....in the words of mike dirn't.
well, what a world
we've built for ourselves? eh? i find that little chorus that's tucked
away in a random song at the end of a criminally underrated album to be
the words that pop up in my head on a near-daily basis. that and the
question of "how convenient does life need to get before it becomes too
convenient?"
we live in a nation where we constantly claim to be
the greatest country in the world yet are hated by millions around the
world for our ignorance, our arrogance, our poking our nose into other
people's business, and our disgusting pop culture. how do these people
at the big mtv board of directors offices sleep at night? they aren't
dumb, they've exploited the youth in a ridiculously clever way. they've
promoted a disgusting culture and embraced failure in young
people.....as long as it is "good television." how disgusting. we are
no longer a production industry, we've morphed into a service industry.
we've become pompous and arrogant about our own ignorance. hell, most
people who use the word "ignorant" have literally no clue of what it
actually means!!!!
and back to this whole mtv thing.
these jersey shore/real world/bullshit look-at-me-i'm-a-clown tv shows
have embraced a frat-boy-stereotype culture that is disgusting to share a
bar with. i don't need to hear some idiot yell "yolo" while he does a
shot of crown and talks about how his girlfriend is a "hot mess" while
i'm trying to sip my beer and watch the hockey game. and why is it ok
for these meat-heads to wear t-shirts with blatant vulgarity on
them!??!?!? remember when a man dressed like a fucking man? and wore a
nice shirt, nice pants, and a nice hat on a daily basis? why can't we
go back to that? nobody needs to see your biceps dude. except, of
course, the girls who are even dumber than you are and so brainwashed by
the television that they think you're hot cause you look like the dude
on real world.
and god forbid everything we do isn't
broadcast to the world INSTANTLY. instagram. facebook. twitter.
smart phones. do we really need these things? i survive without 3 of
the 4 and i do just fine. and being gone for 5 days and not being able
to check my facebook was wonderful. HOW CONVENIENT DOES LIFE NEED TO
GET BEFORE IT BECOMES TOO CONVENIENT!!!!? it's disgusting. these
things are idiotic. i do not care about your twitter feed and what
you're doing every second of every day. stop fucking hashtagging key
words and if you really have something interesting to say, then spell it
out for real. i'm disgusted by these people who are a slave to their
own technology. video games are just as big of a culprit. man,
anything we can do to escape our own boring lives, right? god forbid we
get our hands dirty and learn a trade or develop a hobby. that's just
gross to even think about. i mean, who retains any knowledge these days
anyways? you can just look up everything you need to know on your
smart phone!
we are a disgusting culture!
and
twerking? jesus h. christ. dancing in general has gotten out of
control. i don't dance, i've made that publicly known many times
before. but if you wanna dance with me like how they danced in the old
age, then i will gladly hold your hand and go for a twirl. i will not,
however, be humping you on the dance floor like we're ready to have
sex. it's disgusting. how did such a romantic and culturally
significant act degrade itself and turn into a disgusting display of
sex?! can't we save our sexual tension for where it belongs? ya
know...keep it personal between you and your partner? of course not,
cause i mean.....who doesn't cheat these days? it's just totally fine
to go around banging other guys/girls....i mean, unless your the one
who's getting cheated on while trying to be faithful. but fuck that
square anyways, he/she's gotta get with the program and start banging
out other people behind their significant other's backs. and really,
what do we dance to? it doesn't sound like music to me. i thought
music had instrumentation...didn't it at one point at least?
but
hey, we're all "progressive thinkers" nowadays. facebook is cluttered
with "republicans are idiots" "you're an idiot if you believe in god" or
"don't take our guns" posts. shut up. half of you are idiots and are
just spewing out the rhetoric of other people anyways. where's your
belief structure? when obama got elected, people flipped shit because
of his skin color....but everyone i asked who was celebrating (by
setting off the fire alarms of all the dorm rooms on my college campus
by the way, a huge safety issue) had literally no idea of his policies.
it's the whole randy marsh "it's change, everything's going to be
different but i don't know why!" stand point. thank god for south park,
it's at least kept me partially sane for a while. but i digress. so
obama gets elected and people riot for reasons that they themselves
don't understand. fast forward a few years and george zimmerman is
found not guilty. and people riot again for reasons they don't
understand. can't you idiots research ANYTHING before you flip out?
the most racist thing about that whole trial wasn't the shooting, it was
the way people reacted to the verdict without looking at any statistics
involving interracial crime. SHUT THE FUCK UP! PLEASE!
i
made an effort about a year ago to try and stop focusing on politics so
much because it was making me miserable. i used to really focus on the
corruption and the conspiracy and the off-kilter idiocy of everything
and i wanted to worry more about what makes me happy. but what it did
was make me realize just how idiotic we are on a social level. i
mean....how DARE we suggest there's any conspiracy in government. the
american government....there's no possible way they could have any
involvement in the world trade center attack or any of the other
outrageous political bullshit that has occurred since. and if you think
there is, you are clearly a wack job, right? i mean...it's not like we
didn't stage bombings to try and take out castro, or that we didn't
know about pearl harbor ahead of time and turn a blind eye so that it
gave us an excuse to go to war. oh wait....all that did happen. but
not anymore! that's in the past! right?!?!?!? RIGHT?!?!?!?!? give me a
fucking break! you people are morons. we're in a bigger mess than
ever.
and on a side note, why are you close minded if
you oppose gay marriage? not that i oppose it, i could really care
less. but it's these "progressive thinkers" that think you're an old
redneck bible thumper if you're not into gay marriage. ya know, the
people who say "everyone has a right to have their own opinion!"
well....what if that person's opinion is that they believe in the
religious sanctity of marriage and that's the way they interpret the
bible? is it not ok because their right to an opinion isn't YOUR
opinion? shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are
soooooooooooooooo backwards!
ya know, i really hate
it. i friggin hate it man. it makes me scared to ever want to bring a
kid into this world, or even live past 30. how bad is it going to get
if it's already this disgusting? i often say i feel i was born in the
wrong time period, and i really believe that. there's so very few
things that are truly pure in society anymore. and believe me, i know
that i'm far from perfect. i wish i knew what to do about it. maybe
it's that old jesse lacey phrase, ya know, let's die young and save
ourselves. or maybe it's an even older rivers cuomo phrase, and
sometimes it don't seem so bad to settle down with a good woman....ya
know, and just settle into an old-fashioned happy marriage and ignore
the idiocy. but then what happens when you have kids and they go to
school and see this disgusting culture? you can't home school them,
because then they have no social skills and become an outcast. how do
you win? i really don't know.
thank god pumpkin beer is out already, it's gonna be a long end of summer/fall.
if you read all of this, then man, i hope i didn't ruin your day.
-jc.
ps: the album is still coming.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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