Emo Bloginity

I suppose you could say this is the loss of my bloginity - the first time i have ever used any kind of blogging tool on the internet. I still hate it, i still hate the idea of a "blog" - not only does it sound rediculous but is in most, Emo-style-i-hate-myself-and-the-world-around-me, type blog pages with people who are obviously so bad off that they have the internet, they have the time to sit online day after day editing countless amounts of pages about themselves; Photoshopping pictures into black n white to make themselves feel 'arty' or somehow good at photography. Any pose or pout at dutch-tilt, or close up cleevage shots of apparently 'self-hating', two-tone haired pre-teens with box-rimmed glasses, converse trainers in cartoon, and contricting drainpipe jeans that don't reach their ankles. Bringing together a culmination of the past and the present to make something not as good as either. I have questions to these people: If you hate yourself that much, why spend hours staring at pictures of yourself in adobe photoshop?
If your life is that bad, how about i take you to Afghanistan, or Iraq, strip you of the internet, and half your 'fashonable' clothing and see how you like your life then?

Agreed, the world is a bad place, but is crying about it online to hundreds of people going to help? Is using your computer, that uses electricity going to reduce your carbon footprint? A computer probably made by underpayed Tiwaneese breadwinners, that got paid a millionth of the price you pay for it, to put it together. Are your posts actually really doing anything to save the state of the world? Erm.NOPE.

Now i understand this might be highly hypocritical of me, moaning about a certain segment of peoples within the same bracket, using the same technology as me is just as bad, you might say. However i say these things in the belief of them to be true. Not so that people will think im 'cool'. And thats what annoys me about the 'emo' phenomenal. Making the tribulations, the heartache, the inconsistencies, the troubles of the world into a fashion. And in turn this has ultimately made these things to be revered. To be heartbroken, to be depressed, to be against the world is now a fashion statement, not a general exprience and feeling of the world. I guess to say people with these feelings coming together could be considered Emo. But the real crux of the matter is, we all feel these things at certain times, we are all human - we are all emotive, emotional beings. To make emotions into a fashion item, they become no longer something we posess, but a commodity bought up with the boxrimmed glasses and the drain pipe jeans. And this is what gets me...emo is self-centred - less self-hating it is more about self-love and people who revere their emotions in such a way that is out of reach of that of the rest of human civilisation. To hate the way the world works, the way the 'system' compartmentalises people is one thing. But to buy into a set of commodities created especially to promote these feelings is a hypocracy. To view these feelings through being emo is to compartmentalise yourself into a branding of emotion, of lived experience. Not only that, by saying "im Emo" is to put yourself on a level where you are saying that your lived emotional experience is something that people cannot reach, that people cannot posses. The term Emo places Emotion as a commodity to be bought up and to be adorned on the body or listened to in the bedroom, whereas emotion is something of all of us, it is something we each posess, and something we each have valid right to. In short, the whole EMO trend trivialises our view on emotions and lived experience - and therefore has placed up a barrier to say that those of us who are not 'Emo' don't feel the same about the world. No, we do. We just choose to express it differently. And i feel the whole label "i am emo" trivialises those of us who share or can connect with these feelings, and experiences of the world.

We may not look it, but inside we are really all emo.