notes from underground

I want to begin with an idea of Friedrich Nietzsche’s in which he claims that a popular culture unites a people and provides a common ground.  I certainly don’t disagree with this but consider this of the commoners and the mindless masses who can endure to be entertained or rather preoccupied in such a manner.  Not that I consider myself vastly superior but without a doubt a step above these lowlings.   But what am I doing dallying with the spectacle, this terrible star glaring above the ground.  I am certainly content to reside underground in silence and anonymity being a “nobody” like Emily Dickinson (http://www.beyondbooks.com/lit71/1f.asp).  At times, on quite days I have poked my head above ground only to see the terrible star of celebrity glowing overhead and immediately a rage and and impulse to strike and destroy was experienced.  I know there are many other people too out there enduring this glare and often times are over sensitive to this light and as a result are upset, habitually bothered, and chafed by it.  Allow me to quote from Nietzsche again, from the forward of Twilight of the Idols:  the underground “compels one every instant to run out into the sunshine so as to shake off a seriousness grown all to oppressive.  Every expedient for doing so is justified, every occasion a joyful occasion.  Above all war.  War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives…This book too…is above all a relaxation, a sunspot, an escapade into the idle hours of a” fallen nobody in the underground. So as it is, I have decided officially to go to war with this celebrity, gossip, Hollywood and star culture I hate.  But first I must have a good laugh at myself for making such vehement declarations  into the vastness of the web in which not a soul hears a word.  Nevertheless, this blog entry begins my march, a raising of war insignia, if you will, towards this end.