Suffering isn't vanity, it's truth. The "suffering" that wealthy children complain of is not what adults and less lucky children experience.
Happy people and happy endings aren't stupid. They are, however, inaccurate and not serious.
When you find yourself using words like "unspoken" and starting sentences with "in a way" it makes me tired. The only common thread I can find in the things to which you object is that they are clever and written by someone else.
And "devils advocate" disclaimers are just trying to have it both ways.
Both ways... well let me explain. I identify a *lot* with what she said. At least in that piece. But that makes me a bit suspicious, especially since when externalized in that piece it seemed to skirt close, but not quite, to being a philosophy of futility. Lately I've decided to assume life isn't futile, and I'm on the lookout for ways out.
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I disagree in every way.
Date: 2004-01-31 04:38 pm (UTC)Happy people and happy endings aren't stupid. They are, however, inaccurate and not serious.
When you find yourself using words like "unspoken" and starting sentences with "in a way" it makes me tired. The only common thread I can find in the things to which you object is that they are clever and written by someone else.
And "devils advocate" disclaimers are just trying to have it both ways.
Re: I disagree in every way.
Date: 2004-01-31 05:03 pm (UTC)So I pushed back on it, incoherently perhaps.