I just wanted to expound in this a little further because I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.

I don’t understand why everyone thinks that the modernistic art of today is so dumb. Sure, it’s easy to physically create, but the thought behind it it takes a great mind, and that doesn’t just happen overnight. Maybe you don’t understand the symbolism of a giant red canvas, but I bet you couldn’t even begin to imagine what kid of thought went into that. The color, shape, size, and meaning. The art of today is about thought, and the provoking of it. We don’t just paint religious scenes and kings, like in the past, because those aren’t the center of our life now. We don’t have a consensus of values here anymore. This life is constantly changing, and most of us don’t know what to think. This simplistic art reflects that. Life in the past had a religion or widespread belief that was accepted by all. They did not have to experiment and ask open-ended questions. The paintings they made were the answers, the questions had already been asked and answered by the artist. Today, the art is the question, the answer is left to you to come up with.

But today’s life is not by any means devoid of values. We may not centralize our lives around religion, but that does not take away our longing to have something to believe in and be a part of. We need to be shaped. We need to be told how to live our lives, and this is not changing anytime soon. We are more aware of our feelings now than we have ever been before, and that is what created this fading away of organized religion. We don’t think less than we did before, we just think differently. Life today isn’t bad and devoid of values, it is simply different than life has been in past times, and there is nothing bad about that, it just depends on what you do with it.

I think I decided that I don’t like telling people anything about myself because once I say something, it’s final. Once a feeling or thought is put into words and heard by someone else, it cannot be taken back, it cannot be changed. Once whoever I have opened up to has created this opinion of me, that cannot be erased. The one simple way of even coming close to undoing it, would be to open up to that same person a second time, and admit that I’m wrong. This frightens me. And that, that is where my biggest issue lies. I think I keep to myself because I am so stubborn, and I am so stubborn because I keep to myself.

I also think that I think too much.

To me there is nothing more ridiculous than people saying that people are different now than they used to be. Sure, we have a lot more technology now than we used to, but we’re still people! People in the present time always think something was better about the past, but I don’t think that could be farther from the truth. Do you think adults in the 60s thought The Beatles were going to be legends? Hell no.  I’m not saying that I love today’s music, but it’s just a matter of taste. Most adults thought The Beatles were crap, just like how most adults hate today’s music.

There’s always been politicians, crime, and people with no morals. There’s always been prostitution, drug deals, and smuggling. And I guess there’s always been naive people who think this is specific to their generation. There’s nothing wrong with today’s society. The human species is still evolving, just like it always has.

With all this being said, I hate society. But I know that if I lived in any other century, i would hate it just as much. So there.

I feel like people don’t quite understand the extent to which I hate everyone that I go to school with. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a lack of friends, I just don’t really like most of my friends either. As for the rest of them, I think the best part about knowing these people and seeing them at a 10 year class reunion will be to see what kind of poop their lives have turned into.

There are about 3 exceptions to this, however. 3 people in my school who are bearable and who’s friendship I actually, truly value even if they aren’t the best people in the world. But out of those 3 people, I can only see myself seriously talking to 1 of them after high school. 1. 1 person of 1600 in my school, 400 in my class. And I’m still a junior.

TODAY I GOT A NIKON D3100. FUCK YEAH! BYE NOW.

A few months ago, I created a new twitter. I already have a twitter, @jessicarisdon, in which I have a whopping 41 followers. But despite this, I concluded after many minutes of thinking that I didn’t like it. The followers of my first twitter were slowly becoming overridden with people from my school and other people that I have some connection to, as twitter is becoming more and more popular with people who really have no reason to have a twitter besides having a second Facebook. Basically the content of most of my tweets is how much I hate that people that I know, so I did not feel comfortable with people that I know following me. It did not allow me to “tweet freely,” per say. I was also getting many dumb @ replies from people that I know, which showed me that people were actually reading my tweets, which I would like if I didn’t actually know them.
So, if I do not know you, or you really do like my tweets, then feel free to follow me on my new twitter, @poopypartyer! It’s quite lonely at the moment, having only 2 followers who don’t like to star my tweets :’(