and i thought BS was bullshit

one last thing. as i was brushing my teeth i was thinking more about fake people (i party a lot, so believe me, i know a lot of fake people and i think about them often) and then suddenly, into my head popped this flyer that my old roommate made for a new year's party we once threw. she called the party "A Century of Fakers" which i knew she ripped off from somewhere, but didn't know where. i figured it was some punk thing, but i just googled it turns out that it's a god damn belle and sebastian song*. anyway, back when i was brushing my teeth, before i knew it was belle and sebastian, i was wondering about fakers, then centuries, then ages. i was thinking about how everyday life seems to be changing so quickly. like next year the way people dress will be totally different. it's like "psh that color jeans is so 2 weeks ago" and i'm using very little hyperbole here... TWO WEEKS AGO! then i was wondering what could have changed? ages have always lasted ages. why would they suddenly stop doing that? (well, globalization, but ignore that and think about my rant.) i don't think they would. it's not natural. so, after giving it very little more thought, i came up with this: i imagine that, for example, during the 'age of enlightenment' the people living then didn't realize that of all the things they were doing with themselves it was going to be the general societal push towards enlightenment, be it because of universal consciousness or a happenstance which created the perfect environment to cultivate such norms, that was going be their mark in history. they probably didn't know what the fuck was going on, or what their society was about. you know the thing about not being able to read something that's written on your palm when your hand is pressed up against your nose? they were living that, everyone lives that. so a much larger than average populus of people now strive for the most current style and to be edgy and to out do everything everyone else is working on because that's how we do now, right? and that's what's making things change so quickly, right? but what if things only seem to change to us because we're in the trenches. what if mother fucking belle and sebastian are right and the one salient, unwavering quality of the times we are now living in is not the progress that everyone is trying to show off, but fakeness that is driving them to feel the need to show off at all?

i should have gone to bed.



*they annoy me severely.