At 8:00 PM,
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Star Drifter posted the following:
Cobain is dead, people
I can't believe how easily herded the
deep thinkers of today are. Kurt was sad because he suffered from depression, stomach aches, and heroin addiction. The three are physical, medical conditions. He wasn't sad because he lacked the spine to talk to that girl in the next row, and he sure as hell wasn't making some fashion statement.
What have we learned? Misery sells. Actually, it's a great plan. Makes these poor dumb kids
pay good money to have some thirty year old with a nose ring tell them that sadness is good. Be sad, they're telling us. There's no need to be happy. Being a little satisfied with yourself might mean you won't need men with nose rings to tell you how to feel. And hey, if they tell you to gain a drug addiction of your own, that's just a bonus. If you're perpetually dissastisfied
and easier to manipulate (MK Ultra, anyone?) then you're the perfect consumer.
I hate crackpot theories like the above, and I'm a little ashamed to even have this one. But it's true. Depression rates are going up, there's always some drug being revived and abused in record numbers. Any kid whose parents can't or won't reach them gets a role model with blue dreadlocks and a self esteem condition to raise him. Niiice.
Cobain is dead, and so is all of the honesty in the sadness he spoke of. It's a fashion statement, no different from a pair of shoes.
