I know too much. Seriously sometimes the knowledge of things that are cool and wonderous in the world living in a place where progress is spelt progressssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss............ is, quiet simply depressing.
Recent setbacks in my creative feild has led me more and more into the belief that maybe advertising is not the right line of work and rice farming is.
Let's break it down.
Advertising pays well, not Richard Branson well, but a decent job with a decent wage. You work long hours sometimes forgetting the difference between night and day, eat badly, sleep badly and spend more time of your life at work in an airconditioned, selaed room. You deal with alot of bull shit that drives you mad, stubborness at the workplace from a hundred people, good work gets pissed on and trumped by horrible below the belt creatives that are'nt worth putting a name too, your clients have no respect for you, especially if your creative, in fact though your paid to be a creative person you will never be more creative than the client, alot of the time client servicing can't understnd why you can't understand them when the reality is, no rational person with a thinking brain can understand them.
Advertising is not looking good.
Rice Farming doesn't pay that well and sometimes you have good harvest and bad harvests, more manual labour but work ends at 4.30pm except on harvest day, plenty of excercise and workout during the day outdoors means a healthy nights sleep, You deal with alot of bullshit but it's highly benificial to your crop, stubborness is dealt with beatings, good harvest means you've done well a bad harvest means blame the Gods your clients love you especially now with rice in short supply, your rice will be welcomed and will save Sri Lanka from famine and client servicing eats your rice so no one would ever say anything against you for fear of an overfertilized batch of rice.
Rice Farming looking promising.
*sigh* slaves to money we have become.
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Just found your blog linking from another. Your comments on the GLF were very good.
I didn't really understand your comment about preventing sales of cigarettes to people under 18, but perhaps that was meant to be ironic. Also, I see absolutely no reason for a content warning on your blog. If you think the youth have to be protected from what you have written, you don't know many young people under the age of 18 today in Colombo. Or even outstation for that matter.
What you have to say is very tame by any historical measure. Rimbaud as a 13 year old makes you look like a pussycat and he succeeded in turning the literary world on its ear. I guess in the almost 150 years since he lived, we've really become very tame, or at least didn't learn much from him. At least those at the GLF didn't, maybe Gore Vidal alone excepted.
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