Symbolism

I think I hate symbolism. One thing standing in for another thing -- for what fucking reason? "That tree represents my son's young life" Why? Why, why, why? Why not be direct or at least be clever or descriptive or something.

I like metaphor and simile and analogy -- the comparison of unlike things in order to deepen our understanding of the thing. I don't like bad metaphor or simile. "Your eyes are as blue as the ocean." Bad, bad, bad. Oceans are blue. Eyes are blue. The relationship adds nothing. You should write "Your eyes are a deep blue." Only compare when there is no other way to describe. "Your eyes are as blue as song." That says something that is impossible to say any other way; it provides a sense.

Back to symbolism. I should really read more about it since I hate it so much and am also not sure I know what it is precisely. Still I think what I hate most is symbolic politics. Clinton was impeached not for a blowjob or really for lying under oath about something that isn't a crime. (People don't get prosecuted for lying about things that aren't crimes. It would take too much resource.) He was impeached by the GOP because they got all upset about what it means symbolically for the president to have lied under oath, and gotten blowjobs.

The media reports on what a thing symbolizes on the campaign trail rather than what it actually is.

Yet, I think real things happen for real people in the halls of government, in the world, everywhere. Symbolism, sure, I can't avoid it. We naturally, perhaps, make symbols in our head in order to understand things -- but its only 10% of the thing. The rest is actually happening but everyone is talking about the 10% and it's obscuring the 90%.

OK. This rant probably makes no sense. I'm glad no one is reading this blog. I do like writing it though. Strange. I wouldn't journal about this because it isn't personal enough to care about personally yet I would write about it in a public place that I don't think anyone sees, hoping no one sees, but only worth writing because it public. Yet again hoping no one sees. Ah, the world of psychology. . . Not so complicated really. . .

I should really think between periods of sentences, if for no other reason than this syntax is awful.

Mornin;.