Andy Warhol and Excessvism

The philosophy of Andy Warhol and works by K. Silem Mohammed are both non-fiction, first person narratives. Both can be quite repetitive, such as Andy Warhol saying “I think, I was, I look” and in the other story had poems that were repetitive. The reading is simple, but might be confusing to others. At times his ideas can be silly and comical, and other times outright stupid. “When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can’t believe that people are still pregnant.” Well just what was he expecting? Maybe a scene from The Matrix where everyone is hooked up to tubes? He talks about people having a tube attached to their butts so they can recycle their food and don’t have to worry about buying food. A few pages near the end he mentions something that we have been talking about in class for a while. America is often described as a melting pot, yet people in the same groups live with each other, eat the same food. As he says, it needs to “mix and mingle.”  Andy Warhol was a visionary, honest and I can see a lot of me in him. Many of his ideas and views resonate with me. An example within the text is when Andy says “What makes a person spend time being sad when they could be happy?” Why is that? I’m not saying I am completely absolved of emotions like anger and sadness, and they do have their uses, but what good does that do me? I don’t spend my energy on that; I spend my energy on being happy. I choose to be happy and I choose to make the most out of everything. I don’t have enough room to talk about this short passage, as just about everything is quotable.

                The other reading was quite hard and often goes off in a tangent. The next sentence hardly has anything to do with anything said previously. Later you learn that it deals with abstraction, although that’s not the way I would of written it. Even the English is off, maybe intentionally.