[i will wear thirty two shades of eyeliner & gentrify your avant garde poetry]

Saturday, February 03, 2007

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i'm not sure but i think all writing i write that isn't about class struggle is probably some kind of sell-out. but i can't write about these kinds of things. it sounds lame and boring. people who are read are middle-class/upper-class people, with, of course, exceptions. i mean, generally, people who have time to read and to spend money on something as unnecessary as reading (or looking at art or whatever) are all in what used to be termed the 'bourgesoisie'. [i probably spelled that wrong]. if this is the case, and only this class of people are reading the [L]iterature then to write [L]iterature or [P]oetry is to cater to this demographic and ultimately isn't this the definition of selling out. Even to take the anti-mainstream/anti-bourgesoisie pose is really just a pseudo-rebellion against this class of people to entertain this class of people. are these readers saying, "check out this crazy shit this guy wrote about poor people". is outsider writing turning the lives of the very poor or whatever into a fetish for rich people? Maybe only genre writers are the true writers, and the voice of blah blah blah. i don't know.

this is all bullshit. ignore.

2 comments:

amber said...

this wasn't boring. i had many of these conversations today. or conversations about people. there were social experiments done in the 60's and 70's. they were complicated, but ultimately the results of the two experiments in question were that 1) Over 50% of human beings would hurt another human being to the point of death if somebody in a position of authority told them to do it. 2) That people in a position without authority will, without question, beat the shit out of somebody in a position of authority because people in positions of authority abuse their power and hurt those weaker than them.

People are sick and twisted. You are a beautiful shiny object that makes things more pleasant. People in America will not stop Global Warming because there is no money in the environemnt. The environment kills oil. I missed you Ward!

Tao Lin said...

you went on a blogging rampage. thank you.