Since I no longer know how to fill my time without cigs, drugs and booze; I just caught myself watching a couple hours of mainstream media 'news outlets'...I know...not really my style but I thought to myself, "I wonder what the world (or the world portrayed by conglomerate media) looks like through an unfiltered lens nowadays." Moreover, I just wanted some tangible information on the situation in Japan as I have a lot of family over there and some of them I am quite fond of. Of course I was horrified by what I saw on most channels, and curiously enough I found myself lingering on the channel of my arch nemeses...fox news. My most contemptible puppet, Glenn Beck, was on doing his dance and I decided to watch with a heavy dose of sardonicism. But lo and fuckin behold...I found myself agreeing...with glenn...glenn fucking beck...
Now I should note that he lost me and regained my contemtp shortly after the ensuing commercial break (when he went from intelligently explaining the declining value of us currency to basically placing blame on poor colored folk being not adequately prepared..ugh). Back to the previous point though, I found myself agreeing with my most infuriating media nemesis since the rush limbaugh days, because he was talking about the grace and dignity in which the japanese were behaving during a crisis and the difference in american actions (born from the tenets and indoctrinations of egotistical systems of neo-liberalism and capitalism). They used an example of a man grabbing the last ten bottles of water at a store only to stop and reliaze what he was doing and return eight of them back on the shelf for others to share. Sure this is a small and somewhat trifle experience but it reaffirms what I constantly find myself preaching as of late....human beings are not inherently malevolent beings. Sure some people are capable of doing bad shit, but at the end of the day I flat out refuse to believe that we are all intrinsically cruel, greedy, egotistical, blood thirsty, mad dogs. Now the current paradigm of american conglomerate media would not agree (or portray) my sentiments because at the end of the day; fear sells (almost as well as sex).
Now I am not going to sit here and pretend to have the slightest clue as to how to end this cycle of madness or how to topple down the power structures of america. No, I am becoming more and more interested in waging my own sociological/epistemological war on a more mico-level these days. In other words I am tired of writing academic papers that no one but my professors will actually read, hence this blog. All I really wanted to say with this blog is that it is all to easy to get caught up in the hyped fear of the day (9/11, mad cow, nuclear meltdown, etc) and that shit like this should really just be channeled into helping us realize what is really important in our lives right now...it's not stocking up on iodine to prepare for fallout. It's taking them time to realize how lucky we are with the shit we have and the people that love us. I realize how different I sound than I did a year ago, but I don't think it's a bad thing...and now after not smoking for 2 straight days I realize all kinds of shit is possible in my life...who knows, maybe I'll find religion or something....nah just fucking with you
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