I miss the two-maybe-three year era of Jesus Jones (along with PWEI and the Shamen) that made the indie dance scene of the early 90's a kind of immunity shot to the full on madness of the trance/rave/techno/fill-in-your-favorite brand-of-electronica-here that would soon follow.
I have decided that this person, along with the rest of their ilk, are clearly satirists and Discordians trying to make a point. That viewpoint, although unlikely to accurately reflect what such people would report about themselves, is sometimes what keeps me from killing myself, or anyone else. Feh.
Maybe you're right (here's hoping). Maybe they're subconscious Discordians, you know? Hell maybe the kid was writing up his painfully earnest protest sign while a little voice screamed in his head - "C'mon Jesse Owens! Ring a bell, schmuck?"
Incidentally, I for one have decided that if I'm going to kill myself... I'm going to kill myself with kindness! A slow death to be sure that will hopefully take many decades to complete!
"Dude, like China is totally being uncool to the Salvador Dali Lama and shit! They're all like bringing a major hassle on them Buddhists, y'know?"
"No way... wait what's a Buddhist?"
"That's that religion the guy in the Beastie Boys worships... gawd, don't you like, know anything?"
"Ohh yeah... but so what?"
"So what? Dude, there's like major babe-age protesting the Special Olympics down at the campus... all because of China's massive uncoolness... we should totally go down there and score some hotties! We just need to make a sign that says 'we're down'... wait, I got an idea!!!"
but hey if ppl want to make a statement about the Olympics real simple do not watch it and tell the sponsors you will boycott their products just simple.
I'm sure his/her heart was in the right place and I'm just indulging in a bit of shadenfreude(sp) but, yeah... there's better ways to express ones dissatisfaction... ways that don't make you look like a complete idiot.
And this is how it happens...one day you're marching along, holding your homemade sign that no one is paying attention to since they all have their own homemade signs, when you feel the warm glow of discovery that really, deep down inside, you are an anarchist. Heee.
That or you realize you are still that idiot kid that everyone laughs at behind your back. ;)
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on 2008-07-02 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-02 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-02 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-02 04:15 pm (UTC)Incidentally, I for one have decided that if I'm going to kill myself... I'm going to kill myself with kindness! A slow death to be sure that will hopefully take many decades to complete!
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on 2008-07-02 03:33 pm (UTC)schocking but sadly not so much
kind of expected
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on 2008-07-02 04:22 pm (UTC)"Dude, like China is totally being uncool to the Salvador Dali Lama and shit! They're all like bringing a major hassle on them Buddhists, y'know?"
"No way... wait what's a Buddhist?"
"That's that religion the guy in the Beastie Boys worships... gawd, don't you like, know anything?"
"Ohh yeah... but so what?"
"So what? Dude, there's like major babe-age protesting the Special Olympics down at the campus... all because of China's massive uncoolness... we should totally go down there and score some hotties! We just need to make a sign that says 'we're down'... wait, I got an idea!!!"
And so it goes...
Well we did
on 2008-07-02 03:42 pm (UTC)Re: Well we did
on 2008-07-02 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-02 08:10 pm (UTC)That or you realize you are still that idiot kid that everyone laughs at behind your back. ;)
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on 2008-07-02 10:22 pm (UTC)