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DEATH & BOYS

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GrayFoxDown
, 06-29-2007 at 05:07 PM (1443 Views)
A certain blogger, of popular acclaim borne out of gimmick-ridden device, has attracted a considerable following of readers and viewers. He (or his clones) might be here, there or anywhere amidst the numerous blogs that abound along the Yellow Brick Road of the Internet. Owing to the massive size of his bulk (that arrogantly intrudes itself upon and fills up a pc screen) along with that of his ego, I would think that one blog would hardly be enough to contain him.

This wiseacre (or, more plainly, wise guy) took it into his head to express his views on Death. He cooly expressed his cool disregard for those who die by smugly explaining that his life isn't affected...so why should he be mournful? If a person were to die (not within the circle of those near and dear to him...hence within the tight orbit of his selfishness), why should he broken-up over it? And this scant, disjointed piece of (!) writing goes highly-rated for its cavalier tone and "looking out for number one" point of view. Because he's young and well-fed, he probably believes that he's beyond the wiles of destiny and that the "bell that tolls" is never tolling for him: his careless youth and inexperience, while awkward in his desired but ill-fitting intellectual attire, appears more comfortable in short pants which makes playing in those fields of dreams more delightful and easier to manage: if one of his toys were to break, he could always get something to replace it (including, I would imagine, a replacement for those near and dear to him, if one of them were to break).
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  1. mtpspur's Avatar
    Empathy is a dying (if I may use the word) art. It's cool to be above it all. A major in the Air Force once told me when as a very young two striper complaining how stupid a certain regulation was that they were written by people that didn't have to follow them. Life will catch up with said 'popular' blogger and he'll discover it's lonely at the bottom as well as the top when the 'coolness ' factor wears off. Fame is indeed fleeting and full of air--very difficult to hold unto and really not worth all the aggravation.
  2. kiz_paws's Avatar
    This blogger you speak of reminds me of that 'bad guy' in V for Vendetta, the one that was in the shower when V showed up. Puffy Pompous Pityful.... How is it that such people get a following -- that is my question of the day. Maybe the masses enjoy being spoon-fed garbage? Je ne sais pas is all I have to say...
  3. Countess's Avatar
    Welcome to post-modernism. In a world without "metanarratives" without "Absolute Idealism" - in short, without God - all things become equally meaningless. Thus, the only point of reference becomes the self; Self Becomes God, and as such it is Self who assigns ethical value in terms of an unspoken a priori proposition. All things are denoted good or bad in terms of whether it produces emotion/thought/pleasure or some other reaction within the Self. Thus, the death of an unknown, which does not directly impact the SelfGod, is inherently meaningless.

    And it doesn't take a genius with an IQ over 200 to see the inherent absurdity in this schema, and yet, so many genius subscribe to it's tenets, mostly out of a desire to be free from any external constraints. Hence, for me, adherents of idiotic movements such as this do so not out of the soundness of the intellectual argument, but moreso out of a self-centered desire to be free to do as they wish without reprocussions. And a few of them (was it Satre or Camus that was famous for it) have at least at the fortitude to say as much.
  4. andave_ya's Avatar
    Maybe the guy is very young? It seems that young people can't really empathise properly with the (I'm struggling now to be able to say this properly) different ways of thinking of older people. For example, my Mom is very much afraid that she'll go senile when she gets older and always tells me to put her in a nursing home if that's the case. I always answer that we'll see what God has in store but she tells me that no, it's different, and you don't understand. I didn't have to have a degree to understand that that's because I'm only a teenager yet. YET.