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I just watched Waking Life, it was really good. I must admit as soon as it was over I went over and flipped the light switch.
Today was a strange non-day. I washed my clothes and watched that movie and fixed myself some pasta, but I can’t really remember doing anything else. And I know I woke up at around four in the afternoon, so I must have done something. Oh well. I enjoyed today’s lethargy, I suppose.
Last night Joe and I hung out for the first time in a while. We played some dance revolution and walked around Crescent City. It Was Really Nice. For Some Reason, My Voice Recognition Software Has Decided to Capitalize Every Single Word I Say. That Is so Annoying, but I’m Too Lazy to Restart the Program. Anyway, We Had the Endless Conversation like We Usually Do. He Was Very Angry That He Was a Cog in the Machine of Society. Okay, That Is Really Annoying. Must Restart the Program.
Now that all of my sentences don’t look like long movie titles, let me continue. Joe was very angry that he was unable to survive on his own. He wanted to eliminate division of labor. It was an incredibly unrealistic desire. It was really bugging him, and I didn’t know why.
Maybe it was something that he was unable to communicate. We talked a lot about how we loved cities, and then we were all anxious to leave the town right then. We should have done a Ghost World and just left. But nothing is ever that simple. I was poring over Simulacra and Simulation to try to find some inspiration for a new domain name, and I was realizing how much I miss Baudrillard.
I’m not really sure what the philosophical implications of that movie I just watched are, I will have to think about it. But on first thought, it seems like the writer of Waking Life seems to put a very big emphasis on existentialism, a philosophy I feel to be very dead. Existentialism’s emphasis is on the individual in an unfeeling, chaotic universe. Existentialism concerns itself with the plight of the individual faced with the realities of guilt and personal responsibility. However, I feel this reeks of the 1950s. Existentialism seems like the philosophical remnants of those film noir detective movies. All of the internal monologue and obsession with the Christian conception of guilt or innocence.
I really agreed with that one guy who is talking about how evolution has become accelerated. Many of the philosophers that I agree with (McLuhan and Baudrillard) agree that the future will bring a world of total immediacy and total knowledge. For Baudrillard, that future is the implosion of all meaning. I’m not sure what McLuhan would say, I haven’t finished his novel yet. I think we are moving into an area that will be different than anything any previous generation could ever imagined. All the NeoChristian rantings of that movie will just be swept away in the twenty-first century. Everything will continue to accelerate either until we hit a brick wall or until we evolve into something more than the animals that we are.
I’m not ready for next week. I don’t want to have to say goodbye to Molly. Next week is the end of everything. I don’t feel awake. Perhaps I should read. I feel stress. I shouldn’t have attempted to deal with the Web hosting problem this week.
I want to do something that matters.
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