Truth! - part 4
The following statements are true. Anything that seems less than true is probably a hallucination, you party animal, you:
The maternity and childbirth industry is based, not just on assisting the furtherance of the species, but also on obscuring the truth about childbirth. The iconography in particular is a good example. It's all storks and soft smiling babies and ornate baby carriages and all manner of softness and niceness. Depending on who you talk to, this world either has a mild overpopulation problem or a "holy shit it's monstrous" overpopulation problem. People would have less children if the maternity industry changed their iconography to be more honest about the process: crying babies, blistered nipples, stretch marks, huge distended vaginas, graphic depictions of episiotomies, all manner of "cheesy substances" as the medical books call them. We're not primitive people that will mistake our child for food anymore. I think we're evolved enough to handle some honesty.
Putting seat covers on public toilets is pointless. There is no germ that could survive indefinitely on a toilet seat without a human host that's going to be stopped by a piece of paper. Conversely, there is no germ that could be thwarted by a piece of paper that could live outside of a human host. Also, ask yourself, what part of you touches the seat. It's not your anus or your genitals or any other unprotected body part. It's your buttocks, a fully skin-covered, sanitarily sealed slab of flesh, no more sensitive to germs than your shoulder or your forearm or the middle of your back.
There is a great deal of denial that goes into eating healthy. Brown rice is not delicious. It'll do for nutrition, but it's not delicious. Claiming that brown rice and fruit sweetened desserts and carob and soy cheese and garden burgers taste as good or better than fried food, butter, processed sugar, wheat, and non-soy real dairy cheese is a transparent and pathetic lie. The greatest culinary scientists in human history have devoted their collective intelligence to making the bad-for-you food taste better, because if you eat it they make money. That's just the facts. Claiming that health food tastes better is like claiming that third world sweat shop labor isn't cheaper. It is. It's horrible, but it is cheaper (for those of us that don't work there anyway). Eating healthy is a great thing to do, but you don't have to lie about it.
To my ear, Vietnamese often sounds fake. Like they're just making up an Asian sounding language. Don't know why.
Sunshine does not automatically make a "nice day", any more than a pretty face automatically makes a nice person. If the sun is shining, and the sky is blue, but it's 20 below 0, it's not a nice day. It's fuckin' cold!
Halloween is about death and evil and fear. It's a time when we take back these negative feelings and celebrate our ability to triumph over them. Like black men calling each other nigger or gay men calling each other faggot. It should therefore not be cute, but joyously horrific, like Rob Zombie's id. The smiling happy jack o'lantern, the smiling happy scarecrow, the cute black kitten, the pretty little girl dressed as a pretty little witch, all that Hallmark crap has gotta go. Mind you I'm a bit of a ghoul year round, but this isn't about my personal taste. It's about remembering why you're dressing up in the first place, and not fearing the darkness.
Listening to your I-Pod in public seems rudely unsociable in some situations, but if you think about it, it's not any more rude than reading a book in public.
People often pay lip service to how difficult it sometimes is to do the right thing. I never understood this because it seemed exceedingly simple to do the right thing; dishonesty requires maintenance, hatred requires energy, hurting people requires effort. However, I've learned it's not that the act of doing the right thing is hard, it's that the consequences of doing the right thing are hard to endure. Many good people miss opportunities for wealth and position simply because they refuse to step on others.
Photographic realism, and naturalism in art are all very interesting, but not artistically (my definition of artistic). They're interesting in the same way juggling and acrobatics are interesting. You don't necessarily experience the emotional content and the expression of the artists so much as you sit back and say "Wow! How do they do that?".
The maternity and childbirth industry is based, not just on assisting the furtherance of the species, but also on obscuring the truth about childbirth. The iconography in particular is a good example. It's all storks and soft smiling babies and ornate baby carriages and all manner of softness and niceness. Depending on who you talk to, this world either has a mild overpopulation problem or a "holy shit it's monstrous" overpopulation problem. People would have less children if the maternity industry changed their iconography to be more honest about the process: crying babies, blistered nipples, stretch marks, huge distended vaginas, graphic depictions of episiotomies, all manner of "cheesy substances" as the medical books call them. We're not primitive people that will mistake our child for food anymore. I think we're evolved enough to handle some honesty.
Putting seat covers on public toilets is pointless. There is no germ that could survive indefinitely on a toilet seat without a human host that's going to be stopped by a piece of paper. Conversely, there is no germ that could be thwarted by a piece of paper that could live outside of a human host. Also, ask yourself, what part of you touches the seat. It's not your anus or your genitals or any other unprotected body part. It's your buttocks, a fully skin-covered, sanitarily sealed slab of flesh, no more sensitive to germs than your shoulder or your forearm or the middle of your back.
There is a great deal of denial that goes into eating healthy. Brown rice is not delicious. It'll do for nutrition, but it's not delicious. Claiming that brown rice and fruit sweetened desserts and carob and soy cheese and garden burgers taste as good or better than fried food, butter, processed sugar, wheat, and non-soy real dairy cheese is a transparent and pathetic lie. The greatest culinary scientists in human history have devoted their collective intelligence to making the bad-for-you food taste better, because if you eat it they make money. That's just the facts. Claiming that health food tastes better is like claiming that third world sweat shop labor isn't cheaper. It is. It's horrible, but it is cheaper (for those of us that don't work there anyway). Eating healthy is a great thing to do, but you don't have to lie about it.
To my ear, Vietnamese often sounds fake. Like they're just making up an Asian sounding language. Don't know why.
Sunshine does not automatically make a "nice day", any more than a pretty face automatically makes a nice person. If the sun is shining, and the sky is blue, but it's 20 below 0, it's not a nice day. It's fuckin' cold!
Halloween is about death and evil and fear. It's a time when we take back these negative feelings and celebrate our ability to triumph over them. Like black men calling each other nigger or gay men calling each other faggot. It should therefore not be cute, but joyously horrific, like Rob Zombie's id. The smiling happy jack o'lantern, the smiling happy scarecrow, the cute black kitten, the pretty little girl dressed as a pretty little witch, all that Hallmark crap has gotta go. Mind you I'm a bit of a ghoul year round, but this isn't about my personal taste. It's about remembering why you're dressing up in the first place, and not fearing the darkness.
Listening to your I-Pod in public seems rudely unsociable in some situations, but if you think about it, it's not any more rude than reading a book in public.
People often pay lip service to how difficult it sometimes is to do the right thing. I never understood this because it seemed exceedingly simple to do the right thing; dishonesty requires maintenance, hatred requires energy, hurting people requires effort. However, I've learned it's not that the act of doing the right thing is hard, it's that the consequences of doing the right thing are hard to endure. Many good people miss opportunities for wealth and position simply because they refuse to step on others.
Photographic realism, and naturalism in art are all very interesting, but not artistically (my definition of artistic). They're interesting in the same way juggling and acrobatics are interesting. You don't necessarily experience the emotional content and the expression of the artists so much as you sit back and say "Wow! How do they do that?".
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