psst...the cops.

this was a 'draft' from march 29. hmmm...

appropos of nothing, i was just sitting outside on my steps enjoying my evening to myself, smoking a joint and watching the stars pass me by. two seconds, not a word of a lie after i go back inside two police officers come strolling down the street. ha! what would have happened if i'd have still be there? curious? a ticket? nothing? what?! now i'm curious.

what i really wanted to blog about: (before my little almost-run-in with the polizei) i was driving home from a movie when i noticed a sign it said:

SPACE AGE
NUCLEAR AGE
RETRO

and it got me thinking about my comp lit class today and our 'age'...we're living in the what, post-modern? post-post-modern. let's call it the post-post modern for arguments sake since i think the post-modern age ended in the 80s. either way, for a large chunk of time post-modernism was the 'it' theory. what's new and hot in critical discourse? POST-MODERNISM, baby...absolute relativism* all the way! now, i know that not ALL post-modernists subscribe to the notion that every single thing, including the computer screen in front of you, is relative. it's all social construction; but some did and if these some were onto something and absolute relativism is the truth then does morality go out the window? in a world where everything around us is a social construction, even our personal relationships, are we ultimately morally bankrupt. theoretically we can do anything or be whomever we choose...what's the control? and i don't mean moral in the religious sense, i just mean moral in the way that we are generally striving to be nice to our fellow human. are we? bankrupt?

and second, in this age where our sort of collective existential crisis has made us all utterly narcissitic, where has the ability to make fun of ourselves gone? i recently read 'the sokol hoax' and the responses to it. essentially, those who were the victims of the hoax makes claims and excuses to essentially deny the personal hurt they felt when there precious intellectually elistist exclusionary methods were satirized. ACK! who else, if not intellectuals based in cultural studies, are hilarious?! people are hilarious...and this is where i lose it...save draft. edit later.

huh...i wonder why i never edited later? i did however figure out why intellectual discourse is a a bad idea when you're stoned. check out the how spectacularly my ability to fuction completely disintegrates...