upon viewing ‘Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world’

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw

I just watched some of this video of the “2nd largest aquarium in the world,” but not the whole thing because it was fucking boring. The first thing I thought to myself as I pressed > was, ‘Where is the video of the 1st largest aquarium in the world?’ The second thing I thought to myself was ‘What’s the point?’ followed ten seconds later by, ‘Seriously, what is the fucking point?’ Then I wondered if there’s actually a segment of the population who finds meaning in 4:34 of fish listening to piano ballads while floating around in a barren concrete tank. I wondered if the video would have taken on some significance for me if it had been set to Metallica or Ghostface Killah because then I could watch it with friends and laugh at the incongruities when certain things happened with the fish at certain points in the song. But nothing at all happens. It’s completely devoid of meaning and nothing happens and only the biggest fish in the whole tank gets to swim counterclockwise at one point but every other smaller fish is forced to swim clockwise, all day, every day, until it dies and gets eaten by the other fish. And when the big fish dies even it will get eaten by the other fish for at least a little bit, until the aquarium staff pull it from the water and chop it into pieces to be incinerated/made into food for other fish. Is there beauty in that, then?

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