Ian WhiteGood Hair and Blissful Ignorance
November 24th 2010 05:20
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Chris Rock awhile back did a fantastic documentary on black hair and this same such topic caused a heated debate on my facebook status where the B word was flung like feces at a Monkey habitat. What could cause such vitriol? The notion that these women are brainwashed into spending obscene money to conform to biased standards of beauty. I suggested that they should worry less about their hairstyle since men don't actually care, and worry about building their minds.
Well one girl vehemently denied that she was brainwashed, to which I say, well if you were brainwashed you wouldn't know it now would you? Seriously though, if you think spending 400 dollars on Indian hair, at an Asian store, to look European is perfectly rational, then I'm a needy Nigerian prince that can make you rich. She didn't even seem to be aware of any of the above points or the fact that the notion of "good hair" came from the seething racism during the 1900's. All this defiance but it protects her pride rather than facts. Its all a product of our culture though. American culture, where people kneel at the altar of Hedonism and pray to the God's of name brand. People like the young lady in my example are fiercely defensive at the notion that they aren't in control, when in fact they aren't. There are hardly, if any original ideas in this world. Everything new is inspired or stolen from something that came before it. Most peoples philosophies, ideas, taste, came at some point from a billion dollar marketing campaign or a dusty text then related via word of mouth since people don't read anymore.
I look around a city where the women wear the same clothes bought from the same stores. We live in a country where intellectual is seen as elitist and ignorance is cool. In politics it is the loudest mouth or the biggest panderer that gains support. I bet what George Orwell didn't count on was that there would be no need to drug or terrorize people into an idiotic stupor-they'll do it themselves. What do you expect when a list of the most important people includes a self-aggrandizing athlete and a talentless socialite who got famous from a homemade porno with a C list celebrity? Thats why people think Columbus discovered america, that Edison invented the light bulb, that politicians are our friends. People are afraid to ask questions, afraid to think for themselves, and its alarming that we're seeing this in the youth, the "future" as they are often called. Well if thats what we have to look forward to, I'm rooting for a Mayan Apocalypse.
Well one girl vehemently denied that she was brainwashed, to which I say, well if you were brainwashed you wouldn't know it now would you? Seriously though, if you think spending 400 dollars on Indian hair, at an Asian store, to look European is perfectly rational, then I'm a needy Nigerian prince that can make you rich. She didn't even seem to be aware of any of the above points or the fact that the notion of "good hair" came from the seething racism during the 1900's. All this defiance but it protects her pride rather than facts. Its all a product of our culture though. American culture, where people kneel at the altar of Hedonism and pray to the God's of name brand. People like the young lady in my example are fiercely defensive at the notion that they aren't in control, when in fact they aren't. There are hardly, if any original ideas in this world. Everything new is inspired or stolen from something that came before it. Most peoples philosophies, ideas, taste, came at some point from a billion dollar marketing campaign or a dusty text then related via word of mouth since people don't read anymore.
I look around a city where the women wear the same clothes bought from the same stores. We live in a country where intellectual is seen as elitist and ignorance is cool. In politics it is the loudest mouth or the biggest panderer that gains support. I bet what George Orwell didn't count on was that there would be no need to drug or terrorize people into an idiotic stupor-they'll do it themselves. What do you expect when a list of the most important people includes a self-aggrandizing athlete and a talentless socialite who got famous from a homemade porno with a C list celebrity? Thats why people think Columbus discovered america, that Edison invented the light bulb, that politicians are our friends. People are afraid to ask questions, afraid to think for themselves, and its alarming that we're seeing this in the youth, the "future" as they are often called. Well if thats what we have to look forward to, I'm rooting for a Mayan Apocalypse.
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