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Feelings, facts and humor
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2008 (11:04 PM)

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Feelings, facts and humor

(I'm feeling contemplative)

Feelings, facts and humor.

The marketers take advantage of our feelings. Freud laid it out thick for the corporate swine.

They’ve been pushing every button on us the laws allow and bending the facts beyond the vicinity of common sense.

“MacDonald’s food is nutritious”, “Credit cards make it easier to manage money”, “Violent games don’t affect the behavior of children” just scratches the surface. The press is indiscriminate. Mainstream media report the news. The police is there to protect and serve. Politicians are our elected representatives. The right to bear arms makes us safer.

We all need illusions. We all deny some truths. Sometimes we do it for social acceptance, and not merely for ourselves. It is natural to deny facts when they become to emotionally charged. I’m not exempt.

I have always taken things a little bit slower than everybody else. Never really believed the hype and was not really socially competent either. I’m still at risk of losing my livelihood, friends, and acquaintances when venting the truth. It takes patience, tolerance, understanding, empathy, rapport, and just simple decency. I miss the latter, but I can fake it at times. I try.

The lack of decency appears when humans die, and I honestly can’t feel anything. I start calculating. I start analyzing and anticipating the future events. I guess it’s some kind of defense mechanism that helps me cope with the overwhelming atrocities and disasters.

It is not the news that upset me anymore. The news disappoint me, but I don’t get emotional about it that much. What upsets me is why the news are sifted one way and not another. The notorious media frenzy. Some cute girl gets kidnapped and ends up on the news thanks to circumstances beyond my initial scope, and when the emotional public remind me of the comparisons I make, I get bashed. I’ve been bashed for making cold comparisons and trying to stick to the facts. What upsets me is when I see an overwhelming crowd who are on the lemming train and so obviously directed. It makes me sad to admit my lack of influence and tact. At least the oblivion of those who I can’t reach will keep them blissfully happier, then if I pried their eyes open. And we never know the truth. We only know the facts, and the facts change all the time. Little by little.

I try to understand what I see. What I hear.

For the truthseekers, the masses are mostly unreachable. We used to have musicians for reaching some. To rebel against the conservative politicians and suits. Bill Hicks was right. Any artist that sells out and goes corporate is lost and perpetuate the fatal struggle of people. Musicians have been artists. They used to write about themselves, about us, and about the state of the world. Just compare Live-aid and Live-aid 20. There is barely a comparison.

Bill Hicks was an artist. He was a rock musician turned comedian. A son of a preacher and the gift to stand fast. The comedians who have not sold out are still preaching the truth. Not in the direct way. That would be to offensive and counterproductive. No. Comedians make jokes. They use humor. Sometimes it’s crude and crass. Other times it’s meaninglessly lame and tame. Balancing popularity and truth has always been difficult and ever changing. Dice Clay is good example of being a victim of changing times.

What are jokes? What is humor? What are irony, sarcasm, satire, parody, cynicism and other forms of communicating that we sometimes accept as humor?

Humor is a way to test two things; human relations and the perception of truth. If we don’t find it funny, that might be a difference in culture and upbringing. If we find it offensive, then we might be misunderstanding the point being made. If we get angry, then I’m sure we’re on the wrong side of the moral defense.
Occasionally, the human relations are tested and affirmed on the expense of truth. When we share stereotypes. I have said it before; I think it’s important to have prejudice and not be prejudice. Saying that, I sometimes air out some prejudice views to make a point. I’m far from perfect, can’t you tell?

Although comics are widely considered to be reserved for children, many newspapers around the world allow political caricature and satire to make their point. To break down initial defenses and get through to people. Not just Pravda.

I rely on English for my living. English, just like any other language is changing. Of course. But it’s distracting when the politically correct and mass media influenced expressions obscure the real meaning. New expressions are used to confuse the masses and to make the lies and horror more acceptable.

As the world is communicating more quickly, the time needed to scrutinize and compare has been shortened along with our attention span. We are either distracted by the bombardment of marketing contraptions, or we are helplessly isolated and disorganized in our dismissal of changing times.

Personally, I think we need to get back to thinking a little smaller, especially in cities and other crowded areas. Don’t believe the hype. If we need to expand, I think we should expand beyond the hype. To set our own goals. Regardless of reality. To let reality catch up with our dreams and visions. Otherwise, the only things driving us would be materialistic values and short-term smart goals that eventually might prove counterproductive.

I’m for more spiritual values, with long-term wise goals. Not only, but more. Regaining some balance and harmony, that was well-thought out a long time ago, when time was measured differently. When human value was measured differently. I’m not saying that is better. I’m saying that is what I would like. To fall back on what was good and try to combine it with what is good today.

I have a tendency to point fingers, but that is the way I compare things. How do we know what we have, before we lose it? I’ll tell you; by looking and learning from others and the history of all. Then getting knee-deep in it for personal experince and memory. By choice, not out of oblivion or necessity.

I can’t stop you from doing what ever you want. I just want one thing: for each and every individual on this planet, including you, to hear, listen, and understand the point which different people are making. Then taking responsibility for yourself, your decision and understand that I will do that too, although we might choose different paths. If we disagree, then let’s agree to disagree. Time will tell if we move towards or away from each other, but at least there is a relation between persons.

When was the last time you managed to concede the point of another human being, in its entirety and respectfully disagree?
When was the last time you heard joke you didn’t agree to, and took some time to understand why the joke was told?
When was the last time you could laugh out loud at yourself? Just you.
When was the last time you used a word unusually appropriately and not made fun of? Or even at that, being made fun of and still knowing that it was the most honest, accurate and responsible way.
When was the last time you forgave someone, who you felt didn’t deserve it? Truly forgiving that person. No regret. No remorse. No anger. No shame.
When was the last time you apologized, truthfully and sincerely for something you had no reason to apologize for?

I’m in an awareness that will hopefully in the future make me humble, with moderation and love for all.

I love you. Who ever you are.

Just kidding. Now fuck off and leave me alone.

I gotta go and hug my mom.

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Posted Sep 15, 08 by LVbianSynic (

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When was the last time you managed to concede the point of another human being, in its entirety and respectfully disagree?

Today

When was the last time you heard joke you didn’t agree to, and took some time to understand why the joke was told?

I work in a middle school...I hear it often and being the adult I try to address it.

When was the last time you could laugh out loud at yourself? Just you.

LOL- being a goofy vlogger, I do that often and even have it on tape to laugh at later!

When was the last time you used a word unusually appropriately and not made fun of?

Omigosh, I have so many of THOSE on tape, too!

When was the last time you forgave someone, who you felt didn’t deserve it?

Hmm...I have yet to do this.

When was the last time you apologized, truthfully and sincerely for something you had no reason to apologize for.

Today, also.