HATERZ UNITE!
I don't know what it is, but participating in daily life is making me so sick lately. All it takes is a trip to the local shopping mall and I get so depressed. I remember my best friend in high school always bitching about "teeny boppers and their stupid trends" and, while I sympathised at the time, I always felt her almost bitter tone was a bit over the top. Now I find myself consumed with this almost pathological aversion to news, culture, youth culture, trends, current affairs etc.
On one hand, I do genuinely believe that this age is, to put it in hyperbolic newspeak, the most souless, self-absorbed, vacuous stretch of time in history (you know, because I would know, I was there) But due to what we all know of older generations (the "in my day..." syndrome) I suppose I have to concede that my aversion is probably not only subjective, but also, as degrading as it is...normal. I'M GOING THROUGH A PHASE!
I'm attacking the present and comparing the future with the past in some territorial fit of sub-conscious evolutionary jealousy. And just as my *forefathers did before me.
(*in the true spirit of every other cliche-ridden essay in history)
It's so sad.
Yet...I do believe that there are certain characteristics about this time that we all find commonly disturbing. PLEASE...help me justify my angst.
1) That hollow feeling that "everything has been done". Or why else are we surrounded by so much repetition? It seems trends in The Arts have been milked to the point that personal-values have become the new hem-length.
2) The national dream is to win the lottery.
3) (My own personal favourite) "I don't like hardwork...it doesn't feel good."
4) Over-stimulation/concentration:
Oh sorry! I think I just shrank your attention span another size while you were scrolling down.
Basically...noone really cares. Do you? I don't.
Why should I? Give me one good reason not to go and buy that J-LO tanktop in every f**king color.
It might well be the most purposeful thing i'll ever do in my life.
On one hand, I do genuinely believe that this age is, to put it in hyperbolic newspeak, the most souless, self-absorbed, vacuous stretch of time in history (you know, because I would know, I was there) But due to what we all know of older generations (the "in my day..." syndrome) I suppose I have to concede that my aversion is probably not only subjective, but also, as degrading as it is...normal. I'M GOING THROUGH A PHASE!
I'm attacking the present and comparing the future with the past in some territorial fit of sub-conscious evolutionary jealousy. And just as my *forefathers did before me.
(*in the true spirit of every other cliche-ridden essay in history)
It's so sad.
Yet...I do believe that there are certain characteristics about this time that we all find commonly disturbing. PLEASE...help me justify my angst.
1) That hollow feeling that "everything has been done". Or why else are we surrounded by so much repetition? It seems trends in The Arts have been milked to the point that personal-values have become the new hem-length.
2) The national dream is to win the lottery.
3) (My own personal favourite) "I don't like hardwork...it doesn't feel good."
4) Over-stimulation/concentration:
Oh sorry! I think I just shrank your attention span another size while you were scrolling down.
Basically...noone really cares. Do you? I don't.
Why should I? Give me one good reason not to go and buy that J-LO tanktop in every f**king color.
It might well be the most purposeful thing i'll ever do in my life.