Essay: Choice As Artifact

You believe it is immoral to express Boredom. • Just as in the environment, time can be polluted, too. • The Controlled Moment is denuded landscape. • It is the tree fallen across the trail that makes wilderness experience so exuberant; there will never be a fallen tree in Disneyland. • The world operates in fractals: We repeat our sexuality over and over, in all manner of activity and relationships, until we have something larger—culture—that is essentially the same thing. • Today, there are 'courtship rituals,' with artists seducing and audiences receiving, but there is rarely consumation. • The poetic moment is modeled on orgasm. • In a Shaman Culture, knowledge is orgasmic and not available merely by acts of purchasing, such as tuition or seminar fees. • In a Merchant Culture, you will always align yourself with accumulations of wealth. • Counterculture is co-opted immediately as marketing tool. • Mass media buys only enough creativity to prevent the Bored from rising up and seizing methods of cultural production. • We are hardwired for poetry, just as we are for laughter and music. • Boredom is toxic. • You are most comfortable being presented with a choice between two displays of accumulated wealth. • With advantages in scales of volume, corporations only use the most expensive technology for products of human expression as an empty but powerful way to sell tickets, but it will be calculated, bankrupt of profound ideas and devoid of surprise. • Expensive technology in human expression is the same experience as constructing an office building--paradigm of marketing and finance. • Mass media must present a sense of order, even when none exists. • In addition to ill health, Boredom is ‘horny’—a blessed and natural jones that won't just go away. • Your favorite movie star is an office building lobby, and the summer blockbuster is a chemical dump of Controlled Moments. • What we want from art is the tiger back in the brush.