And yet – it is a mark of extreme ugliness on Earth to use cristal energy for commercial profit. That would be what we call Jerry Springer, or Dr. Phil, or any other media venue in which people's suffering is paraded in front of millions in order to take advantage of the public's instinct to ogle a train wreck. Pain makes for good entertainment... but hiding and minimizing pain for dignity's sake also leeches the soul out of a story.
Yeah there can be stuff in the middle, too. I mean I don't know a whole lot of musicians who only do happy stuff, there's like some crazy amount of musicians out there who sing about all sorts of angsty shit and nobody thinks that's a bad ugly thing. I mean most of the time, I think. Maybe it's because singing can be kinda therapeutic for the person doing it so it's not just like people going nuts on Jerry Springer with everybody watching them, so unless you wind up like Elliott Smith or something, it can be good for everybody?
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Date: 2010-03-13 09:06 pm (UTC)Yeah there can be stuff in the middle, too. I mean I don't know a whole lot of musicians who only do happy stuff, there's like some crazy amount of musicians out there who sing about all sorts of angsty shit and nobody thinks that's a bad ugly thing. I mean most of the time, I think. Maybe it's because singing can be kinda therapeutic for the person doing it so it's not just like people going nuts on Jerry Springer with everybody watching them, so unless you wind up like Elliott Smith or something, it can be good for everybody?