Saturday, January 15, 2005
Sociological Myths
Lie number...
1) You must conform.
- Of course blind conformism is encouraged. It's a tool employed by large organisations to discourage dissent.
2) You must be different because it's cool to be different.
- a variant of blind conformism, playing up to everybody's inner teenager. (or in the case of teenagers, their inner, uh, selves.)
3) Marriage will make you happy.
- and when it doesn't, you feel that something is missing. so you decide
4) Children will make you happy.
- and when they don't, you're trapped in a loveless marriage that, for the sake of the children you must maintain. For a lifetime.
Increasing numbers of children make people who worry about national birth statistics happy.
Children make parents at turns proud, frustrated, angry, happy and... many other things. Children are not small undertakings.
Neither are puppies. Nobody looks at you funny if you buy your troublesome teething puppy a biting pole.
5) Cash will make you happy.
- and if it doesnt,
6) Credit card will make you happy.
- has anyone caught the stupid platinum advertisements playing ad nauseum on class 95? See points 1, and 2.
It almost sickens me the way the advertising meatheads sat down and collective took the path of least resistance, and creativity. Hmm, what will sell? Power. Sex. Money. How about this guys? "There's a new look in town, and it's platinum. Power."
I spit in your pathetic platinum covered arses. My UK Gold card has an eight thousand pound credit limit, and I pay a total annual fee of zero pounds to maintain it.
It doesn't particularly make me feel happy. Does it make you feel happy?
7) Safety and cleanliness first.
- culture. Diversity. Open eyes. Open minds. Touch. Taste. Colour. Drabness. Beauty. Ugliness.
Imagination.
Humanity.
Freedom.
First.
Some degree of safety and cleanliness - assumed.
Excessive safety and cleanliness - sterile.
8) Support the party.
- support the country.
9) Random lies we hear / don't hear but live almost everyday.
- ? truths that some people perceive.
10) One is safe. Big brother is nice, really.
- expect that knock on re-minisce's door anytime... now...
1) You must conform.
- Of course blind conformism is encouraged. It's a tool employed by large organisations to discourage dissent.
2) You must be different because it's cool to be different.
- a variant of blind conformism, playing up to everybody's inner teenager. (or in the case of teenagers, their inner, uh, selves.)
3) Marriage will make you happy.
- and when it doesn't, you feel that something is missing. so you decide
4) Children will make you happy.
- and when they don't, you're trapped in a loveless marriage that, for the sake of the children you must maintain. For a lifetime.
Increasing numbers of children make people who worry about national birth statistics happy.
Children make parents at turns proud, frustrated, angry, happy and... many other things. Children are not small undertakings.
Neither are puppies. Nobody looks at you funny if you buy your troublesome teething puppy a biting pole.
5) Cash will make you happy.
- and if it doesnt,
6) Credit card will make you happy.
- has anyone caught the stupid platinum advertisements playing ad nauseum on class 95? See points 1, and 2.
It almost sickens me the way the advertising meatheads sat down and collective took the path of least resistance, and creativity. Hmm, what will sell? Power. Sex. Money. How about this guys? "There's a new look in town, and it's platinum. Power."
I spit in your pathetic platinum covered arses. My UK Gold card has an eight thousand pound credit limit, and I pay a total annual fee of zero pounds to maintain it.
It doesn't particularly make me feel happy. Does it make you feel happy?
7) Safety and cleanliness first.
- culture. Diversity. Open eyes. Open minds. Touch. Taste. Colour. Drabness. Beauty. Ugliness.
Imagination.
Humanity.
Freedom.
First.
Some degree of safety and cleanliness - assumed.
Excessive safety and cleanliness - sterile.
8) Support the party.
- support the country.
9) Random lies we hear / don't hear but live almost everyday.
- ? truths that some people perceive.
10) One is safe. Big brother is nice, really.
- expect that knock on re-minisce's door anytime... now...
