BLOOD FOR CREAM

Clothing is a material product, while fashion is a symbolic product. Clothing is tangible, while fashion is intangible. Clothing is a necessity, while fashion is in excess. Clothing has got a utility function, while fashion has got a status function. Clothing is found in all communities, while fashion must be structured institutionally and spread with regard to a culture. A fashion system operates to convert clothes to fashion, which has got a symbolic value and are manifested in clothes.

People don’t talk to each other about real things because they’re afraid of how they’ll be judged. Or they think other people don’t have the capacity to carry the burden of what they have to say. They see the compulsion to put that burden out in the world as a show of weakness. But all that stuff is what makes up human; more than that, it’s what makes being human interesting and funny.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand under the weight.

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.