Guest guest Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE FEELING SOMETHING? Are we supposed to be feeling happy? Outraged? Ashamed? Stupid? Smart? Superior? Inferior? What if most feelings just have no name? What if most feelings are not even, primally, experienced as either " good " or " bad, " negative or positive? What if we've been " brain washed " into giving them one or another social, cultural, artistic or, even, asocial meaning or significance? What if feelings are infinite and beyond articulation, hence, beyond commodification? What if attaching significance to feelings is just a capitalist effort at objectifying the self in order to either sell it, condemn it, or exploit it in some way? What if even poetry and art, literature and philosophy, even this here, are forms of soul prostitution? And what if even the words, " soul prostitution, " are equally forms of said commodification, exploitation. What if language is a whore? What if the very act of naming is a form of manipulation and enslavement? What if we're all in the business of selling our feelings, and are thus, whores of shared emotion? What if it would be best just to leave feelings alone? To just feel them and leave them at that? And what if even this suggestion fails itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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