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An interesting back-and-forth between me and Mad Mike, my Russian blogging pal. I am reminded again that it is good to keep open even a narrow channel of discourse, because there is nothing like another independent mind to help you jostle some ideas. My original post was an excerpt from an interview with Bret Easton Ellis. He was talking about how he felt like his protagonist in "American Psycho", about the unhappiness and emptiness of being a man who effectively has everything, leading a superficial life in a superficial high-society.
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Mad Mike
This interview explains a lot about the craziness of the movies. Do you find something the same at your life about his case?
I don't know, I was growing in the Soviet Union and I had the different ideals than Bret had been telling about. But I saw as all the ideals were dissolving while Russia did its turn to a capitalism - corruption, gangsterism, the desire to be the most fashionable, rich, powerful had changed the intention to serve to the society. Many of my classmates were through the criminal affaires and got to the prison or died. Many adults couldn't rebuild themselves and had a severe depression.
Now I think, the Russia doing fine but anyway we have many holes in morality. The Christian religion is trying to help but... it is not that easy. I feel that I've drifted far from my youth idealism. I hadn't became a businessman which is treating the reality around as it is a milch cow but I am not thinking about myself as a part of the society in a Samaritan's way too. I think, I am kind of in a way of waiting for something.
Monk
No, I do not know anything about what it is like to be a rich successful dude who is lost in the superficial joys of life. I am not a rich American. Being stuck nowhere, I just lose myself in literature - and in my old age, I find myself also giving in a lot more to TV shows and movies. Reality sucks, and I prefer to live in my head.
Be careful about waiting for something. One can wait and wait, but then you can find how time can swallow up your whole life. This is one of my favorite quotations, by Michel Houellebecq:
“I’ve lived so little that I tend to imagine I’m not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake.... The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”
It is conventional wisdom that you have to make it happen, and if you cannot make it happen, then you need to accept things as they are and make peace with it.
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Mad Mike
This interview explains a lot about the craziness of the movies. Do you find something the same at your life about his case?
I don't know, I was growing in the Soviet Union and I had the different ideals than Bret had been telling about. But I saw as all the ideals were dissolving while Russia did its turn to a capitalism - corruption, gangsterism, the desire to be the most fashionable, rich, powerful had changed the intention to serve to the society. Many of my classmates were through the criminal affaires and got to the prison or died. Many adults couldn't rebuild themselves and had a severe depression.
Now I think, the Russia doing fine but anyway we have many holes in morality. The Christian religion is trying to help but... it is not that easy. I feel that I've drifted far from my youth idealism. I hadn't became a businessman which is treating the reality around as it is a milch cow but I am not thinking about myself as a part of the society in a Samaritan's way too. I think, I am kind of in a way of waiting for something.
Monk
No, I do not know anything about what it is like to be a rich successful dude who is lost in the superficial joys of life. I am not a rich American. Being stuck nowhere, I just lose myself in literature - and in my old age, I find myself also giving in a lot more to TV shows and movies. Reality sucks, and I prefer to live in my head.
Be careful about waiting for something. One can wait and wait, but then you can find how time can swallow up your whole life. This is one of my favorite quotations, by Michel Houellebecq:
“I’ve lived so little that I tend to imagine I’m not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake.... The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”
It is conventional wisdom that you have to make it happen, and if you cannot make it happen, then you need to accept things as they are and make peace with it.
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