insight_and_redundancy


	insight_and_redundancy
Dafremen	Who doesn't reflect on the words of a critic? I mean honestly, who, that isn't some fluff-brained skip-through-their-lives waste of breathing room, doesn't REFLECT on the words of a critic? I'm not talking about the folks that like to wrap criticism around themselves like marching orders either. No, anyone that weak-minded deserves to march to and fro chasing opinions for the rest of their lives like shooting gallery ducks in a sharpshooter contest. I'm not talking about those ego-deficient wimps who take criticism to heart without batting an eyelash either. If they wanna allow folks free access to throw rocks at their self-image, let em have it. Me, I like to reflect, to decide whether or not a critic's words have any merit, then decide whether or not it matters(in most cases it doesn't. When yer right, yer right. Nuff sed.) Now in this case, I happen to be fond of the critic in question (as a fellow blather character), so I gave it a little more thought than I might have if it were say, some sht-for-brains with a stuffed up ego, blowing their opinions all over the place like so much snot.(Yea, don't think I don't see THAT lame comparison coming from a mile away. Step off, you'll hurt yerself.) The man said I was REDUNDANT. He said that only about 2.5% of anything I've written is insightful or entertaining..and that most of it is repetitious. ARo0?(Scooby Doo's trademark what-the-fck-do-you-mean-I-gotta-do-it-and-shove-those-scooby-snacks-back-where-you-got-em-Daphne-before-I-shove-em-there-myself sound. Perhaps "Zoinks!" would have been better.) Now coming from the person it came from, insightful is the LAST thing I shoulda heard them accusing me of NOT being. This person's forte is nonsensical jibber-jabber which...in all honestly, is randomly insightful. I would guess about 5% of the time. The rest of the time it is simply entertaining. But it is, USUALLY, nonsensical wordspew (wordstew?) and so believe me, the irony of his comments was NOT lost on me. On the other hand, perhaps he has a point. I mean, what IS particularly insightful about discussing the finite nature of the human mind? The nature of human existence? What's insightful about discussing the fact that human beings create their own misery through blind pursuit of their desires? What's insightful about a man who, having been fat(still 165 and holding baby..hurray for me!), wants to give overweight people another opinion, besides the one that tells them to get USED to being fat, to LOVE who they are, as unhealthy and unsightly as that may be? About that man asking them to get up off of their asses and walk, to eat less, exercise more..to do it for THEM? What's insightful about discussing the deterioration of the nuclear family and how it is directly related to the rise in juvenile suicide and crime? Or what about the rareness of real love? Is that insightful at all? For that matter what's insightful about revealing a lifetime's worth of lessons learned about the NATURE of real love, and how one might go about finding it more effectively, avoiding this random poke-em-and-leave-em approach that so many seem to think will lead them to the pot o' love at the end of the rainbow?(The Lotto works too...sometimes. Go figure the odds.) Is there anything THAT insightful in pointing out the lack of information in the ads that we watch and what that says about us as consumers?(And yes, noc..I realized those ads were aimed at kids...but this isn't never-never land dear...those kids will grow up someday, and the habits of childhood we take with us for a lifetime...think about it...or don't. Hell, what's even insightful about this parenthetical comment to nocturnal?) What's insightful about pondering on the nature of tolerance? About how mediocre tolerance is when compared with understanding and respect? What's insightful about trying to help folks see that we have a lot more in common than we do differences, and that there IS information out there that can help us understand how we are different as well as how we're the same? Anything insightful about discussing the REAL purpose of the 2nd Amendment? The senselessness of hunger and the part we play in creating it? What's insightful about discussing the stupidity of piddling away our freedoms, of pissing away the future of our children and THEIR children? What's insightful about ANY of these things? What's insightful about poetry? (Well unless it's LOOOVE poetry or HATE poetry or HURT poetry. THAT's insightful. Redundant or not, right?) Is there anything insightful about comparing the way we treat each other, to the way we treat our possessions? Is there? These are some of the topics I have covered in my ramblings, and frankly, none of them are as insightful as listening to Suzie go on about how to suck cock, or hearing Becky wail on, about how the latest guy she's been sleeping with and who hurt her(surprise!) is such a thoughtless @sshole. Nothing I've yakked about is NEARLY as insightful as a diatribe on who everyone would like to fck and why, or the ever-insightful, "listen to the lyrics of this song..isn't this group just the greatest?" Gawd almighty why can't I be as insightful as Ask_Me_A_Question which is always chock FULL o' goodies like "what's your favorite color and why?" or "do you find life as depressing as I do?" and let's not forget "What's your favorite group?"..no let's not forget that. Lemme see, you want insight? How about the ever insightful "there's a party in my pants and you're invited...if you're not too ugly"? Who could FORGET the way "look at my picture, aren't I hot?" made us all think and reflect on what it means to be hot AND have a picture? Maybe I'm jealous and bitter. Let's reflect on that, apparently that sort of drivel would be insightful, judging on past insights. There's the ALWAYS insightful "I can quote Buddha" chick with her touch-of-wisdom rehash of someone else's quotes mixed in with that delightfully charming "I'm not just poignant, but I can say fck too" approach that she takes to blather. Tildes all over the place are so creative after awhile, a friggin tagger's trademark signature. You know, like my look-at-me-use-hyphens-to-make-really-big-sentences-into-one-word thing that I do, or the so0per dO0per bouncing 0o that I do0 when I d0o the 0o sound in do0d. Isn't that so insightful and creative? I reflected on all of this and decided that his comments on my insight made about as much sense as poking holes through the toes of my boots so that I could get rocks out of em more easily. You want insight? READ the whole thing, tedious as it may seem. Not inclined to read long, boring, intellectual monologues? Fine, you get what you pay for. I moved on to his comment about my redundancy. Here, believe it or not...he had made a VERY good point. Unfortunately, the point he made was that we're willing to put up with the redundancy of teeny boppers trying to find themselves, of being told what products to buy. Our heart's palpitate with the shallow offerings of the boob watchers and ass lookers of America. The your-face-and-body-are-the-thing-that-I'm-really-concerned-with types who engage each other in minor chit-chat, gauging they're chances of getting laid, or getting a boy-toy by being superficially intellectual. Who could get tired of watching that...OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again? We're ENTHRALLED (some folks) by the redundancy of each year's BIG sport's competition..(go packers..woo) and of the BIG GAME (I mean could it get any bigger than watching a bunch of overpaid, steroid-enhanced Neanderthals play a child's game in a rich man's arena that was built at taxpayer's expense?) We just can't WAIT for the redundancy of this year's fall TV lineup and the redundancy of the crap that passes for music these days...wasn't last year the "Year of the remake", or was that 2000? We redundantly go on and on about how cruel life is, how mean our parents and loved ones are. Oh and tell me 'Sex, sex, sex' followed at 7:30 by 'more and more sex' with a two and a half day blather special on 'sex and how it relates to kissing, fondling and the sex that follows kissing and fondling' isn't a popularly redundant schedule around here! Lemme see, there's the (as I recently discovered) pubescent twit who thinks that "shut the fck up" and "I wish you would shut the fck up because I hate you" are not only witty, but an EXCELLENT use of free_expression, so she expresses those "witty" remarks over and over. Guess it's hard to come up with new material when the only inspiration that the world provides comes to you through half-squinted eyes. Thing is, she's not alone (as creative and individual as her you-don't-know-me-cuz-who-I-appear-to-be-is-not-who-I-really-am ass would like to think she is), there are at least a hundred blathes IDENTICAL to hers all over the place. Hell, I've done a few myself, never was naive enough to think I was being original, OR witty when I did them though. Lemme see, every day we are POUNDED by redundancy in the form of violence, sex, stupidity, product endorsements, songs(basically another product endorsement and a message about sex and or violence.) We're bombarded by politicians and the news telling us OVER and OVER "DANGER" "DANGER" DANGER" and "SECURITY" "SECURITY" "SECURITY" so that we'll give up our rights and our freedoms to protect our sorry asses from non-existant boogeymen. Society and our friends telling us day in and day out..."Be like us. You're an individual with your OWN style...just like us." We're slammed in the head on a daily basis with these selfish, negative, greedy frivolous bullsht messages and soundbites REDUNDANTLY and then we WONDER why one man, trying to make a difference in the world around him would use the same repetitive approach? We feel ASSAILED by this lone voice trying to tell us about things we do NOT want to hear. All of this redundancy in our lives and we find this ONE man to be REDUNDANT...sheesh. Reality check, my gluey chum. The approach APPARENTLY works, and is universally accepted by audiences EVERYWHERE including YOU and me. (Because there is ALWAYS this: "Uh, did you hear what that guy said go0b?" "Nope." "Huh! Me neither.") Hey..competition for our limited attention spans is FIERCE. To the critics, blather_budz of mine or no, I have this to say: Fck you. I'll say GENUINELY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SHT THAT GOES WRONG IN YOUR LIFE as much as I damned well please. Til I'm blue in the face, even. Someone's gotta fight the tide that is destroying human society, and it's obvious that most folks are too busy slapping each other on the back and saying "It's not your fault" or "Love is the answer" to actually THINK about what the answer REALLY is. The answer is reflection. The answer is SELF-reflection and OUTWARD-reflection. The answer is stepping up and taking responsibility for ours and for each other's failings. In the end their failings are also OUR failings...but FIRST they are THEIR failings. The answer ISN'T figuring out what you want next, or how you can avoid facing the realities of life by looking for the next laugh, or finding someone else to bitch about and blame everything on. Talk about your namby pamby self-centered, deluded bitches. I thought I was the whiny, narcissistic bitch(so they tell me anyhow) but sht...guess who has me beat by a mile? Yea..that's right, go ahead...point that finger at someone else. Figures. The preceeding blather was a paid advertisement sponsored by: The Committee for a Daffy_Nation. All proceeds go to fight the majority of the stupid, as invincible as they may be. Daffy_Nation. People taking care of people, by taking care of business. Available at Daf's_blather_barn. Not a flying blather.	021015

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