ignorance....

I've been come over with a lot of want to write this down; my affinity and obsession with others lives, mainly through media. Thats a little harsh of a way to put it, so I'll dumb it down, or lesson the effects of it, if you will. There is a media-driven necessity, almost as if it was passed from generation to generation, to inquire, and even follow the lives of stars and the like. It, along with many other media-driven forms of communication to the public, drive these idealogies and norms down our throats like we're sitting there, mouth open, tryin' to catch snowflakes in the winter. Bad analogy, real bad in fact.

We, and side note: I really hate to make generalizations, esp with idealogical principles involved, but I do all the time. I used to say, I'm a walking contradiction. So it is. Either way, I, in a mild way. have a need and probably more so, a want, to follow lives of say it a basketball star, like Lebron, or a movie star, like Brad Pitt, even a TV show character, such as what I'm hinting for myself, Entourage, and, hell, if you're really lame, a political figure.

And, another side note, American political representatives are nothin to throw a party about, to say the least. The political system, along with many other major systems within our social framework, does not function properly. And, yes, I speak very subjectively; because in all reality, what is really meant of 'Politics'? This is my favorite quote on the subject and the definition; however, this in my very subjective and ill-informed opinion, because how can we be objective in a subject that is just that, subjective. Get it. There you go. Time to move on. HST said 'politics is the art of controlling your environment.' A definition that is a simple as it is powerful.

What affects us the most within our lives? Our innermost beliefs and thoughts and feelings interacting with the world around us, our environment. So, what better way to get more off-track of the main subject, than to say that maybe the later, the political figures are the smarter choice between the list of others. I mean, one is fictional, one is created from series of fictional characters, if you follow me on that one, and the other could beat you at one game, well some of them are big, so maybe a couple.

Nonetheless, we still chose to live vicariously through these characters or even real people, but a person is only as good as his whole, so how can we even see a whole person through a media-driven form of capitalist-driven corporations and their ulterior motives.

So, just as the media and the government connect, thus do the corporations. It seems as if all three make up the American society and especially what is perceived by outsiders, what it sadly seems to be today. And, what that society, and those institutions don't know, is that, the United States of America can no longer be the world power of yesteryear, of my parents generation, coming off WWII. This United States does not have the key ingredients, such as resources, ie OIL, at least in quantity needed, and also a sense of society that does not come from the media, but through a sense of also community, an attachment to one another. Because, a society is a very large sense of an attachment, maybe even at the bitter core, a reason for being, but, so is, community, a smaller version of a society, that with the development of large cities, is being wiped out.

I have a very skeptical, and pessimistic, view, excuse me, but I'm there and I've been there. I'm not talking straight poverty in the hood or even Welfare, but to start lower middle-class, with the middle class being abolished as I continue to waste my time blogging and not getting ready. Being there shows you another side of America that maybe isn't hell holes and jail cells, but it aint fuckin rainbows and cherry pie either. Maybe since I'm from Pittsburgh, Stillers and Beer. Either way, theres so much more than all of that, but which will life grant? And which will have to dig out of our holes and try to obtain. With most failing at the latter. As I do everyday.