all of human civilization (in such an event you would want me nearby, btw).
So we are stuck in a civilization that has been, for centuries, premised upon sexual tension and just now shows signs of easing off that particular addiction (don't worry, we've come up with a TON of new addictions to replace it. Jesus, it's become a consumerist nightmare these days just deciding how to slowly kill yourself).
So what is going to happen? I think that the problem will solve it's-self, personally.
As people grow more content their need to be creative will ease off. This has already become very apparent to many people who see it as a bad thing.
What might eventually take place is that human society might start to evolve socially instead of technologically for once. I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE to say it but Marx might have had a point in 'Das Capitol'. Rambling drunks do sometimes speak prophecies.
Anyways, in the worst case what is going to happen is that we will all die. Considering the fact that dying is the last think on my personal 'to-do' list this possiblity doesn't trouble me too very deeply.
But then, I never plan on having children.
The rest of you who are planning of leaving victums to fate might want to think about where I was going with this before I decided to jerk off.
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I'm starting to get used to these 20 hour days I'm living. I can be lazy for a significant part of the day and still get a tone of shit taken care of everyday. The downside is that I never feel fully awake anymore. This isn't insomnia, I do sleep - just not enough.
They say that Rome wasn't built in a day but they should say that Rome wasn't built by one person.
Rome, ofcource, symbolizing human civilization.
Human achievment has a great deal to do with not being able to masturbate or have sex at a given moment. All that redirected passion has to go somewhere and the result is either creative or destructive.
When it's creative the Sistine Chapel gets painted.
The Sears tower gets built.
The internet gets thought up.
And even sometimes in destruction there is creation:
When a gas chamber is thought up to save money on bullets.
When a torture device is conceived.
When someone gets Punk'd.
All of this shit just because we've spent centuries coming up with more and more ways to make it harder to tell someone 'you attract me, want to go at it?'.
Clothing.
Religon.
Marriage.
AIDS. (Oh no, ofcource it's just a coincedence that a virus suddenly came into being when humanity started overpopulating that targets the most horny segments of the population. Give me a break.)
Some people talk about a 'need to return to the natural/old ways'.
The 'old ways'. Smallpocks. Infinite mortality. Death in childbirth. Starvation. Global Poverty. Monogomy-for-lack-of-the-pill.
Oh hell yes, this all sounds GRAND to me.
No, I'm sorry, technology isn't killing us. How we choose to use it can kill us, but that's entirely up to each individual.
We need to return to the 'old ways' about as much as a bullet in the head.
As if it's even possible anyways. Even if 99% of humanity agreed to return to the 'old ways' the other 1% would end up using their technological prowess to enslave the stupid hapless bastards that gave away their freedom. In other words: North-Korea would rule earth.
So human progress is going to happen, and people are not going to return to the 'old ways'. For better or for worse once something has been invented it can't be 'uninvented' without the entire collapse of all of human civilization (in such an event you would want me nearby, btw).
So we are stuck in a civilization that has been, for centuries, premised upon sexual tension and just now shows signs of easing off that particular addiction (don't worry, we've come up with a TON of new addictions to replace it. Jesus, it's become a consumerist nightmare these days just deciding how to slowly kill yourself).
So what is going to happen? I think that the problem will solve it's-self, personally.
As people grow more content their need to be creative will ease off. This has already become very apparent to many people who see it as a bad thing.
What might eventually take place is that human society might start to evolve socially instead of technologically for once. I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE to say it but Marx might have had a point in 'Das Capitol'. Rambling drunks do sometimes speak prophecies.
Anyways, in the worst case what is going to happen is that we will all die. Considering the fact that dying is the last think on my personal 'to-do' list this possiblity doesn't trouble me too very deeply.
But then, I never plan on having children.
The rest of you who are planning of leaving victums to fate might want to think about where I was going with this before I decided to jerk off.
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I'm starting to get used to these 20 hour days I'm living. I can be lazy for a significant part of the day and still get a tone of shit taken care of everyday. The downside is that I never feel fully awake anymore. This isn't insomnia, I do sleep - just not enough.
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I love your comment:
consumerist nightmare these days just deciding how to slowly kill yourself
Very true, very true. Also, very funny- yet sad.
Lif is the process of dying (which is sad), but it's funny that we pay for it (Cigarettes, alcohol, heroin, McD's).
But what else would we do?
I've asked myself that numerous times without a real answer.
Are you a fan of Sylvia Plath ?
She's one of my favorite poets:
:Lady Lazarus:
42-43 "Dying/Is an art, like everthing else"
It's funny how you phrase misplaced passion.
As if the sexual passion you felt while having sex/love/etc. converted into a tangible, visual object.
Atleast I read it that way from the statement at the bottom of your text.
Interesting.