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On the edge
Oct. 14th, 2008 06:24 pm
I think what started last week with the crappy day has been going downhill since then, not least because of the sheer amount of material I need to learn for my exams on Thursday and Friday.
Add that to people's superficiality and misunderstanding of my preferences regarding things that are the most near and dear to me (Finland, music, art) and you've pretty much got a bomb with a hair trigger.
I'm NOT going to be very amused with the jabs against me in my usual Finnish hideout1;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gemigemi knows from me that they should be glad I'm NOT living in Finland right now because at this point in time I'm VERY ready to get a little stabby.
And in trying to figure out why people don't seem to understand my motivation for liking particular kinds of music (i.e. the feelings that it generates in me), the discussion of the sublime in my sociology of art class and one student's argument that the sublime doesn't exist anymore in a culture of images seems important:
I don't suffer from a lack of the sublime experience; I suffer from too much of it.
1Edit: One of them idiots tried to even justify said bullying as "entertaining for others and educational for the one picked on". No. Just... no. I'm sorry, but no. This isn't even about idealism. Maybe educating in that I learn that you are a jerk, but that's about it.
Add that to people's superficiality and misunderstanding of my preferences regarding things that are the most near and dear to me (Finland, music, art) and you've pretty much got a bomb with a hair trigger.
I'm NOT going to be very amused with the jabs against me in my usual Finnish hideout1;
gemigemi knows from me that they should be glad I'm NOT living in Finland right now because at this point in time I'm VERY ready to get a little stabby.And in trying to figure out why people don't seem to understand my motivation for liking particular kinds of music (i.e. the feelings that it generates in me), the discussion of the sublime in my sociology of art class and one student's argument that the sublime doesn't exist anymore in a culture of images seems important:
I don't suffer from a lack of the sublime experience; I suffer from too much of it.
1Edit: One of them idiots tried to even justify said bullying as "entertaining for others and educational for the one picked on". No. Just... no. I'm sorry, but no. This isn't even about idealism. Maybe educating in that I learn that you are a jerk, but that's about it.
