Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 5:56pm.
Unfortunately, as you pointed out, we are living in an stupid age where an all-influencing media is stupifying men and women of all ages in all areas, but probably most devastatingly to our common happiness is the effect it's had on relationships. For women, the "Sex-in-the-city" lifestyle of revolving-door relationships, expensive tastes and you-go-gurrlll selfishness has been immortalised into their group-think. This generation's mainstream is basically lost.
Although you'd have to be pretty damn lucky and also pretty damn perceptive to find a "soulmate" in this particular time, one consolation is that, due to the same moral-eroding media, casual sex is readily available. I say, forget the endless crap and go strictly with the hookers, far less bullshit, far more honest, probably far cheaper and possibly more intimate. I've stared at as many real-life examples of long-term "marriages" as I could stand until my eyes bled and my brain detonated... I'd rather give birth through my penis.
One cheery thing that comes to mind when I think of the stooopid media is that it's basically self-limiting. Chicks who follow the I-wanna-stay-free-for-me lifestyle have less (if any) kids, and usually very late in life. They're definetly below replacement level so hopefully one glorious day they'll just all be extinct and the folks who for whatever reason aren't stupified by the media can multiply in peace. We can always hope.
"The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clown-mobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns. We perceive God to be an elderly comedian. Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead!"
-- James Howard Kunstler, Home from Nowhere
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Unfortunately, as you pointed out, we are living in an stupid age where an all-influencing media is stupifying men and women of all ages in all areas, but probably most devastatingly to our common happiness is the effect it's had on relationships. For women, the "Sex-in-the-city" lifestyle of revolving-door relationships, expensive tastes and you-go-gurrlll selfishness has been immortalised into their group-think. This generation's mainstream is basically lost.
Although you'd have to be pretty damn lucky and also pretty damn perceptive to find a "soulmate" in this particular time, one consolation is that, due to the same moral-eroding media, casual sex is readily available. I say, forget the endless crap and go strictly with the hookers, far less bullshit, far more honest, probably far cheaper and possibly more intimate. I've stared at as many real-life examples of long-term "marriages" as I could stand until my eyes bled and my brain detonated... I'd rather give birth through my penis.
One cheery thing that comes to mind when I think of the stooopid media is that it's basically self-limiting. Chicks who follow the I-wanna-stay-free-for-me lifestyle have less (if any) kids, and usually very late in life. They're definetly below replacement level so hopefully one glorious day they'll just all be extinct and the folks who for whatever reason aren't stupified by the media can multiply in peace. We can always hope.
"The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clown-mobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns. We perceive God to be an elderly comedian. Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead!"
-- James Howard Kunstler, Home from Nowhere