NationStates Jolt Archive


cultural alienation

Santa Barbara
12-08-2004, 23:19
I'm bored and I continually experience this sense of alienation from any culture I happen to find. I like to think of that as a sign of my fierce independence rather than, say, loserdom.

In either case, here are some things I have no personal experience with- things I haven't watched, listened to, read or become familiar with beyond the name:

Rush Limbaugh (someone here said I must be a Rush parrot. maybe he thinks like me? i have NO idea. who is he? should i care?)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (never watched it, nor have i ever gotten my panties in a wad about it.)

The third Matrix movie. (come on, after Unloaded, you'd have to be brain dead to say "gee, let's watch the sequel to this obviously fine piece of cinema.")

The Animatrix (wtf that is)

Any popular 'artist' pseudo-musicians. (The dumb boys and girls who have excellent agents and connections and oral sex ability, and who convince other dumb boys and girls that what they do is actually music. Crap. Turn off the radio or shoot the DJ.)

Chicken Soup for the Transsexual Furry Anarcho-Socialist Fat Rights Activist (or whatever). Ugh. Not even worth the lighter fluid it takes to burn.

Cars. Seriously. WTF is up with people and cars? Everyone is such a fuss about cars. This car is good, that one bad, this is cool, that one not. It's a mode of transportation, and I don't care about it other than it's being driven by another retard who learns more about which car to needlessly buy as some kind of gay phallic status symbol, than for example, how to drive a car. Right now I can't tell a (insert latest uber-hip model of whatever) from a (insert some other latest uber hip model of whatever) and I count myself lucky for that.

Cell phones. Seriously people, no one thinks you're cool just because you're driving a car and chatting on the phone at the same time. You're just stupid. If you do this while I'm around, I will do every bit I can do to make your life miserable, including ramming your worthless self off the road so you can 'connect' with a telephone poll and get all sorts of 'minutes' in a hospital or, hopefully, a morgue. Same with annoying music for ringers. Jesus. It's just a god damned phone.

Slang. Yeah. Slang. It's stupid. A while ago saying "cool" became suddenly less "cool." It started in what, the 50's, died out, was reborn, and has died again. I'm not going to alter my speech patterns just because of the whims of what other people have decided is the new slang. Slang isn't cool. I decided not so far back to stop bothering with any new slang words or phrases. Including AOL-ese like "lol" or "tmi."

New computers. Guess what, Dell. I don't give a flying fuck if your new computer has 4.53285 ghz compared to the last one's measly, underequipped 4.53284. Nor do I care what crappy software comes with the package. My computer is good enough, because I don't get computers just because they're new and better than the last ones, I get them to perform some tasks and I'm happy with how mine do it so far. So get the hell away and shut up. (This goes for all computer companies, not just Dell.)

That's all I can think of for now. You know, I feel better. This reminded me of why alienation from stupid culture isn't so bad: I'm not a brainless sheep like 90% of the rest of you.
:sniper:
Joey P
12-08-2004, 23:23
I, on the other hand, enjoy being a brainless sheep. It's nice to stroll along with the herd grazing on McDonalds and listening to whatever the DJ chooses to play for us. It's a pleasant and serene existance.

Seriously, get over yourself. You have different taste from most people. So what.
Santa Barbara
12-08-2004, 23:24
I, on the other hand, enjoy being a brainless sheep. It's nice to stroll along with the herd grazing on McDonalds and listening to whatever the DJ chooses to play for us. It's a pleasant and serene existance.

Seriously, get over yourself. You have different taste from most people. So what.

My opinion, in case you haven't been able to tell so far, is more important to myself than other peoples. Like, for example, yours.

Also, my tastes aren't different. They're BETTER. ;)

Baah. Mooo.
Joey P
12-08-2004, 23:30
Speaking of taste, what do you like? Here are some of my picks.
Music: industrial and metal examples ministry, marylin manson, Nine inch Nails

Food: Mexican and chinese

TV: CNN, reruns of Buffy, reruns of MASH, American Chopper

Hobbies: Fishing, reading, martial arts
Keruvalia
12-08-2004, 23:34
Chicken Soup for the Transsexual Furry Anarcho-Socialist Fat Rights Activist


HEY!! I co-wrote that book.
Santa Barbara
12-08-2004, 23:36
Music: Orchestral, generally modernish, generally Russian; Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky.

Food: Pizza, fast foodburgers, chinese (this is all probably influenced by my low end economic status and laziness more than anything else)

TV: Commercials. I mean I usually have some program on as mindless noise there just to distract me from whatever I'm doing, but when I'm distracted it'll more likely be by the commercials. Ever watch commercials from like, 4 or 5 years ago? It's all very educational.

Hobbies: Ranting, music, hanging out with friends.
Keruvalia
12-08-2004, 23:49
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I wanna play!

Music: Indian Pop (like Daler Mehndi)

Food: Greek and Cajun

TV: Mostly Food Network, History Channel, and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network; but I also enjoy The Simpsons and the Daily Show.

Hobbies: I got three kids ... whatever they do is my hobby ... so a lot of coloring, playing with toys, and pretending to be a disciplinarian. After they go to bed, booze and my guitar (a 1964 Gibson Dove accoustic named Juanita that I've played for 24 years)
Santa Barbara
13-08-2004, 19:15
Hey let's keep this going! Tell us all about yourself. And since this isn't a "Getting to know you" thread no one will look here to find out your secret preferences, so go all out.