We live in the period of absolute perfection. No inappropriate curves, no inappropriate shades, no inappropriate folds. Everything is so simple: being arranged not by the hands of nature, but the ones of “imagists”, by people who are skilled enough to create extraordinary out of ordinary, skilled enough to create a lie, which is so trustworthy that it changes most of people’s heads into balls with no need to doubt; and if it is not trustworthy, we do not protest the lie – we accept it and we allow it to absorb us.To achieve this, everything that could be somehow regarded as not beautiful enough for the majority, has to be eliminated from the sight. All we desire for are just sexy mamas and papas.
24 / 7 Fear
A day of twenty-four hours will never be enough to realize everything we have planned. Of course, this length of days cannot satisfy the needs of people of a certain kind (Will you treat me as prejudiced when I say that I think mainly of women?). This kind of people leaves their dreaming places before the dawn to face the reality of their faces. Morning mirrors force them to put on make-up on all visible parts of their corpuses, to brush their teeth with whitening effect toothpastes, to apply softening creams with vitamins and herbs I don not even know, to create straight hair from curly one and, vice versa, curly hair from straight one... What a ritual! Hours sacrificed to create a lie. In addition, all the cocks are becoming irritated by the fact that they are losing their primacy in waking up.We fear ugliness because we have learnt to fear it. However, there can be another explanation to it; we simply follow the moral “Do not do unto others what you would not have them do to you.“ In other words, we do not spook just because we do not want to be spooked.
A Record for the Next Generation
We all know this: none of the medias will provide you with an ugly looking face and body (I do not count Marilyn Manson and other representatives of the sub-culture). If so, there must have been a mistake and a person responsible will take the consequences.We all know this too: none of your photo albums will provide your friends with an ugly looking face on any page (I do not count the ones from the early childhood and late agedness). We carefully separate the good from the bad. We pay attention to the process of eliminating all evidence of our ugliness. We consciously become “imagists” of ourselves.
Mummies
Not a long time ago, I was in one of those “ultramarkets”. You can find there anything you desire for, but you very often lose a person who belongs to you. That day, I found a cute and yummy angel-like child crying for her mummy. I decided to make an experiment: I took her by the hand and put it to the randomly chosen woman’s hand I had approached to. The girl stopped crying and a smile of relief appeared on that childish face; however, the woman seemed to be somehow confused. The child did not see the difference between that woman and her own mother. I knew we fear the ugliness but only then I realized how much in us we restrain.I bought a 3B KOH-I-NOOR pencil and left the place.
I want you to imagine this: invite Shakira, invite Salma Hayek, and invite Brad Pitt to your place. Feed them with a large portion of spinach. Tell a joke, which would make them laugh. Look at them. Do not close your eyes. Look at them again. How would it be like to find out that the extraordinary has gone?
I know it takes time but, please, try not to be afraid of showing a snot crawling out of your nose.
(Slightly inspired by several photos of Britney Spears I've seen here.)
Tomas Mihalciak
