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pidunk 04:06 am UTC 05/26/07 |
| In reply to: | Crazy People - GTKarber 01:59 am UTC 05/26/07 |
> Does anyone believe that Jim's work has a greater > potential to attract lunatics than other work? The proliferation of media has brought together wide segments of the population that would not ordinarily be in contact with one another, and so, where there are weak minds and anti-social tendencies that used to go unnoticed, they are made noticeable because these people have, oddly enough, larger needs to connect with likes of their kind than normal people do. Hence, many crazy people, are calling sane people, crazy. We have in the twentieth century, a social paradox that carries now into the early twentieth century. > > First, an aside. I am reading I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: > The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Why are you reading about Warren Zevon? Many people I've read accounts of consider him crazy. >and in it, they > mention a few of his crazy fans, I hardly think he would attract sane fans. > including a woman who > required her husband to wear a makeshift Warren mask so > that she could get off while they had sex. Another had a > tattoo of his face on her breast. The fact that they got so much attention shows that other crazy people thought to give them a spotlight. > > They conclude that Warren sure did have some crazy fans. Every artist has crazy fans, because fans, are fanatical. In order to be upfront on the fan roster, one must be a fanatic. Show me a sane fanatic, and I'll show you an overachiever. > > But that's not really crazy. Sexually perverse, yes, but > not crazy. Certainly not compared to the kinds of people > we run into on this message board Yes, I would say that some people on the board make it very hard for others to see what serious people are trying to say. Many people have been driven off of the board by these same crazy people. It is a problem, which has been discussed here from time to time and predates any of the involvement that I have ever had here. : people who believe in > conspiracy theories, cover-ups, cases of mistaken identity > and identity theft, I'm sure everyone knows who I am > talking about. Take Jackanapes for example, don't be so coy GT, we know that he is infamous for that. His numerous and plenty tales that he weaves and the names he goes by is enough to make a person mad that he actually does continue as if he is not transparent. He made incredible stories about goons chasing him along streets, or picking him up bodily, threatening him, or that he is his own press agent with another name. The internet permits someone like that to thrive here, and he is allowed on the board, which I am not entirely certain is a positive thing, but I think it is better he have an outlet than be all closed and suppressed up. That way, he does not fall to over-wrought feelings of frustration. I don't understand someone like Jackanapes/The Jackster, but I sure do wish he could find peace in himself so he could be more productive in socially acceptable and consistent ways. He goes to conspiracy sites everywhere and lives on the stuff. It is really strange. But, there are laws on every states' books against conspiracy, so the existence of conspiracy is a known phenomenon. There are conspiracies, and then there are the conspirators, who goph at the ones who want to mete them out. It is a paradox, again. > > Do you think there is something in Jim's grandiose music, > something that attracts those people? I think that music as it exists in society today, attracts those people, and I think that Jim's music is just one in the plentiful basket of wonderful arts that get attached to by these searching, wandering, lost souls. Sometimes, someone picks an artist to worship because the symbolism connected with the artist fits a fantasy of theirs, rather than by the music itself. Then, what to do, but listen to the music and make it fit the fantasy mold to the symbolism. The skulls have a lot to do with attracting people with extremist attitudes, and also motorcycles. Meatloaf draws them in, Rocky Horror draws to Meatloaf, in many instances, and nobody has a crazier more paradoxical bunch than Rocky Horror fanatics. >Or do you think it > is simply coincidence. I am interested in hearing what > people have to say. Any time one puts their own life under a microscope, the skin cells look bigger. So it is that we are in a place where there is a mixture of various levels of fanatics. Why are you here? | |
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