Friday, April 11, 2014

If you look at it sideways, it looks like a monitor...

There are
so many social norms that no
body will mess with. Strange people are usually deemed strange based
on w
hether or not they "Look"
normal.
Sometimes it makes me wonder why people bother saying "Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover." It's such a strange saying, because everyone does it without hardly even thinking about it. For instance, if one wanted to portray
a
vision
of
togetherness, or of unity- one with the system, one with the text, one with the
standard of social
acceptability, one would  use evenly spaced, well formed paragraphs and neat, tidy, easy-to-follow sentences.                           Huh.
At any rate, there are no words to express the guttural, rock-dropping
pain in knowing that there
are some images that mean more than the content
of these "Living Books."
I
wish I
understood, and yet here I am
"Calling The Kettle Black,"
because in the process of writing this dis-
jointed text,
I've already judged my own work based on the ideas I am trying to express.
And if
I'm being totally
honest
here
I can't really even like  my own writing, because it doesn't use the important principles of visual rhetoric.
So, to take a step back, when do I use visual rhetoric? Now. Always. Let
me give you an example........ Yesterday
I was angry at a situation and I wanted the world to know
it. So what did I
do? I put my head phones in, set my jaw so straight it
hurt, and walked home like I was competing in the olympic
speeed-walking event.
If those near me didn't catch the completely
un-
oral
message that I was ticked,
they were blind.
It wasn't text written across my forehead, only the
crazy
visual expressions of emotion
that kept
the
sappy, kind, "Let Me Fix You Up Dear" people
at bay.

1 comment:

  1. Interestingly enough, I'm guessing the other people who were "observing that you were ticked off" were probably so busy using visual rhetoric themselves that they didn't even notice. If everyone talks (visually speaking of course) and nobody listens, does it even matter if anyone talks? Finally, a quote from my dad: "It's better to be pissed off than pissed on" I'm glad you were pissed off and not pissed on.

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