>> Favorite things = self damaging, well yes because it is damaging altogother. When you say this is my favorite you exclude all others, meaning you put others down for a so called favorite which is often dictated by fashion or "the culture of the moment in your own society or environment". <<
I do not agree at all. You call when I surround myself with my own favorite things self damaging and excluding others. Not at all. Sztuka Fabryka wears his "All Stars" with proud, is dressed sometimes in fashionable street wear. Loves to read fashion magazines and watch what is going on in Milaan and on other cat walks. By the way next year he is going to study fashion at local Academy. Sztuka Fabryka loves to listen to punk, but also some hits of Britney Spears makes shaking his ass as you see on MTV. You know Guido that we discussed music, you ended following it when the eighties where there. While for me its starts with Duran Duran, Franki Goes to Hollywood, Blondie, the Sex Pistols, ... Sometimes he likes reality TV and gets crazy when "Lost" is on TV. Maybe some things are dictated by the culture of the moment in the society or by my environment. So what, can you blame the medievals that they wore medieval clothes and not a punk costume. Do I damage myself by excluding other things I do not like, not at all. On the contrary. I surround myself with the things I like, just to make me feel good. I build up my own life, my own identity, with the clothes I like, the interior I like, the food I like, the music I like, ... And do not give a fuck what others think about it. If I would give a fuck and care what others thinks about it, then I for sure would damage myself. But do I exclude, no I do not. If there is a hippie sitting next to me then I will not exclude this person. I would not think "hey he do not dress as I do, I will exclude him". No, I will not do that. And hope he does not do the same with me. Infact I see a kind of generation difference in this writing. Maybe you all were growing up in the revolutionary sixties where there was this general idea of "all united in one community". While I grow up in the eighties where only the individual was important. And still this is what goes around in my brain. Not one community is my ideal (MAO where are you) but lots of different individuals, with each their own different style and favorite things build up a community. And infact I prefer the last one, it is more interesting. Also in Mail-Art I prefer my own favorite things, and surround me with what I like, so that I feel myself good and comfortable in my own world, far away from the sometimes bad world. But do not mind that others surprise me with their own world. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
