the joyless

pico iyer's article in nytimes "the joy of less"

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/the-joy-of-less/

i don't like pico iyer. pico iyer is a pompous bitch.

pico writes about his quest for inner peace, and identifies with a holocaust victim he quotes at the beginning of the article. smooth move you self absorbed prick.

pico has had it with hard nyc life, the park avenue apartment must go! nyc is too much of everything and can not fulfill the huge vacuum that is his soul. he hates broadband and needs to listen to sigur ros uninterrupted. he cannot be weighed down by his cell phone, he can not be bothered with daily news; the world’s problems will all work itself out in some imaginary buddhist masturbation session; and why should the world weigh itself down on pico?

so the pompous bitch moves to japan where he can turn off his cell phone and enjoy a simpler life of pokemon and square shaped watermelons. he feels japan will bring him the simplier life, but really all he is doing is immersing himself in a foreign culture that enables him to concentrate on reaching some kind of narcissism nirvana.

i hope he chokes on his eel roll.