Saturday, March 26, 2011

No truth on the horizon...

Remind me to never write about culture again. As science toils away at mapping the human genome with scientific instruments, everyone that writes about culture is attempting to map the human interaction "genome" with the very instrument that it is attempting to map (the psyche). That is insanity. The more I write, the less I "know" about hipsters or culture in general. A few insights about hipsters and culture: hipster culture might be dead, or it might have never existed, or it may always exist as a "middleman" between dominant culture, subordinate culture, and corporate interests. The term may be a product of the mainstream trying to create a label for the things it needs to... label. Culture may be an entangled sphere of dominant and subordinate influences, or it may be a means of social control imposed by dominant power structures. The truth of culture is the ghost of it's lies; white is black; the world inside is outside, and I have a headache. That is all.

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  1. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the black streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn” Allen Ginsberg

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  2. Patrick, welcome to the world of writing about Culture. I'm glad you're deeply entangled in the arguments, though.

    "Were you in the shit?" "Yah, I was in the shit." from "Rushmore"

    Furthermore, whoever this Laura is, you should keep her around. Remember, though, that Ginsberg also said: "You can't eat shit without having visions." I'm glad you're seeing...even if it hurts the head a bit.

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