Generally speaking, rims (for your car) cost about as much as most original artwork does. Here's a little list to sway you the next time you're trying to decide which one to go with...
Why paintings are better than rims:
- Paintings are a longer established status symbol, since it looks like you're into status symbols.
- You don't have to take your paintings to the car wash once a month and spray them with a de-greasing cleanser.
- Paintings get more interesting the longer you look at them. Rims are just shiny.
- An artist can live for about a year on what you paid for your rims... so you got rims, and an artist died.
- You sound more intelligent when talking about your art collection than you do when talking about your rims collection.
- Rims use gas, a non-renewable resource. Paintings use your mind.
:)
I've
recently and slowly begun digesting "The Portable Jung" edited by
Joseph Campbell. (Campbell is must-read for you young and budding
western philosophers, by the way, if you're unfamiliar with his work.
"Sukhavati" is well worth a watch if reading doesn't fit into our
technology-saturated day.)
There's a passage in the foreword
where Campbell points out that "nature cares nothing whatsoever about a
higher level of consciousness" and that society "does not value these
feats of the psyche very highly; its prizes are always given for
achievement and not for personality, the latter being rewarded for the
most part posthumously."
...which is poses the question: why
would you work on yourself? I can't think of a single worthwhile
instance of societal or monetary reward for the practice of being nice
..maybe the Nobel peace prize... but come on. Selfishness, greed,
ignorance, and intolerance are still so laughably front and center in
the business and political world and so
clearly holding us back as a global community. The little guys, however
well-meaning, must commit daily environmental horrors to barely keep up
(think of how many plastic packages you opened today, in order to simply
eat). Exceptional kindness, open-mindedness, and compassion should be
an absolute requirement for leadership, wealth, and power, and those
things aren't even suggested. The individual has seemingly no reason for
pursuing any internal accomplishments, and the whole world is (still)
burning because of it. That I'm perhaps one of the nicest and most
intelligent people you know is completely terrifying, isn't it? :P
Well, fuck that. Let's change it then. It is over due. Change it from
within. You'll have to be the beacon, but all you have to do (really) is
take deep breaths and have an open mind. It's a practice, just do your
best every day. You have my humble blessing, in any case, dear
Lightweaver. I can't pay you jack shit, but you have my blessing. ♥
