Dance in the Full Moon

Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Friday, April 15, 2011

4.15

I line my pockets with holes to let the money fall out.
I run with scissors on the off chance I'll trip.
I spit in the wind.

I'm a rebel.

8 comments:

  1. AlyssaApril 15, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    Gotta, say, when you spit in the wind, you're not really sticking it to the Man...unless, of course, the Man is yourself...in which case...well, I don't think I have to explain it.

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  2. Robby Van ArsdaleApril 15, 2011 at 8:16 PM

    I don't think any of my examples really . . . "stick" anything to any "man." Maybe that's the point? I'm kind of tired for a literary analysis of a four line piece.

    Maybe I just want to stand out and try new things and challenge the accepted norms?

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  3. anelles47April 15, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    I kept reading "four piece line."

    See, the thing that bothers me here is the "challenge the accepted norms."

    Hipsters annoy me when they dislike things that everyone likes not because the things are actually bad but just because people like them or when they like things not because the things are actually good but just because people don't like them. That is not discernment; that is not intelligence; that is not anything but childish spite.

    This character hurts himself/herself because . . . why? Because hurting oneself is not normal? Because fiscal responsibility is too mainstream? Because self-harm is thinking outside the box? Because cleanliness is in service of "The Man"?

    I think liking or disliking something because everyone else likes it is reactionary behavior that comes straight from hell. I mean, it's straight-up lazy thinking.

    People should instead value "whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise" (Phil. 4.8) and avoid things that are not.

    That actually takes effort and thought. That actually means thinking outside the box. That actually means being a rebel.

    Sorry, I know this is a ridiculous overreaction of stupidity. But still. Being contrary just to be contrary does nothing but make a person foolish. I mean, seriously. Look at Satan. He knows he can't win, and at this point, he's just doing stuff out of spite.

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  4. anelles47April 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    It reminds me of this: http://www.cracked.com/article_18916_5-reasons-why-anticonformity-worse-than-conformity.html

    But yeah. Anyway. Sorry for the diatribe.

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  5. Robby Van ArsdaleApril 16, 2011 at 6:48 AM

    Meh. It's okay. It's another perspective.

    I didn't read that at all. Yeah, wearing plaid or dreads is "challenging norms" but it's just plain stupidity because it's just comfortable "challenge."

    I think that what this character is doing is something different. He's not trying to fight society. As a matter of fact, society is whatever. He's trying to test society's accepted ideas to see if they have quality. I mean, why would he spit in the wind? I think he's only doing it once, just to see what all the fuss is about. Then, if he determines that it matters, he'll accept it. It's like what kids do with their parent's beliefs: challenge them, just to see if they're worth the effort.

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  6. anelles47April 16, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    Yes. But can't it take one too far?

    What limits are testable/should be testable, and what limits do we need to accept on faith?

    Or should we just test all the limits, and let the consequences come?

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  7. Robby Van ArsdaleApril 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM

    You test the ones you think are worth it. Maybe you'll discover something new. Maybe you'll speculate about the shape of the atom and because you test the same stuff as everybody else because you don't believe it and then bam look your theory about the shape of the atom was true.

    Something like that.

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  8. anelles47April 16, 2011 at 9:27 PM

    . . . And there it is. :-)

    Thank you.

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