http://www.artetokio.com/english/felice_an2.html

this is like... the creepiest thing ever.


hahaha

i don't know what's better, these obama shoes:



or these obama shoes:

I wonder if he gets a cut of that or if his likeness counts as public domain cus he's a pressy

I found this sort of romantic. Amazed me as well. 

i have decided to stop drinking alcohol and just eat fish instead

All this olympic hockey has really got me pumped for the sport.
Though, nothing gets me pumped for the sport... LIKE BEARS. PLAYING. HOCKEY.

i have decided to stop drinking alcohol and just eat fish instead

Enjoy your mercury

don't really know enough about this subject to make a topic about it but i just finished reading 'capitalist realism' by mark fisher (its a great book read this book! i recommend this book) and one of the points it makes has to do with uh i think he calls it "depressive hedonia", the idea that for young people born into a world where capitalism and capitalist values are taken for granted as the only realistic ones, there is a constant kind of societal exhortation to ENJOYYY. like instead of some old model of youth rebellion where it's fight for you right to party against what society wanted you to be or whatever (he doesnt say this, this part is me) now the whole basis of the thing is that you should enjoy yourself as much as possible (and in order to do so get a good job buy lots blablabla). like there is a constant uh OBLIGATION to enjoy yourself. we've got ipods and mobiles and machines to clean your shoes and free internet pornography so why aren't you happy?? the idea is that this kind of sets unhappiness as less an external societal obstacle but more acts as if it's a personal issue, a problem that YOU have personally that you can't enjoy all this great shit. and so instead of becoming angry etc there is instead a constant sense of uh shame and guilt for not buying into this fully because what kind of person doesnt want to be happy?? and this ties into increasing levels of insularity and depression and an almost desperate hysterical embracement of the system.

anyway this idea is kind of something i've been seeing a lot lately in a bunch of different books etc and it always kind of hits home with me!! i was wondering if anyone else felt the same way or what *noone answers* guass im just a nerd........

I know that feeling

i just made a video last week about that exact bullshit. IT, and how to overcome IT, is on my friggin Dome all the time. i'll maybe get that book.

and i think almost everyone this forum knows all about it.

Yeah I thought it was a granted that everyone knows our society is based on constant gratification.

it is but part of it too is the assumption that we want instant gratification in the first place! i am explaining it badly but like beer ads or whatever do not just promise GOOD TIME W/ FRIENDS; you do not watch them and go YES I will drink that beer and have Good Time With Friends. in the same way that most marketing has to do with subconscious brand retention rather than what is said about the product i think the purpose of commercials like this is not the immediate naive one of GOOD TIMES WILL RESULT IF I DRINK THIS BEER but rather the overall idea that everyone is looking for good times in the first place (since this is what the ad assumes) and then a further association of this urge with beer etc. we dont drink the beer because of the immediate naive belief in what the ad promises but because we want to be a part of the values underlying that promise. this needs some work im gonna have to think about it idk!!

this is a deeply silly argument but you know in a choice between posting rambling puffed-up thoughts and just dumb reactions to news stories/blogshit i know which i'm going for! come with me into this new world of posting

not that it isn't human to want to be happy, but the media and consumerism makes you feel like you require something more. they create their own problem to go along with the solution they already have (their product)

a lot of tim and eric's fake products like the C-phone, tordos flavor dust, GF spooner, probably all of them make fun of this but on a more obvious level

afura i read your name like

Ah-Führer