Thank Goodness
i was typing away at what appears to be my life’s work, and i was more than halfway through and it was under 5000 words. Now I am 44, and have spent 23 years, 276 months, approximately 1,104 weeks and over 8000 days as an adult. My production has been less than prolific. A word a day or more honestly many days when pen was not put to paper.
But when i think about it I only realized poems for the shaw at the turn of this century 2001.
On a Different Note
I see writing as a worthwhile practice and to be honest a seemingly necessary antidote for my mental agility…
if i could write what was going on… even though it was rarely discussed… i could salve the fracture….
Famous.
The celebrity culture is shabby.
An advertising man, Andy Warhol started this endless marketing campaign
A long descent of fame for the sake of fame…
call it what it is “marketing”…
lady ga ga’s talent is not commenstrutive with her popularity…
as the great Canadian author Douglas Copeland said,
Education
is a game and if you know how to game it…you’ll get A’s.
Fame
is a game and if you know how to game it…you’ll get famous…
This is not totally true…some people are just caught in circumstance
Copelands’ personal
i narrative is a sign of the times
he ironically helped create—the x generation
Nietzsche (N) says,
“the causa sui is the best self contraction that has been conceived so far, it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic; but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense.”
Now why would the ultimate expression of self—true purpose, the reason for being-- be considered extravagant pride?…
….and is this not what we aim for…or am i only speaking for myself?
“A rape and perversion of logic…”
if every one thinks they are special or have a unique purpose…and special and unique mean different/better then logically would their cannot be a majority…yet for the vastness of history most people have pretty well done the same thing and lived very ordinary and a few years back, very difficult lives…and if the striving is towards one up man ship as it is clearly is in liberal classes the thinking is more strategic than creative…
a causa sui is a mission not a purpose…
(N)
believed in the elite
the fame culture
reinforces that belief…
but for different reasons
move a mans heart
not his reason…
many mediocre post modernists?
It is a sign of our their philosophy…
moral relativism…ads nauseum
signifier, signified, insignificant
we get the point…
everyone has a subjective view…
i.e. first person.
Literature
Canadian lit is a game
the winners become writers’ in residence
and speak at some interesting conferences…
Now that is fine…
but it doesn’t seem to make much difference.
(verb) game nature…
she won’t play
what happens there is real
no way to (verb)game
building a fence out of posts and cedar
now make it a game (noun)…
but with physical work
the thinking is different.
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