Do me a favour, eh?
Oct. 8th, 2007 09:56 pmDr. Steel - [Back and Forth]--- Let's do me a favour, tonight: Stop. Stop whining about "where's my jet pack" and "who stole my future" and "why can't I eat food in pill form" and "but the Singularity is near."
Your future has been "stolen."
You don't have a jet pack.
Fine, but what is more important: finding out why and who, or fucking doing something about it?
Dr. Steel - [Planet X marks the Spot]--- There are too many types of people who all care too much about looking right, acting cool, knowing the right people, the right dances, the New Bullshit, and pretending not to care.
Dr. Steel - [The Dr. Steel Show]--- Just don't care.
Do what needs to be done. Don't react to your oppressors, just Refuse To Be Oppressed.
If you spend all of your time trying to "fight the power," what are you not doing? You're not changing things.
Reaction is part of a cycle and conformity is hilarious.
Irony is the new thinking for yourself, and a blasé attitude is the new emotional vulnerability.
Doing what the fuck you want and need is the new "the new," and kicking you in the fucking teeth is the new "American Idol."
That is all.
Good night.
Your future has been "stolen."
You don't have a jet pack.
Fine, but what is more important: finding out why and who, or fucking doing something about it?
Dr. Steel - [Planet X marks the Spot]--- There are too many types of people who all care too much about looking right, acting cool, knowing the right people, the right dances, the New Bullshit, and pretending not to care.
Dr. Steel - [The Dr. Steel Show]--- Just don't care.
Do what needs to be done. Don't react to your oppressors, just Refuse To Be Oppressed.
If you spend all of your time trying to "fight the power," what are you not doing? You're not changing things.
Reaction is part of a cycle and conformity is hilarious.
Irony is the new thinking for yourself, and a blasé attitude is the new emotional vulnerability.
Doing what the fuck you want and need is the new "the new," and kicking you in the fucking teeth is the new "American Idol."
That is all.
Good night.
::Deep breath::
Date: 2007-10-09 03:21 am (UTC)The only thing in life anyone ever controls is themselves, but in that they control everything. The only thing preventing anyone from becoming master of their own life, fate, destiny, etc., etc., ad nosium, ad infinitum, is the knowledge of self actualization and the willpower to enforce said upon themselves.
The sadness is the fear everyone has in the cost of such a path for the price of freedom is ever paid in accountability, a price most find to high by far.
Ah well. To sum up, I agree whole heartedly and it is good to hear you reiterate a point I have heard you harken to for so long.
-Luke
Re: ::Deep breath::
Date: 2007-10-09 04:49 am (UTC)Re: ::Deep breath::
Date: 2007-10-10 03:27 pm (UTC)And, you've posted in your LJ, replied on here, AND called D, all in several days...Are you dying? O_o