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“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is a video I watched which basically seeks to share statistics regarding pornography on the Internet in a fun way.  What is interesting is that the video’s method of showing itself borders on pornography!  I am not sure whether the video was made to combat pornography or simply as a tongue in cheek project… but if it was made to question pornography, I wonder whether such a method is affective. 

A part of me admires the idea of a pornographic movie that could question the very medium it employs… but a part of me also says, wait – Can a pornographic movie or a violent movie or a sexist movie or a racist movie, even if made as a satirical, ironical gesture, really serve any other purpose than to inevitably further what it questions in a roundabout way?  I realize that such things intend to shock us, the viewer, into realization… but what happens when such shock wears?  Where do we draw the line?  The proliferation of such into the imagination of the whole….it seems a devolution.  We are constantly affected by what we see, whether we like it or not…. think about cigarettes in cinema for example….even if I put a cigarette into the hands of the most despicable character, even if I show him dying in grotesque manner, the cigarette is still glorified in some manner…. and so it is with the gun or the abusive or the discriminatory.  Even if I film or show the most atrocious act, in some manner, the filming of it, if done well, makes it beautiful…. and I think sometimes there is a  subconscious transference.  So perhaps the answer is to make a truly bad movie about bad things… but then no one will watch it!

at the same time, I realize flaws in my logic… I understand the other side… and, almost absurdly, it makes just as much sense! Maybe more!  Its funny…..there is so much information… and everything can be made to seem feasible… and because of this, it seems I’m often paralyzed into inaction; really, it is a brilliant form of control, that gives the controlled the pretense of control through the facade of knowledge…. to think too much, and do too little.

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” -Socrates

 

I Believe! Hallelujah, I BELIEVE!

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

-Arthur C. Clarke

Good people, today, in a stroke of fate, I read an email from a friend telling me to follow a certain link. That link led me to an astrological profile.  Now, if you know me, you know I was already kind of intrigued by the idea of astrology to begin with…. or at least amused!  But, good God, the addiction has been reawakened!  Re-inspired!  In the past 10 minutes I have learned more about myself than I had ever wanted to….  It is the funniest most surreal thing, and oh so strange! 

Below are some links to astrology sites, I dare you to follow them!  DOUBLE DARE!  Let me know if they give you any insight!  I say hey, you say hey..  I know a naysayer would argue that all astrology writers do is find something everyone can vaguely relate to, but I kid you not, I glanced at the profiles for others signs, and they are absolutely NOT me! But when I read my own, it is god damn eery!  I’d be very interested in seeing what the “success rate” is.

My favorite line is, “for them, everything about life is Big with a capital B”… Hells yes!

Do I believe in destiny?  I think i do.  People like to say, “oh if destiny exists, why do anything? Why don’t I just sit around and do absolutely nothing?”  And to this I say –  try.  Just try.

http://www.novia.net/~aaronk/ast/leo.html

http://www.astrology.com.au/12signs/leo.asp

http://www.ncbuy.com/entertainment/astrology/leo-about.html

http://www.eastrolog.com/astrology-zodiac/leo.php