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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Warn Me If My Head Explodes While I'm Writing This
Today was going to be a good day. I had two tests at school that were both open-book and open-note. I'm going to see Mitch Hedberg and Stephen Lynch at the Wlitern tonight. Pretty sweet, right? That's what I thought...until Mike Sterling brought something to my attention that pissed me off really, really, really, really bad.
As I mentioned at the end of my post about the DC Solicits I don't get the reason why anyone would buy this or this ($89.95!) or this ($350!). To me it is the height of materialism. I thought I had said all I needed to say until I saw what Mike linked to, a replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite that went for $1,475 on eBay. Every word of the following is true: while in my car driving to school I was screaming loudly to myself about how so much money can be so easily spent on something like that. The sad thing is that poor ol' Han isn't the worst or the last of them.
I've since calm down a little but the whole mentality of buying (and buying and buying and buying...) these "collectibles" is a great example of people filling their lives with useless junk for no good reason. Hell, I even use to have some McFarlane Toys (the Alcie Cooper and Freddy Krueger ones) and I certainly read enough comics, although I am cutting down on that lest my wallet tries to slit my throat. Still I can't understand how some people can get to the point where they can spend $149.95 on the X-Men Cerebro Helmet Replica. There's just so many better ways to spend money and time.
Should I even talk about how people with that much expendable income could contribute to the World Wildlife Fund so maybe they'll have a world to live in first? Should I even suggest the idea that those who have enough time searching for the perfect piece of Star Trek memorabilia could maybe volunteer for Habitat for Humanity so others might one day have the luxury to search for crappy shit on the Internet (and that's what it all comes down to, people who have overdosed on luxury)? Do I risk sounding like some kind of shrill, guilt-ridden, politically correct college kid ruing other people's use of their good fortune? Is it even worth it? I feel like there's no turning back. People who have dived headfirst into the world of geekery don't change their ways. Instead they spend their lives with all those meaningless pop culture artifacts to help them forget whatever it is that makes them act like this in the first place.
The more I think about it I wonder if everyone who is really into comics, toys, fantasy novels, etc. has some kind of problem. If that's true then I'm Exhibit A in proving that case. Maybe I'll feel different tomorrow, although feeling better or worse I don't know.
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