Oscar F wrote:sweetjesus wrote:Oscar F wrote:Go ahead piss away on the mainstream and when all you anti-mainstream idealists become the majority what does make all of you then ?
The neo-mainstream perhaps.
Sounds like a bunch of indie "non-comformists" all dressing to a certain code, liking a certain music and having the same interests all bagging everyone else out for being sheep.
You're still part of the herd even if your flock is of a different fleece.
theres nothing wrong with being 'majority' or mainstream, its just how theyre going about it.
its ok to make 1 billion dollars a year profit instead of 10 billion.
its okay to provide a platform like Idol for fostering new talent, but not when its used to mould artists into predefined packages they already have in mind.
its just how these greedy fucks are going about it and it's actually devalued out creative works.
Oh I agree with you in many respects SweetJesus.
I guess I am more concerned with the notion that anti-mainstream can indeed become a new mainstream mode of thought .
Either end of the spectrum is in many respects as dangerous as the other.
It isn't just a case of greed either.
The whole bigger is better dichotomy.
This is reinforced on so many levels in society at an almost subconscious level.
One almost feels as if populism reigns supreme.
Add to that the fact that we all need longer harder erections.
Women should have bigger breasts.
Men should have well defined abs.
You should own the biggest house.
Have the biggest pay packet.
Be seen wearing or liking the most popular things.
Sometimes I feel like we live in a self loathing, narcissistic, be anything other than yourself, me too, I'm a fabulously nobody, nihilistic culture that is obsessed with a veritable Warholian 15 minutes of fame at any cost.
The epitaph for the masses should probably read "Eat Shit, 10 Million Flies Can't be Wrong".
We really need to change peoples perspectives on what true success is.
Our worth isn't based on our merits as individuals, whether we be rich or poor.
Being Human alone is worth something and each one of us is special.
This holds true no matter what our station in life.
Everything around us is like a distraction that prevents each and everyone of us all from finding our "True North".
For me that is the greatest tragedy of all.
People going through life, chasing the biggest lie of all and never ever realizing there existence as the creature they where always meant to be.
We are all beautifully fucked up, flawed and contradictory in one way shape or form and the sooner we all realize that true beauty lies in our imperfections and flaws the better off we will all be.
Being forced into a seemingly digitized world of airbrushed beauty, binary logic and populist me too ideology where the imperfect self and the notion of community no longer exist is a depressing thought.
Quite frankly I wonder whether humanity has reached an evolutionary regression beyond the mean.
How as organic individuals can we evolve in parallel with technology that is fast reaching an evolutionary singularity is beyond me also.
We either homogenize and embrace the machine, in essence becoming cyber-kinetic organisms or more than likely face a mass extinction event unless we make some magical quantum evolutionary leap through natural processes of evolution and or natural genetic mutation.
That said I will shut up as that is going way off topic and into philosophical spheres of discussion best left to another thread altogether.
Wow.
Just playing on words here.