So that kind of led into what happened that sparked a need for the first half of this post. We threw Grease 2 on at lunch today because I commented that I had never seen it before. We didn't watch much because my wife was right that it was awful but it brought a crazy funny thought to mind, also Shooter McGavin was in it, but I digress even though I haven't really gressed yet. Can you say you got off topic if you didn't really get on topic to start? IDK that is a thought for another blog I suppose.
Anyway, so I decided that life would be really weird if it were like a musical. Imagine this; you are walking out of your mom's car to go to school. As you walk up the path suddenly everyone, including yourself suddenly breaks into a choreographed dance number and there is singing, but no ones mouths are moving! I mean personally I would freak out. Seriously who took the time to coordinate this dance? Where is the singing coming from? Why are the Jocks so into it? Why do I know the moves? WTF IS GOING ON!!!??? Second to the large group numbers is awkward duets. If you were a girl and asked your man how he felt, and then he broke into a song, which included people dancing, wouldn't you freak out? I would. I mean how can you cope with that? It is insanity. Why are all those people suddenly dancing in a manner that compliments your love's song when they don't know your conversation? Why are there so many eavesdroppers? WTF IS GOING ON!!!??? So the last one related directly to the opening scene. All of those kids would be very late everyday. Well at least the kids in the back. Basically the moral of the story is that if you suck at dancing you're going to be tardy because you get stuck in the back. Seriously way to bring down punishment just because we can't dance. Why can't I just walk into school whenever I want? Why must big brother control my pecking order based on ability to dance? When did dance become the only measuring stick for humans? WTF!!!???
So basically that is what life would be like if it were a musical, a lot of confusion and a lot of really awkward moments but some really great dancers!
Moving on. This is a rant, a rant brought about by some facebook statuses, a few tweets, and some various news articles. It spawned a new word from me, Anti-Culturalism. This is the act of being against culture due to the current state of humanity. The posts all seemed to be centered around the super bowl. The first was mad because, as they stated, "We spend 10 billion on the super bowl, enough to feed 127 million kids for a year, where is or perspective?" Or something to that nature. This is the part where I sound like a complete and utter asshole but I don't care because I believe this fully. I don't care if a starving family hates me because I watch sports, or go to concerts, or generally live my life how I do. This is not because I don't care about the starving family, no no on the contrary I feel bad for them, however it does not mean that I have to give up everything to ensure their well being. It sounds bad but it is true.
The truth of the matter is that in order to have a working civilization that includes CULTURE you have to have a class system. The nature of culture is having pointless things that define you based on other persons. American culture includes sports, as do many countries including undeveloped nations. India is full of starving kids but they still play Cricket! The idea of culture is that a group of people needs to do things that serve no real purpose to the countries necessities. We don't need music, or theater, or art, or sports, or video games to function, but we need them to maintain individuality. If every person on the planet was perfectly equal. All the same living condition's, food, and health, there wouldn't be room for members of society who produce no valuable function. A painter could never be praised for having a talent few others have, an athlete can't be praised for having exceptional physical abilities, etc. etc. The reason that the class system exists is because the people who give society culture, musicians, writers, painter, athletes, etc, are praised and compensated for their special abilities. The people who pay these peoples salaries are the people who make enough money to spend surplus on upgrading their culture. And unfortunately there is a lower class. It sucks but I would rather have the culture. You can argue with me and call me a dick or whatever but be honest with yourself, unless there is a world where everyone is exactly equal, a class system will exist, a class system that will spawn creative minds to create a culture in society.
Don't kill culture as we know it, there are better ways to help poor sick starving people then cancelling a Super Bowl. I'm sick of your attempts to sway peoples thinking with guilt logic that is just plain stupid when you really think about it. Here is one for you, we don't really need renewable energy, coal is just fine. How many starving kids can you feed if you get rid of gov't subsidies for renewable sources?
/end ranty super paragraph.
-Minos
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