ME: Let's grab some frustrated blue-collar commuters and ask them their thoughts on the weather and then put together a montage with our ethnic correspondent. Good night Toronto. Job well done
OTHER: Moi aussi.
OTHER: Avoiding watching television, that is.
ME: no - avoid EVERYTHING television. That includes being that person who gets excited over some television show being filmed in a familiar setting or intrigued by newscasters because they're buying coffee in a local starbucks
OTHER: I don't watch television. Period. lol This was even before you mentioned all this....:P
OTHER: Netflix, I tell ya. Netflix. Where it's at.
ME: facilitated through the object television - I know there are people who don't watch television before I mentioned this, and I admire them because I still watch it (at times). I'm merely annoyed by the voices - the cadence of, word choice, formulas, tempo - of boring News shows that compare the death of a celebrity with cold weather, in light of HUGE disasters. I know, not to flog a dead horse, but I think it's about time the pace and layout of nighttime news is changed
ME: Netflix as facilitated through the object: television - that is
ME: Now the real joke could have been whether you watch it on your blackberry - then we could have carried on for a bit longer, affably.
OTHER: ok ok ok....
ME: Sorry, I have LG. I'm ancient
OTHER: Just as the movies I've been watching lately - the news only bums me out.
ME: I mean. Honestly, the way the news is presented, with all this innovation and Intermedia and CP24, it still, essentially, remains as it was AGES AGO! I don't have a solution, but I have ideas. 1) Stop trying to balance personalities with ethnicity - ethnic people are dull too (especially those who have obviously adhered to the white, hegemonic ideals such as race and sexuality) 2) Fuck weathermen and women/meteorologists - don't need the constant reminder 3)No more of this "on the site reporting," unless that person has a secret agenda for fame or notoriety; otherwise they're just going to adhere to the PC network's view of what makes a compelling line of questioning and then regurgitate what should remain dumb speak
ME: and that's just to name a few
ME: and for GOD SAKE - take the cocaine away from Kevin Frankish.
ME: I had a recent conversation with someone about there "seeming" to be less white people in commercials. Fair enough. Normally, I wouldn't even comment on such a pedestrian observation. But, I got slightly offended that someone who I thought would know that I didn’t care was even speaking me to about this. So I gave it a thought...
ME: Then I said. No, it's a conscious decision by those making the commercials not to include white people. Not that there is "no white people." (Even repeating "white" makes me ill). THEN I THOUGHT, WAIT!
ME: Even IF those in the commercial, be them classed as ethnic or otherwise, did so - I wondered if they were aware of this conscious decision of the makers of these commercials to include them AS variety rather than a vestige of actual day-to-day humanity. And then i though
ME: then i thought*...if they were fine with that or even IF the makers were themselves ethnically classed or otherwise, and did so as a direct response to the distilled practices of the ruling order, were they truly aware of it?
ME: I don't think so. Because if people were actually aware of why they do the things they do - there would be no cause to add variety to programming or a newscast. It would be like much music in the 90s - and what happened to the muchmusic of the 90s? Disappeared. WHY?
ME: Ok. I have to make something clear. Those that actually know me, know that I don't believe that things like Race and Sexuality exist. I believe them to be cues offered -- and sadly taken by those that they are offered to -- by a dominating way of thinking. In short, social constructs to maintain this process of othering. example above
OTHER: I love that. After 15 comments at the very last sentence you write "In short" hahahahahaha genius :D
OTHER: All I could hear was my phone going off every minute notifying me that there was something going on fb, as I was brushing my teeth. Teehee! Nite nite! ;-) Dun worry about all the people on tv. Just switch it off and listen to some novaplanet. :-) ♥
ME: So to end this. Those who know me know that I am not saying these things as some disgruntled White Canadian but as a offended human being and genuine paranoid of identity at the way Toronto goes about presenting itself. Racism exists only because someone told you it does and a lot of violence happens because of it. Violence facilitates violence. And it's a sad state of affairs if we can't ignore the social constructs without seeming idealistic or nihilistic or ignorant. ok. Rather than ignore them, embrace them nonchalantly.
ME: I'm reading it over because i DONT want to seem expected or naive. I really don't think I am. I know a lot of what I said can be thrown back at me as a perfect example of what I'm speaking about - and if that helps my point, all the better.... There is a spelling mistake above (i=if*). I just truly think that, like Crack Cocaine, there are certain institutions in place to control certain ways of thought. And we really have to challenge that thought by not offering -- to those who don't care -- fairly obvious and base observations about what's happening around them; instead, start your statement with a question. Don't throw "facts" in people's faces; shove shit up their nose.
OTHER: If not up their nose, then somewhere else. lol :P
ME: Last thing. I'm talking to myself. Could mean something. But think about what happened with Crack Cocaine. THAT level of control became out of control. I think that's what's happening with people and their objectives these days (and motivations); they really don't have a reason or cause - they just move forward at speeds that are insane with no goal. Goals become routines - generational imperatives. Even aspirations become dictated by value systems like money or providence. Genetics has something to do with desire and energy and shouldn't fit you in somewhere. It seems nihilistic of me to say, but I think the processes people attach themselves to are far more nihilistic then not pretending it's all for nothing.
OTHER: I think I had about 12 cups of coffee today, and I wonder why my left eye keeps twitching uncontrollably throughout the entire course of the day. Yowzas.
ME: Just heard in a song, "hate is legislated, taken like vitamins."
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