Yes, all very funny. Very witty. Very true.
But.
There is a bit of snootiness to this thread - all those silly people with their silly trivial lives.
Face it, the vast majority live silly trivial lives, dominated by money, power and superficialness and who are generally uninterested in caring for one another or their surroundings, no matter how they are called and/or labelled.
Some of us may (very well) disdain 'celebrity culture'. But we still have our celebrities who we adore - Ray, Mors, Lars, Lofty...even...Bear?
No, I do not. I really liked what mr. Mears did originally, befor the whole BC-madness erupted. So do I with mr. Kochanski and many others in the past. Why? because they have something to say that makes sense, matters to me and makes me think about mine and our ways.
The rest is just a bunch of commercial tv-clowns to me....
So, some of you don't care what the celebrities in those magazines are wearing and doing. Well...Ray is wearing a very good Swandri, have you seen the style of knife that Mors uses..?
No, I have not and I don't care....
You think all the 'normal' people couldn't survive in your chosen environment? Seems to me like some of you couldn't live in theirs. Ah, but you probably don't care for their world and their lives. But I dare say they feel the same about yours.
Correction.... I do not WANT to live in their enviroment and I sure as hell hope they would perrish in mine, unless they were willing to be part of the bigger picture and do what is right, without someone telling them what to do, eat, like, wear, watch etc.
There's no difference between you and them, no matter how hard you try to con yourself otherwise.
Yes, there is, but there will always be some Johnny-be-good popping up trying to tell me otherwise. The exact reason why is not known to me, but I have a suspicion that it is, so he can tell us how bad we are and he's not...... or maybe it's just because said Johnny dislikes people who stand out of a crowd...
I take a good, hard look at my and my family's life and I see what I think is wrong and should be corrected, but unfortunately I am not able to change all of that.... yet! Why? Because, like everybody else I too am a slave of this moneycontrolled society. In this aspect you are right, but I am fighting it and I will break free from it.
No, I am not alienated from the modern world around me, but I choose to be as less part of it as possible.
Does this all make me arrogant? Don't know, don't care.....
Does this make me intolerant? Don't know, don't care......
Does this make me antisocial? Don't know, don't care.......
Did I offend anyone? Don't know, don't care. But, maybe, just maybe someone, somewhere starts thinking about it for themselves....
This is the way I feel and what I, at this moment, think is the closest I can get to the truth.
Do you want to educate me or tell me otherwise?
I'm all ears, but don't bring me any of that "you're like everybody else"-nonsense, because I KNOW that that is NOT true.....
But what threads like this do to me, is show that there are still people out there who at least think a little like me and that makes me feel like there is still hope for this egotistical, money- and powercontroled, non-brain-or-common-sense-using society, to which, in my personal belief, at least 75% of the modern man belongs....
It is people like us, who ARE different, because we think outside the box and it is people like us who DO see things differently, that we should try to make others understand that there's more in this world than celebrityrolemodels, filled up bankaccounts and a superficial social status........
Sorry.....
I got a bit carried away.....
but sometimes my blood starts boiling a bit......
Rant over.....for now....