We are gathered here today to lament our old friend character. Dead; due to our conformist desires to all dress in the same dark colors, shop at same annoying thrifty stores, repeatability watch the same bad plots and listen to the same recycled music.
A premature demise driven by the miracle of globalization that not only made our world smaller, but also shrank our culture, our food and quite possibly our minds. We now look and sound so similar that even the weirdest are barely distinguishable; our own mothers couldn't tell us apart.
The end clearly visible in our daily zombie march towards the grey lifeless towers where we create endless rules and marketing campaigns to bind us to our hollow existence. We huddle together claiming freedom, but fearing to use it.
What a wonderful species we will be when we can no longer detect ourselves in the masses. A dark dull army consuming our way through the last of the planet's resources. And not a character amongst us. Farewell old friend.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
Foolishly Smart
I'm such a fool. No, really I am. I keep daydreaming that if I write a really good post, one that is entertaining and worthwhile people will actually come to think that I am smart. You know, if indirectly I write that I am smart, then people will believe it, and so in the end I will be smart. But alas, no. I probably can't write something smart enough to get beyond my own foolishness.
It would be nice to be famous just for being famous. There are certainly a lot of examples of that going around; that has to be the craziest thing ever. If you can exploit being famous, then you can get the freedom to do the things in your life that you put off because you are too busy not being famous. Or does fame eat too much of your time? Perhaps, I should just settle for rich? Or do I have to get famous to find a quick way to get rich? I am certainly getting too old to spend too much time trying to get rich the slow way.
Still, I can't help thinking that people will listen to me if I am famous, and if I am smart I can figure out how to get famous, and if I do that then people will actually think I am smart. Which would be a very smart thing to accomplish, wouldn't it? Oh well. If you want, you can make me famous for having written about how foolish I am, but if you do then I am no longer foolish, I am smart, which would make you smart too, wouldn't it?
How smart is that? (Don't answer :-)
It would be nice to be famous just for being famous. There are certainly a lot of examples of that going around; that has to be the craziest thing ever. If you can exploit being famous, then you can get the freedom to do the things in your life that you put off because you are too busy not being famous. Or does fame eat too much of your time? Perhaps, I should just settle for rich? Or do I have to get famous to find a quick way to get rich? I am certainly getting too old to spend too much time trying to get rich the slow way.
Still, I can't help thinking that people will listen to me if I am famous, and if I am smart I can figure out how to get famous, and if I do that then people will actually think I am smart. Which would be a very smart thing to accomplish, wouldn't it? Oh well. If you want, you can make me famous for having written about how foolish I am, but if you do then I am no longer foolish, I am smart, which would make you smart too, wouldn't it?
How smart is that? (Don't answer :-)
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