The Theory of Green

i wore my green qotsa wife-beater today. it's 85 degrees in SF. And when i got to the BART station i felt a little bright. I wasn't really in a green mood. it's a little too much color for me today, i thought. I am really in a black or gray mood, feelin very happy, but happier in the shadow for a bit. It's too early to be overt. And to stay in the shadow, one must blend. Had i followed the going fashion as evidenced by the rush hour goers at the BART station (all prepped for their days at school/ work or wherever they were off to...) I would have stuck with my black or gray. could have looked just like them. but i wore Green. almost by accident. wished i had on black for just a moment, just to blend. but...green....why do i care? It's not "in" maybe?

Well.. thank goodness for trite thoughts even if rooted in vanity, as such synaptic snaps may lead to a wiser understanding of the world around us. So here they are. those thoughts. In the world i am creating.

In everything we do as humans we exhibit our tendency for varying degrees of mass hysteria. Whether we attend a baseball game and participate in the wave (everyone else is doing it) or cheer for the home team even if its only a temporary home - as humans we are showing our tendency toward cohesive behavior. the only real terminology for this is "mass hysteria" - so from this point forward "mass hysteria" refers to cohesive patterns of behavior. Whether or not you consider it hysteria, well, that's the world you create. for yourself.

Fashion is simply one more form of mass hysteria disguised as acceptable - in our consumer's paradise we manufacture goods and naturally create our own cycles based not on need but innate tendencies to conform in varying ways. We don't indulge in simple wool or even leather, we add flair. but not consistent flair - the clothes we don in certain eras, the "style" of the "time" ebbs and flows like any other facet of universal nature. Puppets of the star, we are. Fashion is an energy like any other and goes through cycles and migrations.

for example, AliB will be full of laughter to learn that the blazer and tie for women (a residue of the 80s) is back in full swing according the old navy display window at market & 4th in SF. I swore to never engage in that look again, and i was smart enough to know it was unattractive at age 9. But it's all the rage again. Another obvious cycle. But what fuels it.

Neon was basically back "in" this summer. Bright colors. and even le sport sacs came back. in bright colors. perhaps the colors we pick in large numbers as a cohesive consumerist society reflect the general mood of the mass subconscious. As a nation we exist, at some level, as a single unit. We share an understanding we cannot yet define, but we are members of our nation. And recently the color black is "in." neon went out as fast as you can say "sub par approval ratings, finally" - general malaise affects our cohesive psyche on the subconscious level. and with the need to consume each season and settle for sub par manufacturing of our clothing, this season yields, thus far, a need to blend in. with each other.

Sucking our energies from the same light, existing in a society we allow ourselves to maintain, we cannot stop the osmosis of our subconscious.

May The Force Be With You.