japagow1
1st August 2010, 20:33
Well at last I managed to 'activate' myself and I'm in and what a pleasure it is to be here.
From the title of this thread you can see I'm keen on the situationist philosophy, though I didn't know what it was until I leafed through a book on the History of the Angry Brigade and learned that the student riots in 1968 were....am I boring you?..motivated by the Society of the Spectacle and The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Originally it started years ago when in my lunch break I picked up a book from the library called How to be Free. (see The Idler on the net, it's the same bloke I've forgotten his name) and the seeds of a kind of anti capitalism were sown.
From there I digested ' Everyday Life' and started to look around at what my everyday life was really like.
Here comes a long quote that sums it up:
'In terms of appearance man has struggled for eternal life but in terms of real life he is still at the level of animal adaption- spontaneous reactions in childhood, consolidation in maturity, exhaustion in old age- and today the harder people try to find salvation in appearance the more vigorously it is borne upon them by the ephemeral and inconsitent nature of the spectacle that they live like dogs and die like bales of hay'
From there I gave up full time work, went part time, spent less money, saved more, grew my own veg, became creative with my spare time and slowed down.
So that's me.
Pleased to be here, pleased to learn more and generally alot happier now I'm not going to die like a bale of hay.
From the title of this thread you can see I'm keen on the situationist philosophy, though I didn't know what it was until I leafed through a book on the History of the Angry Brigade and learned that the student riots in 1968 were....am I boring you?..motivated by the Society of the Spectacle and The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Originally it started years ago when in my lunch break I picked up a book from the library called How to be Free. (see The Idler on the net, it's the same bloke I've forgotten his name) and the seeds of a kind of anti capitalism were sown.
From there I digested ' Everyday Life' and started to look around at what my everyday life was really like.
Here comes a long quote that sums it up:
'In terms of appearance man has struggled for eternal life but in terms of real life he is still at the level of animal adaption- spontaneous reactions in childhood, consolidation in maturity, exhaustion in old age- and today the harder people try to find salvation in appearance the more vigorously it is borne upon them by the ephemeral and inconsitent nature of the spectacle that they live like dogs and die like bales of hay'
From there I gave up full time work, went part time, spent less money, saved more, grew my own veg, became creative with my spare time and slowed down.
So that's me.
Pleased to be here, pleased to learn more and generally alot happier now I'm not going to die like a bale of hay.