6 ene 2003
The road to normality is deceptively easy. Sometimes I find myself so far along it; I am afraid.
I spent most of the day with Elyse. She woke me up at the ungodly hour of 8 am, yes, you know it, the morning. Not really early, but my sleep schedule lately has been... nonexistant. I really need to work on that.
I hate the radio. Almost more than anything else I hate, it is Clear Channel Communications & the few other national radio conglomerates. I hate the artists that they play, I hate their DJs, I hate their bussiness. Above all else, I hate advertising. Advertising is fundamently morally wrong, and there is no way you can get around that. It may be well written, it may be cute, it may actually be selling you something you'd want anyway. But it is coercian, and coercian is the worst thing humans have ever done to each other.
Okay, okay, it's a very mild form of coercian. Not like slavery, or prostition, or bribery, or the multitude of things we do, but it is coercian. Some say civilization is built on coercian; i personally think it's built on alcohol, but that's another story. Coercian is wrong. There is no compatibility between it & compassion. None. They're simply irreconsilable. Impossible to compromise. "Compassionate Conservative" is a contradiction in terms. But that, too, is another story.
So, in case you couldn't tell, I listened to the radio more today than since that one time in 7th grade when I discovered this thing we call "music". Elyse likes the radio a lot. I can't understand it. Okay, another gripe: the lyrics? WTF?
"she fucking hates me" well, we all fucking hate ourselves. Why else do we live in cities? smoke? drive cars?
"sweat till all my clothes come off" i'll show you clothes come off. But I have a better idea, ay. Think till our memes melt off. It's truly possible!!
It truly must be possible; or we are all truly screwed. ¶ 21:10
I spent most of the day with Elyse. She woke me up at the ungodly hour of 8 am, yes, you know it, the morning. Not really early, but my sleep schedule lately has been... nonexistant. I really need to work on that.
I hate the radio. Almost more than anything else I hate, it is Clear Channel Communications & the few other national radio conglomerates. I hate the artists that they play, I hate their DJs, I hate their bussiness. Above all else, I hate advertising. Advertising is fundamently morally wrong, and there is no way you can get around that. It may be well written, it may be cute, it may actually be selling you something you'd want anyway. But it is coercian, and coercian is the worst thing humans have ever done to each other.
Okay, okay, it's a very mild form of coercian. Not like slavery, or prostition, or bribery, or the multitude of things we do, but it is coercian. Some say civilization is built on coercian; i personally think it's built on alcohol, but that's another story. Coercian is wrong. There is no compatibility between it & compassion. None. They're simply irreconsilable. Impossible to compromise. "Compassionate Conservative" is a contradiction in terms. But that, too, is another story.
So, in case you couldn't tell, I listened to the radio more today than since that one time in 7th grade when I discovered this thing we call "music". Elyse likes the radio a lot. I can't understand it. Okay, another gripe: the lyrics? WTF?
"she fucking hates me" well, we all fucking hate ourselves. Why else do we live in cities? smoke? drive cars?
"sweat till all my clothes come off" i'll show you clothes come off. But I have a better idea, ay. Think till our memes melt off. It's truly possible!!
It truly must be possible; or we are all truly screwed. ¶ 21:10
