Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Bathroom Monologue: "Porn degrades everyone, Mark." -Douglas Coupland, JPod

It degrades the people depicted in it (in my experience, usually female), and it degrades everyone of their sex. It degrades everyone who looks at it (in my experience, usually male - and in my experience, usually me), and everyone of their sex. It therefore degrades the entire human race (except hermaphrodites - or it insults them twice as much, I'm not sure). However, the human race really needs to be knocked down a peg. Most of them either think the whole universe was invented for them, or it's meaningless so it's fine to do whatever they want to it anyway. They've killed off billions of species of life, billions of each other, punched a hole in their ozone layer and actually watch American Idol. They're incredibly full of themselves for people who are so insecure. They deserve some serious degradation. If wanking to a magazine from the top shelf insults them, then it's worth $3.95. It’s exactly the kind of degradation we have coming.

4 comments:

  1. Been meaning to read Coupland. Worth my time?

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  2. I've only read JPod, which I couldn't recommend. He has a pellmell style of both narrative and direction. It's amusing to spend fifty pages of intellectual channel surfing, from presidents to Sailor Moon to C++ to burying drug dealers, but five hundred such pages grate on the psyche.

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  3. He's got a shorter, more conventional novel I was considering the other day. Problem was, the damn thing was in hardback.

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  4. Hard covers can be pricy. All I ask, hard or soft, is buy 'em new - authors don't get a penny of royalties otherwise.

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