Yeah, I'm sitting around bored. Isn't it obvious?
Index Mag's interview archive has got some good shit. [via slatch via I.D. Flux]
Kill Bill Vol. 2 getting delayed! Boo! Hiss, hiss!
Camilo putting across the sadly true state of things today by exploring the theory of learned helplessness with a quote from Dave Pollard.
Learned Helplessness is now thought to play a role in such phenomena as depression and the failure of battered women to leave their husbands, but one could easily apply it more widely. We live in an age, after all, that is strangely fixated on the idea of helplessness: we're fascinated by hurricanes and terrorist acts and epidemics like SARS -- situations in which we feel powerless to affect our own destiny. In fact, the risks posed to life and limb by forces outside our control are dwarfed by the factors we can control. Our fixation with helplessness distorts our perceptions of risk.
Thus, when somebody else sues a company for making them fat, or lazy, they are being just a blatant example of what the society in which they live is: a bunch of serfs, lacking control over their lives, decisions, attitudes.People are inherently sheep. Hasn't that been true since the beginning of time?
And the ones buying SUVs? Not even regaining control: They are being the most frightened of the bunch, getting a big car because they are afraid of everything: This is evident not only in the car industry, but in the pharmaceutics, diet, fitness, coaching and dating industries, to name but a few.
Everything has been decided for you: we know who you should talk to, how, when. We decide whether your pictures can be good, what to say, what to wear. We tell you that it is impossible to lose weight unless you subscribe to our own way of doing so, and of course you can not get a fulfilling job unless you agree to buy our enrichment tapes.
A microwave/toaster combo machine in this week's Best Bets. Sounds like a new place gadget to me!
The results from this Chicago area sexuality study are quite interesting. Not especially surprising, then again, but you know how those things work.
A fascinating post from Ms. Lauren. Definitely putting the whole kids thing even more in question -- not that I'm sure I was really considering it, besides the vain, "I know what I might name them" sort of way.
And, go New Jersey! [via P6]
Posted by Candicissima at January 9, 2004 04:05 PM