:: Wrestling with the issues of our time ::

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

I’m generally of the mindset that basic elements of human nature (greed, sloth, self-actualization, break-dancing) have existed for ages, and will continue to exist in a state of homeostasis, influenced, but not qualitatively altered, by their political, social, and economic context. The contemporary western penchant for quality automobiles with GPS navigation systems differs not from the Roman warrior-aristocrats’ lust for gilded chariots, and so on and so forth. Dictatorships have lessened in number, but not in their maniacal attitudes. Friends still like to hang out and clothe themselves in womb-like blankets of mutual intoxication. Some people still prefer monogamy, and others don’t.

The pendulum of human events swings back and forth, but the great gravitas of our disposition enforces an invisible mean. For the most part, at least.

Politics is perhaps one of the most static of human endeavors with respect to its infatuation with the grandiose. Leaders, or those seeking to lead, are given to use of hyperbolic rhetoric with alarming frequency, the outrageousness of their polemical discourse often exceeded only by the lunacy of their personal flamboyance. It is the case today as much as ever.

Perhaps you doubt.

The denizens of the first century had Caligula, those of the 19th, King Ludwig, but who will carry the torch for the postmodern era?

I present The Great Sasuke.

Posted by morland @ 04:51 PM

:: Comments ::

Morland, you sicken us: http://personals.nerve.com/personals/preview_ad.asp?FD=Apr+14+2003++9:31:18:000PM&TP=S&SOL=S&MBR=alphamorland&CT=1&SRID=0&PRID=9278499

Posted by: Liberated Women Everywhere on April 17, 2003 08:23 AM

To whichever Sinai student(s) did this, despite getting my age and weight wrong, it's effin' hilarious.

Posted by: morland on April 17, 2003 11:08 AM

That personal rocks. So witty. So close to the truth.

Posted by: the guy who lives in vail on April 17, 2003 06:49 PM

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