Monday 23 February 2009
Mondays
Like Sir Bob and more. I have shot the whole day down and those who took part. I have listened to something I wished not and now I am bitterer than one could possibly imagine, a cruel cold woman, a cruel cold woman with a grudge on a Monday - a Monday that has been shot down. Hurry Tuesday for you know not your popularity.
Thoughts: BDSM/Fetishism, Culture, Society &The Indivdual
Someone recently sent me a not very pleasant email calling me dull - they may well be right! I did not respond directly, directing the mail to the junk box; but I suppose I have replied in some ways with this post. Off the cuff and in response to an email from a photographer regarding fetishism, I thought I should give my views on 'alternative' practice, in particular BDSM/Fetishism in cultural, individual and societal contexts, an airing.
'I see it this way - alternative movements/trends and fashions do lend themselves somewhat at some point to the mainstream but this is, I see, the commercialisation of a trend which when it does pass over to the other side, then in doing so becomes not an alternative trend. Clearly this is the product life cycle, applicable to all in the capitalist world, for everything is a commodity and everything has a price. These seeming two dimensional states (alternative and mainstream remaining transient) take on another dimension with regard to fetishisms and BDSM because of the base nature of both of the aforementioned. Fetish has/is currently experiencing a cultural resurgence however it is not totally culturally applicable because on a continuum from total repression to total sexual realisation true fetisism that that should be raw and extreme cannot be anything else lest it cease. BDSM/fetishm, as I see it, is a realisation of the sexual mind - and all this in the face of liberalism - as Muse noted society eats itself; as Paglia wrote sadomasochism post mass liberlism; as Baudrillard also wrote about, in great depth; something to the tune of - for everything is porn in a capitalist world and capitalism is inevitable as long as it goes unrecognised. To those outside of the practice of bdsm who want to gain from it not through it - if you are reaching over into the mainstream using fetishism as a theme then our goals are different for I am not intending to take my practice of BDSM/fetishism to the mainstream and have no desire - I wish to remain as sleazy as possible for me Mistress Sadie is not fun; it is drudge - yet light work, pretence - yet truism in explicit, but beyond explicit, form. That is what I have to make it to make life at least 'liveable'.
Call me a pessimist...but a pessimist can break balls far better than an optimist'
'I see it this way - alternative movements/trends and fashions do lend themselves somewhat at some point to the mainstream but this is, I see, the commercialisation of a trend which when it does pass over to the other side, then in doing so becomes not an alternative trend. Clearly this is the product life cycle, applicable to all in the capitalist world, for everything is a commodity and everything has a price. These seeming two dimensional states (alternative and mainstream remaining transient) take on another dimension with regard to fetishisms and BDSM because of the base nature of both of the aforementioned. Fetish has/is currently experiencing a cultural resurgence however it is not totally culturally applicable because on a continuum from total repression to total sexual realisation true fetisism that that should be raw and extreme cannot be anything else lest it cease. BDSM/fetishm, as I see it, is a realisation of the sexual mind - and all this in the face of liberalism - as Muse noted society eats itself; as Paglia wrote sadomasochism post mass liberlism; as Baudrillard also wrote about, in great depth; something to the tune of - for everything is porn in a capitalist world and capitalism is inevitable as long as it goes unrecognised. To those outside of the practice of bdsm who want to gain from it not through it - if you are reaching over into the mainstream using fetishism as a theme then our goals are different for I am not intending to take my practice of BDSM/fetishism to the mainstream and have no desire - I wish to remain as sleazy as possible for me Mistress Sadie is not fun; it is drudge - yet light work, pretence - yet truism in explicit, but beyond explicit, form. That is what I have to make it to make life at least 'liveable'.
Call me a pessimist...but a pessimist can break balls far better than an optimist'
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