driftspace

I just read this great quote from Stevie Wonder that said something about how we live in a world where people are more comfortable looking at others than they are really giving themselves a good look. (He's not just talking about mirror time).

I'm right there with you, Stevie -- but what's the next step? It's interesting that he's blind and yet bears witness to so much more than your average person does.

Plato said kind of the same thing: "The unexamined life is not worth living," but he couldn't anticipate the way we live outside ourselves today -- Plato didn't anticipate reality television.

Did anyone expect this -- to live in a world so superficial and shallow that we don't know ourselves anymore?

I think Marx did. Marx wrote about commodity fetishism and how capitalism turns everything -- even human beings and personalities -- into something that can be sold and marketed.

Again: hey Marx, what do we do now? You've proven to be a fine oracle, but how do we get ourselves out of this situation?

Nietzsche wrote about that, and so did Confucius. As much as I read and re-read their works I can't find the answer.

I don't know how much longer my membership to suicidegirls.com will last. It only serves to make me feel . . . something undesirable. Now that I am unemployed -- the record store finally closed it's doors -- I don't know if it's the wisest way to spend money.

Where is it taking me anyway?
Let's chalk it up to being a hopeless (or hopeful?) romantic.