Meditations & Observations on: Bukowski “Friendly advice to a lot of young men”- An examination.
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- Nov 10, 2017
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Meditations & Observations on: Bukowski “Friendly advice to a lot of young men”- An examination.
📷GRITCULT.Oct 11, 2017
Poetry is like truth and everyone hates the truth.
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a beard. Circle the world in a paper canoe. Subscribe to The Saturday Evening Post. Chew on the left side of your mouth only. Marry a woman with one leg and shave with a straight razor. And carve your name in her arm. Brush your teeth with gasoline. Sleep all day and climb trees at night. Be a monk and drink buckshot and beer. Hold your head under water and play the violin. Do a belly dance before pink candles. Kill your dog. Run for mayor. Live in a barrel. Break your head with a hatchet. Plant tulips in the rain. But don’t write poetry.
Bukowski is held as a model, by some, on how to live life. Adherence to his way of life would end up how his life ended up. Not so great nor practical in any sense, there is a lot of romanticism within bukowski and his “lifestyle” if one wanted to live like that.
there also is a romanticism in order to create interesting-ness and that interesting-ness is usually correlated with drug consumption and a hedonic based value system, where one values pleasure and satisfaction of flesh above all.
bukowski is a form of masculinity, this can be seen in his adherent fans, who copy and paste his quotes on their social media profiles to indicate a type of signalling they would like to emit
like most pseudo religious spirituality that is prevalent in the west, bukowski-ism is not nearly truly examined, just merely thought of as “yeah he was pretty cool”, simply put its not socially scalable. more a commodity of a type of identity.
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