May 28, 2004

Trivial Pursuits

The scariest thing that happens to me during a typical day is that half second where the Ruffles bag teeters on the edge and looks like it might get caught by the metal and not fall into the bin. Then it does fall, and my world comes together. Its kind of emasculating though, like they talk about in Fight Club, how modern technology and mass production and white-collar jobs have de-mannized us. We don't have to hunt or fight for anything anymore. But, I suppose its better than dying at age 25 at the hands (paws?) of a hyena. Plus, they didn't even have fireplaces back then. They actually had to watch their fire the whole time! What a waste of time. How could you get your Simpson's fix if you're constantly worrying about keeping the fire going and protecting your berries from bears and keeping your loincloth free of biting insects? Now that I think about it, being a caveman pretty much sucked, and modern technology kicks ass. If the worst part is that my male aggression needs to be bottled up a little bit, then I can take that. I'll just let it out next time I go bowling and it becomes competitive. Isn't that why sports were invented? I'm going to let my nails grow about an inch and sharpen them, and when an opponent gets a strike I'll run up to him and give him a good slash across the face like Wolverine from the X-men, letting out a scream like its a Klingon death ceremony. Wow, an X-men reference and Star Trek reference in the same sentence. I have reached new heights of nerdliness. Posted by mill1991 at May 28, 2004 06:30 AM
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I think Fight Club's answer is that animalistic worrying about your survival would relieve you of caring about your Simpsons fix. But what fun is that? I'll take modern tech too.
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Posted by: qwerty at June 4, 2004 01:47 AM
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