“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that’s all some people have? It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.”
This is literally what I tried to do through my entire time at college, and yet my teachers still yelled at me about not trying to ham-fist meaning into my art an animations.
I’ve watched so many Good For You ™ movies, so many that people recommended like prescriptions.
Not a single one of those, not a single one, gave me the emotional response of, say, Pacific Rim.
I don’t care what you think of that specific example, I just want to say that sometimes stupid escapist ridiculousness is exactly what the world needs.
“People don’t want the truth! They want opiates! They’re just sheep! They don’t care about my Important Meaningful Insights!”
Yeah, no, fuck off. My life is kind of difficult, I’ve been suicidal, I’m hella poor, I’m mentally ill, things aren’t rosy. I don’t want your fucking Saving Private Ryans. I don’t want your Brokeback Mountains.
I want Pacific Rim. I want The Rocketeer. I want Enchanted.
Because my life contains enough truth. Too much truth.
Take me away from that truth. Don’t dice it up, garnish it, and serve it back to me.
Take me away. That’s the real challenge. That’s the only art I really want anymore.
Month: February 2015
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran (via purplebuddhaproject)
“Get a better job,” they said.
Suddenly, every custodian everywhere quits their job and gets a better one. Now, upon entering public restrooms, everyone is handed a spray bottle and toilet brush, because now they have to scrub their own shit out of that public porcelain throne. Women’s restrooms come complete with plastic bags, because they have to bring their soiled period products home with them and dispose of them at home, because there is no more public waste removal.
“Get a better job,” they said.
All fast food employees quit and find a “better job”. No more fast food places! There also aren’t any restaurants. Better learn to cook your own shitty garbage burgers. You have only yourself to yell at if you forget the cheese.
“Get a better job,” they said.
Retail stores no longer have any employees. All shopping must be done online, but you have to drive out and pick up the supplies yourself because the Fedex people quit and got better jobs, too.
“Just get a better job,” they said!
You now have to grow and make every single thing you ever consume for the rest of your life, because no one wants to do it for you at $7 an hour.
Fuck you.
A la Keke (via stephanietorno)
“The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it.” — Michael Rivero
(via riversofgold)
