The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can be considered an individual), which in association with the passionlessness and reflection of the times creates that abstract phantom, the public, which is the actual leveller. . . . More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. 10 This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about. . . . The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. 11 If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg—until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels.
Last night I saw a verry rocky christmas-- which is the rocky horror picture show put on during christmas time at this local university. The show was a testimony to sexuality and desire-- while poking at human weakness to it.
I'm at a friends house right now-- and between conversations about the above read passage and the conversation about objectifying women, my friend brought to my attention that "Frank" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and his all his sexual antics --along with all the witness and support from the participating audience, -- these are those who have played the leveler.
raisin my mojo-- stealn my virtue.
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Why do people long for sexuality to the degree that they do? Honestly, I think my sexual pursuits are driven mainly out of boredom. I thought it was loneliness at first, but I have come to realize that if I am lonely, it is only because I'm bored.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore, they created human beings.
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