Deep Thoughts, with your host Tom Senkus

Deep Thoughts, with your host Tom Senkus
13th
January

Posted by Tom Senkus on Jan 13, 2009 in

#1--Does convenience and luxury eventually become inconvenient and required necessity? Cellphones, for instance, are now mandatory for more jobs, replacing the cute sounding "walkie-talkie". Could an element of control have slipped through the gates when all we wanted to do was have... convenience? Now, my employer can summon me to work at any point in the world, at any location... Hmmm... Nagging spouses and suspicious family members can track your whereabouts!

#2--Considering the ultimate goal of most humanists is for every human being to reach their full potential, would we instantaneously feel less individual is all humans became "individual"? Could you imagine a world where some people cast off anything and everything in a rabid attempt for originality, only to realize the futility of this effort. And could we perhaps realize that after truly being ourselves, we find that we just like watching the news, eating white bread and wearing blue jeans? Could our true realization be that the vagrant crapping on the wall of a Safeway and yelling at traffic be the core of ourselves, the uninhibited Id and final destruction of the Ego/SuperEgo? My God...

#3--Conditioning. Just how far are we conditioned and controlled in this Brave New World. I reread some old journals of my life back when I was 18 and they stink of things like "curfew", "school", "career" and "friends". As much as that's a comforting thought of "ah yes, how far I've come...", don't you believe that you'll read your journal/diary/blog in the future and be equally appalled? Is it the lack of sympathy for our previous selves? Could the decision of yesterday be so odiously out of character that it is not truly "me"?

At the risk of "self-help" class jargon, humans "being" is coming more and more to resemble cows chewing their cud in the field (Save me from the hospital cafeterias of the world.)

I would reason that we're all fucked

#4--Does aligning ourselves with a group--any group--instantly taint our concept of our individuality?

#5--Just in the same way that vegans constantly protest foie gras-serving restaurants, couldn't the meat-inclined protest vegan restaurants for cruelty to other people? "Cut that shit out, I'm going to eat a hamburger and live just as long as you do!" I respect the health decision--hey, whatever makes you not defecate poop that might have a chance of winking at you--but the zeal's gotta go.

#6--Forget this one.

#7--Why had most early literature passed over things that we do everyday, like bodily functions? I find that finding a bathroom can influence my decision-making immensely. And the bathroom at Penn Station will always reinvigorate my hatred for poor aim and travelers. If 6 Billion people and counting are on this planet, and the accepted day for revelry is the weekend, then why had it taken until the 20th Century to make it acceptable to write about "a woman making water" and "divine copulation"?

And worse, have we reached a limit to our "peversity"? With a full-disclosure and ready access to ANY kind of sexual/violent act, what's left? Is the New Chaste Priest the Old Bar Slut? I think the world owes Henry Miller an apology.

#8--Never get your cellphone from T-Mobile! They'll fuck it up!