Mac!

Those immortal words of Barney Gumble, drunken, gutter-bound, encapsulate this moment.

I’ve watched this little micro-blogging platform change from a place with a genuine sense of community (if by that I mean a group of people who would routinely get together to take pictures of each other and claim it was hanging out) to a place where people only converse about their obsessive fandom en masse.

Text posts grow cobwebs while animated gifs permeate the spectrum of posts across this long banal digitalized game of telephone that Tumblr has been.

I see a lot of rubbernecking. I see a hell of a lot of impotent rage, backlash, and flat out ignorance disguised as “sticking up for the little guy” or some other cause on this site. I see people making cliques and excluding others in all directions. A quick “tumble” through anyone’s dash shows you a decent snapshot of how bland and entitled we are. The experience is damning.

The most damning thing I see however is the lack of READING. I feel like all these neglected text posts are the prime reason this site and the culture it feeds must die. I actually read on a guy’s blog a while back this phrase:

“I don’t read.”

Fuck that, and fuck that guy for saying it. Fuck you even more for not reading. Just thinking this phrase makes my blood boil. Who says they don’t read? Not only is it wholly untrue and disingenuous, it is such an awful thing to state so proudly or without embarrassment. If you honestly don’t ever read books, comic or otherwise, then you have absolutely NOTHING to say that I have any desire in hearing, and nobody should EVER be forced to listen to you at length or waste a second of their attention on your antics. Reading is how you form your own opinions, develop critical thinking, and challenge yourself with ideas not your own or eaten from the trough that is modern popular culture. If you aren’t reading and learning, you’re just keeping time while you get old. You can be that 50 year old person who knows just as much as they did when they were 23… which was FUCK ALL.

Age does not equal wisdom. There are plenty of old people who don’t know dick about anything. Look at our government leaders for example.

So we have a lot of users threatening to abandon ship from the old U.S.S. Tumblr, and I say great! If it takes a big corporate merger with Yahoo to get you off your computer and out of the comfort zone you live in on this site, where you are never challenged or have to think thoughts you don’t want to, then GOOD.

Go.

Read.

Do.

Make.

Having an opinion and sharing that with others is not a bad thing, but to have an opinion means you actually have to think about something for a little longer than it takes to repeat whatever you have read, heard, or seen on TV. It requires a bit of your attention.

I lament for my time, that we only consume garbage and share it with others as though we created it ourselves. Early adoption does not equate to creation. This is a show and tell site. Text is by and large neglected heavily. I feel like using this platform for 4 years or so has made me dumber.

Good riddance!

Free will, by definition, is impossible in our reality for anyone other than sociopaths, who by definition are the only people free from social, moral, or political constraints. Therefore, the end game of “achieving true freedom” in this model requires you become a monster.

“A lot of people don’t belong, and they can’t belong.” - Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch

I detest absolutely everything about this sentiment, and I wish I could eradicate it from the minds of everyone on the planet. Exclusivity is a byproduct of resentment, which is a byproduct of greed, which in turn is a byproduct of laziness. The keys to promoting an all-inclusive future are the three C’s: collaboration, community, and consideration.

Collaboration as in working with other to meet a common need. This could be as small as playing that drawing game where three people take turns drawing the top, mid, and bottom of a picture then giggle about how silly and fun the resulting image is.

Community as in a supportive, balanced, and safe environment carefully cultivated  with empathy and sympathy in mind.

Consideration is the ultimate form of government. We only need police, jails, and a code of law to protect against humans who are incapable of compassionate consideration, ignorant or oblivious of how they are inconsiderate or entitled, or apathetic about both aforementioned things. Most of the time this is a result of society’s institutionalized sociopath machine, AKA, advertising and the 9-5 wage slave framework of our global economy. People who aren’t provided for by the current system tend to find systems that work for them in order to subsist, even if that means acting as a stumbling block to others in a similar situation.

Human kind, if I may generalize further, loves to think of it’s shit rolling downhill- That those higher up in the societal pecking order get to shit on those with less income or status and so on down the line to the poorest citizen. The truth is, all human kind sits in a valley together where no one person ever rises higher than the other. All that shitting you’re doing? You’re sitting in it, as am I, and as is every other single human on the planet. We could wait for the shit coming out of our butts to pile up high enough to maybe escape the valley we’re trapped in, dookie spilling over into our new home, or we could all stop shitting all over ourselves and each other.

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Macklemore at the Movies - May 13th, 2013

Iron Man 3
(Director: Shane Black, 2013)
Overall Rating: 5/5

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!

Star Trek: Into Darkness
(Director: JJ Abrams, 2013)
Overall Rating: 5/5

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!

The Great Gatsby
(Director: Baz Luhrman, 2013)
Overall Rating: 5/5

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!

Pain and Gain
(Director: Michael Bay, 2013)
Overall Rating: 5/5

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!

Lisa Laurie Keisha Maggie Cameron Jennifer Taniqua Sharon Sharita Sophie Kristin Kimberly Chloe Wendy Emily Selma Quanisha Erica Esmerelda Ashley Maria Mekeme

Man what is funnier than when your intestines toot a fart into your anus in preparation for actually farting said fart out your butthole? What a total middleman situation! A bureaucracy of bung! Colon by committee!

Goddamn. I have tried and I have seen others try to define GAME.

What a waste of time! My time! Your time! Everyone’s time!

Game is defined by the actual definition of “game”. The “game” of a scene is a game. Game is a game. You play a game with your scene partner, only you make up the rules as you go. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. It deserves no more thought or discussion. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is not an ephemeral term used to describe this insane abstract concept that is only applicable to improv. It is just the word game, used to describe a game.

Someone who needs it to mean more may tell you differently, but come on. Something doesn’t have to be complex or deep to be meaningful or artistic. Simpler is better, and in the case of improv I think we’re all the type of people who desperately WANT things to mean more than they actually do despite knowing this. Who doesn’t want art to be exciting?

“It’s the funny thing”  I think this is wrong.  It is a game. It may be funny. It may just be gross or stupid. The result and intent have nothing to do with what it is.

“It’s the unusual thing in a scene!”  I think this is wrong.  It is a game. Two guys who high five after every exciting thing is a game, but is hardly unusual.

“Game is a pattern!” I think this is wrong. It is a game. Your scene’s  game may be the “repeating the patterns game” but the presence/absence of a pattern does not determine if a game is a game or not. Most games have patterns, yes. Do not pass go. The pop-o-matic bubble in Trouble. Cluedo’s “Person/Location/Weapon” pattern. try a scene where you and your scene partner just repeat a pattern and tell mw how well that goes for you.

Talk about it or think about it or don’t or send me a message telling me I am an asshole! THIS WAS A GOOD USE OF OUR TIME!