degero miro claro

I’ve been in a poopy mood lately, and haven’t gotten around to blogging. Not that there’s been nothing to blog about – President-elect Obama, Prop 8 insanity, the meaning of life, pondering cholesterol and being stoked that I realized I should just eat vegan baked goods from now on, the law of attraction and positive thinking and all of that.

But, I’m just feeling cut off and unmotivated, so I’ll have to get to all that later.

I did just see something that will make for a nice short entry. There was this Ford commercial where the voiceover was comparing different aspects of the car to other things people want out of a major item like that, “Can a driver be a pilot?” comparing the driver’s seat to a jet cockpit, etc.

Then the voiceover asks, “Can luxury be performance?”

…… ugh

Performance IS luxury. It doesn’t make any sense to separate the two. The only reason luxury exists is because things were ever made to function at the highest possible quality the human race could manage. And those things are then usually beautiful because they are made properly (a dress, a car, a meal), and made with scarcer resources, so they become expensive and un-common, and are then considered a luxury. I feel like it messes up our society’s values when we don’t look at things because of what they are, but attach superficial status to everything.

If performance is not already intrinsically a part of luxury, then what is luxury? A car that drives like crap and breaks down every month – but don’t worry – it’s encrusted in diamonds, so it’s luxury!!

Something stupid.