From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
quoted 6 lines entire reason to smoke is its absolute pointlessness
>>entire reason to smoke is its absolute pointlessness
>>and harmfulness, it's a
>>bit sad. Aesthetics of decay, yo?
>
>That's the kind bullshit that intelligent people
>either outgrow in highschool or skip entirely...
When do you think most of them started smoking, anyway, kid? It's either
high school or college, where it's usually a social act, or possibly in the
army, where it's the only way you're allowed to take a ten-minute break.
Later on it's usually either addiction or sustained identification.
And since when were intelligence and pragmatism co-extensive?
Incidentally, I DON'T smoke, and never have, but I on ther other hand don't
think myself superior for it. It's codes of identity and difference, not
something with a defined function, i.e. the same reason you party late and
wreck your sleep instead of having a nice afternoon or evening soiree-- why?
because it's meaningful that you're out and jubilant when all of middle
America's asleep, and that you may be sacrificing *your* sleep to do so.
Subsuming the symbolic value of acts to their use value is a bit of a
disease.
quoted 2 lines With people like you leading the world's cultures,
>With people like you leading the world's cultures,
>I'm never going to get to go to Mars.
With (would-be) space tourists like you consuming all the resources and
dumping tons of pollutants into the atmosphere with every launch, I'm never
going to get to live here sustainably.
Cheers,
M.
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