People Talk about Stupid Shit

I've always wanted to read Milton's Paradise Lost. Even the title alone sounds like something that would be interesting. The concept of having everything perfect and then losing everything hits me pretty hard for some reason. The Good Earth's portrayal at the perfect symbiotic relationship would be an example of a paradise, at least in the context of the events in the novel. Late on when the marriage is spoiled with a concubine, it was lost and less perfect for good. I also relate to this theme to my life as well. This is nothing idiosyncratic and is far too common to be really worth thinking about. Everything that is lost seems to be more apparent to me than anything that is good now. Talking less, doing less things, noticing less. At the end of it I know this is just an illusion through change. Considering change, nothing is lost. Everything is here for good and only constantly improving. They have to be improving because the only point they stop improving is when they stop existing. For something to be in a state later than it was, it needs to improve itself to the conditions of everything around it. The rate at which something improves can be changed.

I'd never write fiction.

Nature makes us feel more altruistic (assuming you think altruism exists). It makes us more focused on the whole world and generally more optimistic. Studies confirm this and any one can feel it themselves. Maybe it is less of a well known sensation now but it has been apparent throughout history. Bradbury observes the value of nature and taking the time to take things slow, walk, and think externally. His book, Fahrenheit 451, accurately depicts a social problem that I'm readily aware of. People who take walks in 451 are seen as weird and an outcast. People who even talk casually are seen the same way. The only acceptable thing to talk about is the immediate. Describe more products, gossip on more celebrities. Catch in the Rye's and 451's main characters both have problems with cars. Talk about the MPG, the latest models, all the great materialistic upgrades. Their main problem is the uselessness and shallowness of this discussion and it is especially endangering when you consider how much time is wasted contemplating this nonsense. Of course, cars can be substituted with anything: make-up, celebrities, foot ball, video games. Anything that is an easy topic to talk about and bloat yourself with undeserved confidence: Musical instrument technicalities, an artist's person (Eric Clapton, Richard James), and, you know - sex. All wastes of cognitive energy and which cause depression when it super saturates someone. I might be wrong with that last statement though. People don't really see their own deaths. 451 is right when it says the problem is the people and the government only does not help them.

But people need to do those things to have networks, and they need networks to win.

And everyone needs to win.

Edit: nm

GO read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Quick read. Addresses what you are talking about in a well rounded way. I assume you've read 1984 if you have read The catcher in the rye and paradise lost.

The good earth is a great book.

  On 3/31/2010 at 4:36 PM, Brandi_B said:

Edit: nm

 

GO read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Quick read. Addresses what you are talking about in a well rounded way. I assume you've read 1984 if you have read The catcher in the rye and paradise lost.

 

The good earth is a great book.

are you two intentionally just listing the books from the tatoo on the guy's arm from "look at this fucking hipster?"

read we

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic

Gasset's Revolt of the Masses

this book alone turned me from a pussy faggy liberal idealist into an elitist misanthrope while keeping me left-wing, and also made me realise that the Enlightenment was uniquely Western, inherently Christian and generally a pile of shit

READ IT (no hipster would ever have the balls to)

The hipster's bible:

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grate bouk wuold raed agian

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  On 3/31/2010 at 4:42 PM, Fred McGriff said:

  On 3/31/2010 at 4:36 PM, Brandi_B said:

Edit: nm

 

GO read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Quick read. Addresses what you are talking about in a well rounded way. I assume you've read 1984 if you have read The catcher in the rye and paradise lost.

 

The good earth is a great book.

 

are you two intentionally just listing the books from the tatoo on the guy's arm from "look at this fucking hipster?"

No we were just going by the books we've seen in your bathroom book caddy.

BING

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You never know with boris, but I was actually being serious I haven't seen this hipster tattoo you speak of. =D

  On 3/31/2010 at 7:08 PM, ezkerraldean said:

this book alone turned me from a pussy faggy liberal idealist into an elitist misanthrope while keeping me left-wing

I would only read this shit if you could run it through a literary auto-tuner.

I've found that every single human passion can be reduced to ridicule only with a change of perspective.

  On 3/31/2010 at 8:34 PM, lumpenprol said:

  On 3/31/2010 at 7:08 PM, ezkerraldean said:

this book alone turned me from a pussy faggy liberal idealist into an elitist misanthrope while keeping me left-wing

awesome

  On 3/31/2010 at 8:55 PM, Yegg said:

  On 3/31/2010 at 8:34 PM, lumpenprol said:

  On 3/31/2010 at 7:08 PM, ezkerraldean said:

this book alone turned me from a pussy faggy liberal idealist into an elitist misanthrope while keeping me left-wing

 

awesome

yeah guys it's well cool