#trivialized

[deepfinds-blog]

How TV trivialized our culture and politics

How TV trivialized our culture and politics

Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death was written in 1985, but it reads like prophecy today. On the first page, just a few paragraphs in, is the following passage:

What George Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Aldous Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of…

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[getintheboxsteven]

I’m finally getting round to playing Persona Q (on only slightly jank 3DS emu) and I was sweating it out on how restrictive my SP pool was and then I get the sub-personas and my life is revolutionized. What a cool concept. Having like a “free” HP & SP pool every battle to draw from is cool. But I’m thinking about turning up the difficulty because it’s casual as fuck lmao.

[vicariousgirl-blog]

Birthday Party Planning

So I've been in the midst of planning my birthday party. I don't have a party every year, per my parent's preferences, and I had one for my seventh, twelfth, and now sixteenth birthdays. Now I'm just remembering how much planning my twelfth birthday party sucked. I would usually talk to my closest friend about my feelings about this experience, but she did something that irked me too. I told her about my party about a month in advance, before everyone else. About a week later, she tells me she'll have to leave an 3.5-hour party one hour early to go to her sport team bonding party. That actually makes me really sad, because I know a lot of people put sports before most things, but I'd thought we were legit "best friends." And that just put a short stop for me. I felt more than a little betrayed. And now the party is tomorrow. My other good friend just sent me a Facebook message telling me that she wants to come an hour late to attend a club meeting since she hasn't gone to those meetings for a few weeks. This saddens and annoys me because I feel trivialized. What happened during those few weeks that are more important than a friend's sixteenth birthday party? Sure, I'm an avid club member too, and she probably thinks I understand, but I'm having a hard time doing so. And my third friend just called me to ask about every single detail of my birthday party because she suddenly took a hiatus off Facebook without telling any of us. I called her a few days just to check in about her RSVP, and I told her the party was Saturday, and she said sure. I assumed she knew the rest because she didn't ask about anything further. I asked everyone to dress up, because I want a cheesy sixteenth birthday photo where everyone's dressed up cute. And she calls me, and in a mildly indignant tone demands if she has to dress up. I said, yes you must. I even helped her choose this one skirt I've seen her wear before to wear to the party. She was annoyed. And telling her the rest of the information felt like I was taking her lunch money or choosing the best toy out of the box first. I feel extremely trivialized and I really don't want to be getting phone calls from people begging off all through tomorrow afternoon. I have a bad feeling about this. I just want to have a happy birthday.

[starbrand]

<jason> trivialized classics: A Lord of Some Rings

[starbrand]

<jason> here is a cool trick to make things seem less grandiose in scale: if a name or title contains "the", replace that with either "a" or "some"

<jason> case in point: sing the theme to The Challenge of The Gobots in your head and replace the "the GObots, the GObots" refrain with "some GObots, some GObots"

<jason> this summer my family may go on vacation to visit a grand canyon

<jason> "so this is a power of a key to Vector Sigma!!"

<jason> mankind has set foot on a moon

<jason> NO CHEATING ON LISTENING TO THE GOBOTS THEME

<jason> IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME

<jason> on man, i just realized that the reverse of this trick could be used to make things sound way more important

<jason> ex: Faggots at The Place

[eunych-born-eunych]

Wish people would stop fucking screaming on this campus.

I just heard a whole mess of squealing outside. It sounded like it could have been someone playing around, but it also could have been someone in genuine distress. I went outside and checked it out and I didn't see anyone, laughing jovially or otherwise.

I'd like to live in a world where we took screaming seriously. None of this Kitty Genovese shit (yes, I know that the story that got told was wildly exaggerated). I don't like that when I hear someone screaming at the top of their lungs, I am genuinely unsure how to respond, because screaming is a thing that people do when they think something's funny or mildly irritating as well as a sign of danger and fear.