Double Post: Movies & Videos Games + Poetry

Movies and video games.  Two of the biggest industries in western culture.  They never seem to falter, never missing a beat.  But why do people continue to come back and buy tickets or games?  Its because they provide a fulfillment of our inner dreams.  I’m never going to play professional football, but I can play madden on my television.  I’m never going to drive a car into a helicopter or sail on the titanic, but I can live my heroic fantasies by watching movies or playing video games.  Who hasn’t dreamt of being a war hero, and saving your country?  You can be that guy in a video game, or you can put yourself in his shoes in a movie.  You can get your fairy tail ending, find your treasure island, win the Stanley cup or die a dramatic death., then hit re-spawn and try again.

I have an entire page filled with haikus.  They got me thinking about poetry.  Poetry is an art form we are slowly losing.  Nobody seems to care enough about modern poets to teach them in school. Or to mention them anywhere in the media or pop culture.  Professions set out to better culture are changing, mostly for the worse.  Art is changing in a way that I cannot comprehend; I have no inclination whether it be good or bad, but its different.  Philosophy is now a stoner’s profession.  Its legitimacy is long gone and any hopes of a big budget sequel are slipping away.  The only jobs taken seriously are purely for money as opposed to bettering a community, or helping yourself.  The world is about making money, and poetry isn’t paying the bills. 


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