Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!oaf From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: The obligatory "why color analysis sux" Message-ID: <583@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 00:58:15 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.583 Posted: Fri Aug 9 00:58:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 23:25:51 EDT References: <74@axiom.UUCP> <2567@ut-sally.UUCP> <935@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 42 Summary: I flame a bit I'm not gonna respect myself in the morning but... ******************************** I think color analysis sux because it is an artificial means to a sterile and uninteresting goal. It has no flavor of living, of doing things, of tasting or feeling or breathing or laughing or sweating or fighting or running or love or anger or good sex or anything worthwhile. Just a method of choosing one's clothes, makeup, and glass eyes to learn to pay good money in order to produce a transitory aesthetic effect IN SOMEONE ELSE'S EYES, not even one's own, ferchrissake. Worse still, the effect is at least partially dependent on the observer's knowing color analysis too. How incestuously narcissistic. Or can you use it for esthetic onanism? Do they train you to admire yourselves in mirrors or something? [Maybe I'm wrong and it helps you meet MOTASes in dimly-lit dance bars, laundromats and other romantic locations. "Hi, I'm stuffy and stuck-up, and I notice by your nail polish that you are too. Let's fuck." Yow!] Primarily, it is training for showing off to the class of people impressed by showoffs: Douglas Adams had it dead right in _the_ _Restaurant_ _at_ _the_ _End_ _of_ _The_ _Universe_, when he talked about some disgusting canapes which were hideously expensive, and sold terrifically well because they were a great way for rich idiots to impress other rich idiots with how much they were willing to spend to impress them. Nobody says you have to do "useful" things in your spare time, but this is consciously distasteful, crude and shameless. It is a manifestation of cosmic ennui, and a demonstration that you just don't care about real things. Frankly, I have some difficulty imagining a rich and meaningful interaction with someone who can't ALWAYS find something better to do with {his or her} leisure hours. [I probably justed screwed up my chances on net.quick-pickups this weekend.] Pooh is right on! Stick to your guns, kid. -- Oded Feingold {decvax, harvard, mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA MIT AI Laboratory 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617-253-8598