We Live In A Patriarchal Culture. It's Okay For Women To Be Objectified But Not For Men.
There Is A Fetishization Of Victimization In Our Culture. And I Just Am Not Interested In Victimhood.
Beauty Is In The Strangest Places. A Piece Of Garbage Floating In The Wind. And That Beauty Exists In America. It Exists Everywhere. You Have To Develop An Eye For It And Be Able To See It.
It's Easy To Look At The Vampires As A Metaphor For Any Feared Or Misunderstood Group. It's Also Easy To Look At Them As A Metaphor For A Shadow Organization That Says One Thing And Has A Completely Different Agenda On Their Mind, And Anybody Who Gets In Their Way, They Just Get Rid Of Them. Does That Sound Familiar?
My Own Belief Is That People Can Come Back From Anything. It Doesn't Mean That It Won't Come At A Huge Cost.
I'm 53. I Don't Care About High School Students. I Find Them Irritating And Uninformed.
The Fact That We Die, That Makes Life Important. It's Hard To Take, But It's The Truth.
As A Culture, We Are Not Comfortable With Mortality. We Do Not Accept It The Way Other Cultures Do. We Cling To Youth, And We Don't Want To Die. It's Like, 'well, Too Bad, We Do.'
It's A Lot Harder To Find Fault With The Mundane Details Of Daily Existence When You Really, Really Know On A Cellular Level That You're Going To Go, And That This Moment, Right Now, Is Life. Life Isn't What Happens To You In 20 Years. This Moment, Right Now, Is Your Life.
I Think Vampires Are A Timeless Powerful Archetype That Can Tap Into People's Psyches.
And As I Stumbled Onto Eastern Philosophy And Buddhism, It Was The First Time I Had Ever Read Any Sort Of Philosophy That Really Made A Tremendous Amount Of Sense. What I Liked That Was Missing From My Experience Of Christianity Growing Up Was A Sort Of Acceptance, A Sort Of Being Ok With Being Imperfect And Not Focusing On The Sin.
