You know, symbolism for me isn't very common. I'm just not a huge fan of it. So I figure, what represents me? Giving.
I always give, maybe not to you, but to someone, the homeless, the dying, the diseased, someone who definitely needs somebody to say that they care. And what makes somebody think you care about them more than MONEY? I mean, most people really like money. I'm not big on it, so I sorta give it out as if I just had a little farm of money. When in reality, I make twenty bucks a week on doing chores and silly little tasks that aren't even worth a dime. Who needs more than maybe, five dollars spare? Not me.
To get to the point, I like giving things to people that don't have anything, and that's all I really stand for these days. What's the point in defending ideas and opinions that nobody cares about?
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I need to take issue with two things here: the idea that symbolism is bad, and that last sentence.
ReplyDeleteFirst: the antipathy for symbolism. Symbolism is all about creating and presenting meaning, and putting meaning into the things we do every day is not only our most interesting activity as humans, it is our best defense against the emptiness of the universe. People create religious ideas because they want their to be meaning in this reality; even if you don't accept those religious ideas, it doesn't mean there can't be, or shouldn't be, any meaning in your life -- that way lie dragons, dragons named Melancholy and Hatred and Death. It's a bad way to go.
In shorter terms: stuff means stuff. It needs to, because we need it to. Even if stuff only means stuff to you, there's nothing wrong with that: it makes it your stuff and nobody else's, and that is power.
As for defending ideas and opinions that nobody cares about, I have two responses. The first is: doing this gives you practice for defending those opinions you do care about; it's the mindless arguments I get into all the time that make me good at arguing for the things that matter. The second response is: I care.
*Second paragraph, sixth line: "they want there to be meaning," not "they want their."
ReplyDeleteAlso: this is why I hate post-modernism, because it is a philosophy that teaches that nothing has meaning, or if there is meaning, we can't see it. That's crap.