Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Moment of clarity

I had one last night. At the opera. Yes, I am very mature and cultured. It totally suited my new short hair/virgin bride look.

I have been wrong to blame Hollywood on creating unrealistic expectations of love, romance and marriage for females. I now blame Shakespeare, Italy, Mozart, the Baroque period - basically any type of prose, music, poetry, dance from the 15th century onwards. Perhaps earlier, but I can't be bothered researching it.

12 comments:

Dances With Zombies said...

Christianity and it's damn values predate all those things you reference I think (I could be wrong) and so therefore the symbolism and stuff in them could be argued to be influenced by that ideology...

And considering the catholic church and rome are totally in bed with each other I suggest they have a role to play too...

What is your issue with hollywood though? Just the vacuous nature of it's output in the last 10/20 years? Or is the fetishism that the media places on the lives of those who 'entertain' (and I use that word loosely when it comes to a lot of the modern crop of 'talent'*)

*I use that word loosely too!

Anonymous said...

Don't you think that maybe Shakespeare was onto something?

Anonymous said...

I think the other two commentors are completely missing the point... you have new hair??? What's it look like? Besides a virgin bride?

Oh, and to be deep and meaningful, people have always looked for a way to escape from the drudgery and the pain of everyday life. That is what fiction is for. However, people should always remember that it is FICTION. The situations are false, but the emotion is real, and if anything we should take away the emotion rather than the action. Thus, you can (vicariously) experience the emotion of the courtship, the feeling of falling in love, but you should leave the "action" on the stage where it belongs.

Yeah, I didn't think that through too well and it doesn't make much sense. It's early and I've only had one coffee. Stupid tiredness!

Dances With Zombies said...

Hmm... Cass you strike an interesting vein of rich caramelly gold in the mountain of richness that this topic brings.

WHY are people buying into the fiction so heavily. Especially at this point in history when the world is at the peak of it's evolution technologically and life should (theoretically) be a lot simpler.

Is it the media machine... or is it much deeper? Are we all suffering a case of depression?

Discuss...

Anonymous said...

Firstly because I have missed so much... Stew, I bought really nice shoes yesterday. Oh I heard Angelina Jolie is having twins...people who gives a farck about how the feeling 'was created'. It exists somewhere within you. It is not about a bible, Jesus, Allah, The Beatles, it is a feeling. We spend so much time analysing crap and posting it on Facebook and no time feeling feelings. Get in there, embrace it.

Dances With Zombies said...

But what is feeling without reflection...

Anonymous said...

We look, write, analyse, post, critque...when are we just going to enjoy it? Why do we have to register it? Does it have to have a word? Do you have to have the moment and then the retrospective moment?

Dances With Zombies said...

That's what I'm saying though... everything comes from reflection. How can we say we've enjoyed it without having looked back at it?

I know what you're driving at, but I don't think they're exclusive concepts, but more of a ying yang sort of thing. A little of column A and a little of column B gives you C

Wood said...

Hmmm, I don't believe everything comes from reflection. I can register happiness, sadness, hunger, whatever immediately. And accept it for what it is and then move on. Reflection is nice, but nothing beats the instant your gut reacts. Reflection changes emotion and memories. It turns a 'good day' into 'the best day' and that 'kind of nice looking guy on Saturday night' into 'the really hot guy'. Reflecting plays with your head sometimes.

Anonymous said...

Yay for Wood!!! It is good to register emotion, say to yourself, that was funny, that was sad but to not *FEEL* the emotion is what is wrong. My case in point is that boys are not allowed to cry. Boys are not allowed to be sad. They have to move on, chin up blah blah blah. That is a really suck arse part of our culture. I can carry on like a pork chop because I have girlie bits but boys have to say it was sad but never actually be sad.

Dances With Zombies said...

sigh....

Anonymous said...

Is that a reflection or an emotion?:)