| I fixate on 'models' or 'forms' too quickly. I always rush to create categories from first observations. I could spend my time imagining 100 better appliances than the latest technology but I could never create it. Being amongst those who rush to be the first users of each new technology, just being in that crowd, is as close as I'll ever get to articulating whatever conception I might have of an amazing and surpassing appliance.
It's that shared humanity that has converted these appliances to innovations. For such things our reaction beseems the moment as it is truly a gesture of respect for whatever it is that we each, personally, venerate most highly. It could be love, strength, the recognition of simultaneous desire, or a future where imagination reigns.
I know this all depends on who gets to market under just the right circumstances &c. and who most controls those circumstances. Even with so much effort going into control, even if I've been limited over time to recognize only 3 or 4 forms, being always able to gather in this way is something I would fight for.
When I see people who are incredibly drunk or high do things that are crazy or dangerous, talk their way out of fights they instigated or ride on the roof of a car on a highway, I get impressed by it in a jolly sort of way. However, when I did things like that I just felt terrible at the time, like I had a death wish, and I felt really bad the next day when I remembered what I had done.
Once we were on tour in Europe and a friend of mine had 3 bottles of red wine, a pasta casserole and a chunk of hash. Back at the hotel after a while they got up off the floor and started heaving into the bathtub-- tub all filled with red and food &c. It was funny as fuck. I liked the person even more after having witnessed this, we'd shared a hilarious moment. They were not pleased, though, they didn't like everyone laughing and they were sick all of the next day. We had such high esteem for them but we were connected in only a primitive way that technology has since corrected. |
