Zen and other religions, feminism, Feng-shui, fashion, astrology, and other similar “beliefs” are trendy nowadays.  Lately all these seem to strangely fashionable. Perhaps because people don’t like the reality they live in and try to find somewhere to hide or some way of translating what happens to them.

All these trends, give us a specific kind of way of how we should act and what we should think. Feng-shui tells us where we should put our plants, zen what kind of stones we should wear, feminism if we should wear sexy skirts or not, fashion if we should wear black this season, our horoscope if we should ask for a raise today, religion if it is a sin to have sex on Monday, and so on and so forth.

But Zen, for example is a really old religion and has nothing to do with all the hocus-pocus they sell us today. It is a school of Buddhism, that has to do with meditation and a certain way of life, which has nothing to do with our “western” way of upbringing and living, so we can’t really understand it. It’s like trying to learn how to dance traditional Greek music, you may make it, but you will seem rather funny to the people who really know how to do it.

Or let’s take astrology. It is an ancient way of interpreting the stars. The way the ancient people saw them from a specific place and with their own imagination. First of all, the stars are not even visible today in the same line they were 2.000 years ago. So everything is a big joke. Still, many people read and believe their horoscopes, and even make decisions based upon them.

Feminism, on the other hand, is not that old. It’s a new “movement”, that has to do with how women should see themselves. Still, feminism, after the big bang, now fades, and women after having earned themselves a spot in society, now should take a step back and see what they should do next. Instead, they want to keep fighting like men, and ignore their feminine side. Feminism is not feminine at all.

What pissed me off, was that, some time ago, I was reading a blog with feminist content. And most of those women seemed to hate Paris Hilton and all she represents. But one of the women who wrote articles to this blog, wrote about something Haris Pilton did, and how it proved she had nuts, in her opinion. And suddenly, all these fighting women changed their minds about her, and seemed to like her, only because one of their own, someone who they respected and follow, obviously, told them to.

Or, fashion. Fashion is for naive people. I am not saying we should wear rugs, or that our appearance does not matter. It does. But, hey, think about it. There are people who live to buy an expensive bag, which if it wasn’t for the name on the side, they would probably not even want it for a door mat. If my car had seats at this color and design, I would cover them up.

About a week ago I learned that a friend of mine wants to change his life. Or, rather, change his lifestyle. This word might seem harmless, but it is not in reality. So he wants to write PHP and watch Manga. He does write PHP, that is his job, and I am sure he likes to watch Manga. But he wants to do it an a frame, a certain style. Reminds me of the underground hackers which were in fashion 20 years ago.

I find this amusing, and all these people who try to be different by getting into little societies or groups which consist of people who are all the same amongst them. But they have no difference than those who want to buy a certain car to be noticed. They all agree to be sheep, in a different herd, it doesn’t really matter who the shepherd is.

Anyway, all these trends, really place an obstacle in front of us, and prevent us from seeing the reality. Reality is hard, sometimes cruel, but problems are for humans to solve. If you blame your stars or the position of the plants in your living room for a failure in a relationship or work, you let yourself be deceived. If you don’t allow yourself to be a woman, because feminists say so, you are just an idiot.

Why do people want to be told what to do? Why do they want to be affected so badly? It’s not about beliefs in a specific subject, it’s about the meaning of our whole life.

Is it a trend to not want to be trendy? Because I want to be trendy too, by not being trendy. Where do they sell some of this stuff? Linkz mi naw!