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27 March 2007

Mainstream and a scare


I love mainstream. It goes for music, literature, culture, politics.
I listen to mainstream radio (same tunes again and again and again till they make a hole in my head) , succumb to mainstream practices (let's change the normal light bulbs for low energy ones; let's separate newspapers that will be recycled from envelopes that will also be recycled), admire mainstream fashion choice (large patterns of black and white are the thing), despise the US (their government choices not the people), adore Australia (they gave a queen to be to the Danes so they must be worthy), follow mainstream TV-shows (yeah Grey's anatomy and Shark ARE interesting). So, I am not particularly selective.

If it's good enough for most people it's good enough for me. (That includes the latest gossip on Britney's state of the HAIR).

But...(of course there is a but. You know you wanted a BUT somewhere).
But...I hate the fact that mainstream is so consuming. Mainstream scares me. It eats me up. The fact that, had I been German in the late 1930ies I would most certainly have been a Nazi. Had I been Russian at the same time I maybe would have been a recovering bolshevik. Had I been old enough (meaning not only born but adult as well) in Albania in the 70-ties, I would have been planting olive trees or laying down railroads together with the voluntary- aides from Sweden or elsewhere. Were I a relative of the current US commander in chief I would be for owning Irak's oil reservs no matter the costs. And so on.

I'm scared of the mainstream interest in me. I can't get rid of it. It makes everydaylife less conflictual.
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Permbledhje shqip:
Jam pjese e turmes. Gje qe me tremb (sepse do te me bente naziste po te jetoja ne Gjermani ne fundvitet 30 dhe bolshevike po te jetoja ne Rusi ne te njejten periudhe). Megjithate qenia ne turme eshte e paeleminueshme sepse e ben te perditshmen me me pak konflikte.

8 comments:

  1. i love your train of thought...

    p.s. yeay for Gray's anatomy!!!

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  2. Pse anglisht Elais?
    Ne rreshtat e pare isha pak konfuze per autoresine, but then I got the drift:-)
    Interesante: what is mainstream anyway? What most people find morally right, likeable, attractive, praiseworthy, beneficial, financially viable, this or that or this or that, or whatever? Is mainstream something that more than half of people choose to do, say, wear, read, watch, drink, listen to? It's scary but I like to think of it in terms of probability and statistics. There would and will always be sth that more people prefer relative sth else. So what is peculiar about 'the object' of the mainstream(ing)that most people like? Nothing. It could be this, it could be that. There would always be something so it doesn't exactly matter what it is and how, as long as we all know that is the way it has to be. If you find yourself not particulary interested in the mainstream 'object' then you are most likely shipping for the next most popular or the third best popular or so on. You have to fit into one of the groups and they all add to 1. Probably it's just a matter of time until the second most popular thing, becomes the first. So mainstream is quite tricky to define. Think about fashion for example. What comes around, goes around or sth like that. It should be the same for the rest of issues.
    Anyway, u lodha duke menduar sepse kjo teme me lodh. Keto kohe tentoj te shkoj gjithnje kunder rrymes, aq sa me eshte kthyer ne qellim ne vetvete. Ndonjehere me duhet te heq dore nga dicka qe me pelqen dhe qe happens to be mainstream, vetem sepse me lodh ideja qe do ta shikoj/degjoj/prek edhe ne shume raste te tjera rreth e rrotull meje. I just grow out of liking it somehow. Sic te merzitet nje parfum qe e hedhin te gjithe rreth e rrotull teje dhe qe ti ndodh ta ndjesh ne nje moment kur nuk je mire emocionalisht. Qe te mos e zgjas me shume corapin shqip/anglisht, here's my two pence ne lidhje me shfaqjet. Kohet e fundit i kam hyre koke e kembe MD House (qe ketu eshte nderprere) dhe Bones. Ndonje koment???

    Do flasim me vone.

    PS. Adresen e punes e kam te hapur.

    Kozi

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  3. we all become parts of the mainstream.there's no other choice...

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  4. doli keq :(
    ishin ne forme V-je :)

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  5. edhe pse ndonjehere eshte veshtire qe te ecesh ne kah te kundert me njerzit qe te rrethojne, besoj qe gjithsecili prej nesh ka momente qe e ben sepse pelqen te jete unik, si ne veshje, ne degjim muzike, apo dhe ne perdorim parfumesh.

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  6. @bizele: Me too ;) Besides it's the train god gave me so I can't change it :P

    @kozi: Per mainstream te rekomandoj wikin (se e di qe e ke qejf)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream

    Anglishtja ishte: so I could namedrop and sidetrack as many as possible :D

    Serite: I prefer Bones although House will do. Do see "The closer" if you get a chance.

    @Eni: I agree and that's what I find scary. (I don't get particularly scared otherwise)

    @E.T. Po pata jemi vertete ne njerezit :)
    Me kujtove "Udhetimet e Nils Holgersonit".

    @Belle. E vetmja shprese imja eshte qe te jemi unike "when it matters". Nuk jam e sigurte qe eshte keshtu, megjithate shpresoj.

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  7. Turma(ose masa sipas Marksit), është një mbulesë e domosdoshme, dhe mjaft e volitshme, për njerëzit që nuk duan të nxjerrin, sadopak, kokën mbi të, në kohën që, dallgëzohet ritmikisht hapi i saj.
    Përpiqem shpesh, ti shpëtoj një fenomeni të tillë, por, ashtu sikurse thua, nëse jetonim ose jetojmë në epoka ku turma ka rolin kryesor(gjë që nuk ndodh në demokraci) mund dhe të ishim nazisto-bolshevikë(bashkimi është i imi).
    Shpresoj, të jem shprehur kuptueshëm.

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