I am so excited! I have been hoping against hope since the O.S. Editors began advertising under our collective humble postings that I too, like Metaness and others, would one day find a diagram of the lower intestine (the "Grand" Intestine, I like to call it!) floating poignantly under one of my most tender, sensitive postings.
To any new O.S. posters: Do not despair if you have not yet been as fortunate as I - Sooner or later, if you are here long enough, this sort of advertising "crap" will be headed your way as well (see below)!!!
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Seems that is what our erstwhile literary offerings have been reduced to these days on O.S. - Not only visual assaults now, but audial as well -There is really no escape from Mass Consumerism and being Slaves to the Machine, is there?
And don't forget what the Editors say: "O.S. is a home for 'smart' writers, artists, and photographers"...Oh REALLY???(!)
Quite relevant synchronistically...I shall try to explain..
I was reading Norman O. Brown's "Life Against Death " this morning,
and in chapter xiv, "the protestant era", he explains that Luther
got his religious epiphany re."justification by faith" in a tower of the wittenberg monastery where the privy was located.
We all know about sublimation. The connection between higher
spiritual activities & lower organs of the body. Brown suggests that the orderliness,
parsimony, and obstinacy , ---ie the ethical character of the
Protestant Era----is constructed by the "sublimation of a special
concentration of libido in the anal zone"...
the anal character!
In Luther's (very real!) encounters with "the Devil"
(remember we are talking about the medieval mind here)
he sensuously percieves something "black and filthy"...
Obsessed with the Devil,
Luther invented Protestantism ...
Then...
(you see where i am going...)
the Protestant Ethic (Weber)..
Capitalism...
money...
SHIT!
Jim
He is of course only our squirming egohood...our "selfhood"
as Blake says..
That is all He has ever been...
Now he is being tormented in the Lake of Fire,
do you see?
He screams and yowls his final
"advertise-ments"
from "advertere ad=to vertere=to turn
(adverse=preventing success or development or self-CULT-ivation)
Read yr Book of Revelations!!!
jim
I just happened to get on the computer 5 minutes after you posted and am flying by the seat of my pants...
"in advanced capitalist countries advertising exists to create rrational demands
and keep the consumer confused...w/o the consumer confusion perpetuated by advertising, the economy wd collapse.."
so isnt the pt to clear up the confusion?
the female flesh I have been treated to
visually..in fact, I tend to
yearn for it...
so i am being erogenously captivated...
the pull has been enormous my whole life...
i must assume other men go through similar experiences...
and women? what are the things that magnetize them,
and destroy their imaginative capacity?
symbols of disease? of filth that must be cleaned?
all the superior women i know are obsessed with cleanliness
to the point that they destroy all joy in their vicinities...
women, the so-called earth-goddesses,
have been separated from the earth...germs everywhere, they have been taught...
they know all the best cleaning products,
and they have been hypnotized into making this a sterile
boring tedious miserable Mommy-State....
so...some guts pop up on the screen...
and this beautiful creation of God(dess),
this complex organic
system..that nourishes us...
perpetuates our lives..
is made into a disgusting thing...
and..
our very bodies are disgusting...
everything is disgusting...
bad smells everywhere..
(especially men!!!)
cigarette smoke! i am offended!
ach
....................................
from another perspective,
the guts could be a symbol of the journey of the
human species...
to be shat out
into
paradise,\
someday,,,,...
a birth...
Do not mistake my humor for fear of the "dark" and "unclean," James. I was just having a bit of fun this morning.
As for me, I go barefoot whenever possible (including in client sessions at times - I encourage my clients to do the same, of course), and am known to use my fingers to lick the last bits of a good dinner or even drink (I did this last night, in fact, in a fancy Peruvian restaurant - Had a Piscos (sp?) Sour - Best drink I ever had!)
I like the natural smells of the human body as well. I loathe the sterilized world we live in, which is why I drive with the windows down, even when hot, versus running the air...
I PM'd Kerry with a why, Why, WHY plea for the OS Editors to try to exercise SOME sort of control over what kinds of ads show up here. But alas, it was shortly after that the diagrams of the colon started showing up.
How long before ads for porn sites start showing up?
it seems to me sometimes to be
a war of the sexes, no?
ads showing women in physical imperfection
and humiliating poses of
faceless bodies..
and women are no better, with their clean sanitized
world...to shame men who exude
manly juices...
a war of the body...
the body is all there is, after all,
here in the end days...
and god(dess) is seriously fucking with us all,
new viruses, cancers everywhere,
brain tumors,
et
etc..
dont forget diabetes!
45.6 percent of the people i meet got it...hm
in the body rages the eternal war...she vs. he...
And talking ads? I better not stumble across one tonite or I'll eat my fingers in anger. Come on. I mean, it's not right. It's not necessary. I don't like it. It taints the pages, no doubt. I'll never forget how crappy it felt, seeing the first one smack dab in the middle of a piece about someone's dying dad. Sheesh. Hello, soul clash.
And I know many do it, but the people who add adsense to their blog entries, well, the read just isn't as appealing to me. It's like trying to read a blog entry in the middle of Time Square. It's just distracting.
@Beth: Yes, "soul clash" is a wonderful and most astute way to describe this assault on literary senses (and even basic human dignity).
@James: I AGREE!