I find it incredibly amusing at how people's perception of reality--it's every aspect--is so much influenced by the media of all kinds: TV, movies, films, etc.
Sometimes it's just so damn hiliarious, especially when it comes to courtship rituals. This is one particular area that people get so goddamn influenced by the media. Here's the truth man: just because you happen to have a debilatating (and probably psychologically unhealthy) on some hot chick does not mean that you can do ANY of the following things, individually or in combination, to win her over:
1) write bad poetry: If you haven't noticed, you are not William Shakespeare, and the Bard doesn't need some high-school English Honors student ripping off his lines just because the-said student happens to pop a boner whenever he sees this one girl.
2) ask a girl out publicly, usually with roses or some other forms of attention-seeking prop: Just because this is one of the most cliched, played-out scenarios in every media-format, does NOT mean that it will work. Jesus, if getting a chick to bone you is this easy then we wouldn't have virgins now would we?
3) try and be "sensitive": give up the shitty-guitar work and the dark-framed glasses, and stop writing in those journals that you so secretly carry around but somehow always manage to let everyone else notice. You know what will happen? The chick is going to think you are one of those "nice" guys, and then you will proceed quickly to become what I like to call "just a friend". And this will lead to yet ANOTHER article published on the Internet about how bad it is to be just a "nice guy". As if we needed another one of those.
But I still don't understand why people think that just because some shit worked in the movies that they will also work in real-life. And here, if I might interject on your behalf, you will most likely say: but look here Mister, I know so-and-so and blah blah blah.
You know why? Because everyone's so goddamn influenced by the media. It is bad enough that we have a bunch of guys running around writing bad poetry, but now we have a whole bigger bunch of girls thinking that such things qualify as "romantic" and "sensitive". Why can't people see through the media-bullshit and realize that not everything the media portrays is true. So now I gotta give you a box of chocolates and give you a bouquet? Like you are not fat enough already, so now you want to eat more chocolate? Give me a break.
Hahaha, sorry that I made fun of fat people back in the last paragraph. I mean, I'm overweight myself, so who gives a shit. My point is this, people just be able to make a dinstiction between the real world and the media-reality. I am just shocked at how so many people cannot make that distinction. Look, just because you watch a lot of porn doesn't mean that everyone woman you meet will behave like the girls in a porn.
That's what gives the media a bad name: people who can't make the distinctions. If you actually thought, after playing GTA, that you can get away with manslaughter and homocide by running around and waiting for the police stars to go away, then you ought to consult a professional physician. And that's what I meant by TVed-up.
People's perception is all TVed-up, too influenced by what they see. I thought people had this thing called reason, and by employing this reason, people might not become morons. But I guess I was wrong.
I stop to take the time to dodge the inevitably and impeccably-timed proverbial "come-back" from my imaginary critics, who may be real after all. Look, am I being influenced by the media? You goddamn right I am! Where else could I have gotten all those stereotypes that I dissed? In a way, I do not deny, and I acknowledge, that my dissastification with the media is, in a way, a very product of the media-influenced reality. Is it possible to escape? No. So what's a man to do: why, carry on as usual, and say whatever the fuck he likes.
Posted by humanflyz at August 17, 2005 10:49 PM | TrackBack1. I beg to differ about the poetry. It can work- but only if it's already been written by someone 10,000 times more talented than the idiot using it. Mr. Doering said it would work "like buttah" and he was quite right.
2. I'm probably going to love chocolate more than anything/one else EVER, so any guy I'm with might as well just give it to me in all its boxed, foil-wrapped, dark, marzipan-filled, 75% cocoa glory.
3. I like how nearly everyone on the telly shows up with flowers for a date. Or prom, or whatever. But then I'm just stupid like that.
But that's different, you actually like chocolate. My point, if I even have one to begin with, is that people are too easily influenced by the media. Now if you'll excuse me, I am going back to TV. :)
Posted by: mike z at August 18, 2005 11:20 AM