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paperninja

So am I worth listening to yet? Huh huh huh? Am I? Huh?

Jun 24, 2007 15:23

There was a great moment about five months ago when I realized that I could post anything to LJ. I didn't have to have a coherent, fully formed thought or something interesting to say- nothing! It was great. I could just freaking post to my journal with total gibberish- my usual unformed opinion, my lousy grammar- dude! No one could stop me. ( Read more... )

my bad attitude, the way i am, kill it with fire, bitching

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paperninja June 27 2007, 01:32:15 UTC

I think he was trying to schlep his book or something. I wonder if I should get it from the library for the sheer lulz factor. But I'll probably just end up throwing it at the wall.

woekitten June 25 2007, 00:47:55 UTC

Well shoot, look at all these fuckwad writers who refuse to die off and won't shut up in the meantime about these awful computers that give everyone delusions of being a writer. Horrors!

paperninja June 27 2007, 01:33:44 UTC

Maybe they'll all be dead in another 20 years. *crosses fingers* Except then there will be new ones around. I don't think human beings can ever be free of The Fucktards Among Us.

joyinthedance June 25 2007, 04:12:46 UTC

Hmf. Fucktard.

Obviously I disagree with him as much as you do, and I think that the way things are going the internet will only increase as a democratizing force in the cultural realm.

But I really hope we don't all turn into Mr. and Mrs. Elite Peope. D: I would say there's no way in hell, except that the current Mr. Elite People were like, the baby boomers! The generation of activists and hippies! The guys that talked about revolution and coined the phrase "don't trust anyone over 30!" And now they're telling us we somehow shouldn't be producing or consuming amateur art? Art by the once-paramout People? Hm. >>

We'll prove them all wrong of course.

paperninja June 27 2007, 01:37:04 UTC

Yeah. It was the disturbing yuppification of the hippies that made me think that some of our generation are going to turn into this sort of asshole. If I were in a bitchier mood, I might suggest that they would be the sort of person who got their start writing me nasty emails about how Sasuke Is Gay And Hates Girls U Stupid Bitch(tm) and No One Better Write Hinata With A Spine Dammit Or She's OOC(tm).

I can't shake the feeling that our generation is going to produce some serious fucktards once we're all fifty and sixty and running the show.

That's like good old Dr. Hendrix and his "webscabs" rant bellatrys June 25 2007, 13:31:55 UTC

see here for the original manifesto - a friend and I were just talking about this IRL yesterday in re the creativity you see all over now , due to the internet, and he came up again. Yes, it's true about Sturgeon's Law, but you know what else? The more stuff there *is* out there to choose from, the more *good* stuff there is as well. Which is what they don't seem to get.

I agree that the Venn overlap of people mistaking "What I Like Because It's What I Was Exposed To As A Kid" for "What Is Intrinsically Superior Art" out of a combination of utter subjectivism and age-snobbery (leaving aside Dr. Hendrix and his "What I Make For Sale" jealousy aspect), and those who are crypto-racists worrying about "jungle" influences and the Decline of [White] Western Culture™, is probably a lot bigger than the ones who rant about it openly on Occidental Quarterly and probably (well, actually, certainly imo) includes a lot of people who fancy themselves to be enlightened and liberal (but the nice moderate kind, not the scary dirty hippie radical

Re: That's like good old Dr. Hendrix and his "webscabs" rant paperninja June 27 2007, 01:41:08 UTC

Oh, hey. ^^ I didn't know people who I friended but didn't know ever came back here to read my LJ. Cool.

There was definitely some crypto-racism afoot with this fellow. I wish the NPR reporter had pushed him harder about it. It really did just seem to be a case of Well When *I* Was A Kid(tm) and Hey You Philistines Buy My Book And Listen To ME Because I Know Best!(tm).

One of my U2 books even has a introduction where the author warns off 'those aristocrats who fall to the floor in convulsions whenever rock music is described as art.' If all this snobbery wasn't so damned stupid, it would be entertaining.

it's one of those iffy things... bellatrys June 27 2007, 14:39:11 UTC

There's a lot of "you kids!" discomfort with *any* change in it, but depending, there's also a lot of "eek!they're going native" in it, too, which all gets (heh) whitewashed over even in our cultural histories, of why the Cultural Gatekeepers of Yore freaked out over jazz and rock-and-roll back in the day (hint: it wasn't just TEH SEXAYY) only sometimes the subtext comes right out into the open.

More often it's like, huh, how come the conservative Culture Vultures only seem to freak out about rap & hip-hop, and not about grunge metal - or techno , which personally makes me want to commit GBH against whoever's playing it, evoking as it does (at least all of it that I've heard) the mellifluous sounds of mosquitos, power tools, and dentist drills...but techno's pretty much a WASP-y thing, like grunge, and doesn't register on their Western Purity Alert radar.

I didn't know people who I friended but didn't know ever came back here to read my LJ. Cool.::waves hi:: I try to read my flist & comment when I have something useful to add, but ( ... )