Looking at the subjects that I cover in my work, or, to be more specific, looking at what I focus on when discussing the subjects that I cover in my work, I sure appear to be one bitter pessimist.
In doing the work that I do, I mostly assume the title of a “social critic.”
As a social critic my job is to bring to society’s attention, the negative impact that what they see as an entirely positive invention has on the human race. It is not that I don’t acknowledge the positive impact what I discuss has.
For example, while I acknowledge the convenience that the monetary system has blessed us with, I’m likely to focus on how money is now used as an enslaving tool. For money gives those who have it the privilege to control the actions of those who don’t.
In a word, I find no value in spending my mental energies thinking about, and, discussing, issues that someone or something has already conquered.
(While the world is praising the penis for the pleasure that it affords the sexually active, as a social critic, I am one to bring rape to their excitement.)
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— March 7, 2012.
Er, … men aren’t an exception. We too spend a huge chunk of our limited time here on earth worrying about, not only what “others” think of us, but how we look too.
In his book, Lewis Mumford, mentions how the invention of glass led to the invention of the mirror. An invention that in turn bred self-consciousness.
That then, I’d like to add, has given birth to industries which profit from their promise to make 43 year-old women look 34. Not forgetting those who pay their bills by cheering up those depressed by the prevalence of wrinkles on their beloved faces.
(Being/looking young is a stage. Sadly, most of us can’t let go of the poor phase.)
More cartoons on: Looks.
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— February 21, 2012.
More and more people have become conscious of “photo manipulation.” Yet, more and more people foolishly accept what advertisers subtly paint as beauty, as
beauty.
As a result, countless people, mostly women, starve themselves, in pursuit of what we are relentlessly fed, by adverts, as the ideal figure of an ideal woman. Go figure!
I don’t even want to start on how gazillions of black women have been brainwashed into finding it impossible for them to be seen as beautiful, without having fake hair.
I am yet to bump into a white woman that is desperately trying to look like a black woman. Companies that sell makeup and weaves profit from such
insecurities.
(P.S., I have just bumped into a film, below, that is, in a way, based around the idea behind the above cartoon. The film is work by, Elena Rossini, a woman with balls.)
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— October 17, 2011.
