Meditation for July 16th, 2016
Being Against Anything That Eveyone Else Seems To Enjoy Just Because Eveyone Else Seems To Enjoy It And I Didn’t Hear About It Until Eveyone Else Is Already Enjoying It
Because of the way we have set up the Internet and the way modern society engages in modern culture, things that are hip or popular spread like wild fire. Literally exploding people’s heads as the fad bursts from person to person in nano seconds. Fads burn bright , but they also go out faster.
Sometimes you blink and you didn’t see the fad until it was too late. You were reading an archaic newspaper or playing an obsolete video game and you look up and everyone is into something new. The entire internet is lit up with this new fad. Traditional news sources are tripping over themselves to cover this new fad. Is it good or is it bad? You are caught empty handed without this fad. What do you do?
You could be a few days late and join the fad and see why people are so into this new thing. Most of the time if a bunch of people are into something, it is actually because it is fun. You can lower the ego and be the new person joining the new trend, but you can be a part of a cultural phenomenon.
Or…
…you could be completely belligerent about the new fangled thing, cursing it’s very existence.
It is killing people
Usually a new fad has some possible health risk and this is why it must be stopped. People are walking into hay compactors because they won’t keep their eyes off the new shiny thing.
You being into this new thing is affecting my health. People are stepping into my path staring at the next big thing and almost killing me.
It is a conspiracy
When something is popular, then it means the mean old evil advertising industry is trying to trick us into being mindless drones. It’s not because anything can be creative and fun, it is just to make us part of the Matrix.
It’s just like [BLANK]
This is exactly like this other fad that was terrible. No, I didn’t do that either, but remember it ended up being terrible.
I can only judge things from the time I was culturally relevant, so I can say this new thing is stupid, even though I’m way too old to be culturally relevant now.
It is offensive
When you are doing the greatest thing since the Beatles, I am reminded that I was beat by my uncle who used a frozen Coho salmon. Please stop doing the thing so I can be a part of instead of joining in.
Also, Hitler.
I haven’t tried it, but it is so fucking stupid!
I don’t need to try it to know that this brand new thing is just fucking dumb. All the things I do are awesome, and what you are into is not awesome, even though I have no idea because I haven’t tried it. I read one or two news blogs’ reactionary piece to your new fun, so I know that what you are doing is awful. I know enough by seeing you and everybody else having a great time sharing this cultural movement that it is dumb.
Even though by saying this, I am saying that I don’t respect you or feel you are smart enough to do things that are fun. I am different in the smart kind of way, so I look down on your poor soul making stupid decisions on what you enjoy doing.
I must be just boring and very insecure in my lack of imagination and creativity that I refuse to be apart of anything the rest of you are into.
But…
…it’s okay to not to want to do anything if you aren’t attracted to it.
Just let the kids enjoy themselves.