Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A Rant
I've recently come to see that I am no longer entitled to hold my own opinion. I can't state that, no, I do not like the Harry Potter series without people trying to change my views, and having them also state how wrong I am. I cannot state that I dislike Linkin Park without people getting angry (even though most of the times that I say it to Jack and Evan I'm aiming to get them angry). I can't stand out in the open and talk of how I do not support the communists, democrats, republicans, or whatever someone's political preferences may be. I can't state that I enjoy ska more than Lady Gaga, Kanye West, or whatever the hell the current fad is. I say that because no matter what the fad is, it is probably bad, as I've seen according to the music that people have come to like. I don't understand it. Why am I one of the people not entitled to opinions? Why do people have the strive to make it seem that they are right and that the other person is always wrong? Why can't people just let others watch, read, and listen to what they want? This is one of the reason I'm misanthropic. We've come to a point where we want to force our beliefs on everybody else. We want everyone to be just like us. We can now be almost completely compared to earlier peoples, who forced you to convert to their religion or they would kill you. We are becoming like the people in the Salem witch trials, who burnt people because they feared their ideas were different. Soon we'll be like the "blond beast." It should be easy to see the reference to the person in that one, and it should also be easy enough to see where I'm going with this. Human nature sucks, because we have the want to control everything. There can't be anything that goes against our ideas, or anything that seems even slightly alien to us. We can't accept anything. What is the world coming to?
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We aren't "becoming" close minded jerks who, like an infection, strive spill the trend like a disease onto everyone they see. People have always been that way. And for the purposes of thriving and surviving as a race, it actually works. It may not be the most effective method, but evolution simply picks the traits that fit, not the traits that are best.
ReplyDeletePicture an ancient world where everyone didn't care what other people thought, there would be much less conflict. Which is a good thing at a first glance, but because of our intellectual barriers, civilization tends to only really learn lessons the hard way. Overall, the ignorant nature you're ranting about has actually contributed greatly to our race in terms of knowledge. Of course, this wouldn't be the case if people weren't so stupid. So I suggest ignoring the brick brained trend followers and just caring about the people who are more open minded; because in the end they're the only people who overall contribute to society.
-Dominic