"Here in the heart of Europe
No one stands up proud no more
Here in the heart of Europe
Our culture is a dying whore"
--L'Ame Immortelle
"In the Heart of Europe"
That's my inspiration this early Tuesday morning when I should be in bed. That, and a friend's blog. And that's simply because I get brain-waves. You might see something about Emily Dickinson on here next (we're studying her in English at the moment, but I really like her work. She's good.)
"Everybody's just consuming
What the media's dictating
But they all have just forgot
The joy that there is to creating."
--L'Ame Immortelle
"In the Heart of Europe"
But seriously, when it comes to stereotypes and what not, I'm thinking that we really do take the media too literally. It's insane. It feels like...no one is making their own opinions anymore. Sure, the TV, full of stuff that's bound to vitiate you (I don't think I used that correctly but I'll push on anyhow.), can be a help to open your mind--especially the Discovery Channel's A Haunting. Now that's something to watch. It's scary, but it's just interesting too, especially when you get even curiouser about it to the point where you're just all....."I've got to read more about it." That's perhaps how things might have been before all this miscellaneous stuff happened. Maybe, and I truly think so.
As the song (rightfully? That's your opinion) says, we just consume what the media's giving us, usually without second thought...without a "maybe..." to come after it. We want the cat good, dead and slaughtered. (You know, "curiosity kills the cat...") There isn't enough curiosity, and as a result, we're just not there anymore. Just shootings and killings and video games...hell, this life is a video game it seems when you look at it from another point of view...if you look at God playing with a constantly refreshed original PlayStation....okay, an XBox and he's controlling all of us using that damned joystick, deciding whether or not he wants to let so many of us die with only one life, bring people into the world screaming and crying, bring them into the world as stillborns, or maybe have a car accident happen. Hm...? Or maybe give someone 3 lives and they don't know that they are on their last one. That's friendly.
It seems like we're dying, we're being slaughtered because we are slaughtering ourselves. When I used to go to church, someone told me that America was "broken", that evangelists were coming to America to fix us. I don't think that's going to work. I'm not saying it won't, I'm just saying that I don't think so. I believe in possibilities, not grandeur so much I don't think, not anymore.
Things seem more or less real...probably less. The world is just....open for slaughter, I suppose with the way we're going what with 9/11, Virginia Tech and what just happened up at North Illinois University, to name a few "shocking" moments. There're more, but I'm trying to stay recent.
Newer music in the Pop genre of things doesn't help either. I don't think we need anymore people for music if they can not do it well. That's just it. Seriously, almost everyone I know knows "Girlfriend", the most annoying song in the history of the music that I've heard and either liked/disliked. That, or "Soulja Boy"....I won't tolerate that song. I'll walk out if I hear it. That means, yes, if some asshole played that horror and I can hear it, I will simply walk out and wait for it to leave. Or ask if I can pull out my iPod. Which I should.
But moving along....now this is becoming a rant. If you want you can always read another blog if you even made it THIS far down the line. Or you can continue reading, trying to make my thoughts make sense. If they don't, leave me a comment, and we'll see if after an explanation it will make more or less sense to you.
We've got to better defend our minds from just processing without thinking. There's got to be some thought along the way.....shouldn't it?
***I might come back to edit this.***
