Exhaustion of the Obvious

[k5lta]

Agreed LogicJunkie!!, I'm 19 and let me tell my generation is finished!! when your generation uses tampons and soak them up with alcohol and stick them in their asses to get drunk that way you lose hope, when your generation wants to party all the damn time and doesn't want to address real world problems that disparately needs to be addressed, you lose even more hope, its truly sad..

[TheLogicJunkie]

Now let me ask you this, because I honestly don't know the answer:

Is your generation like that because they grew up so spoiled and pampered that they've never had to develop real character, or is it the exact opposite, that they grew up so insanely neglected in some critical way or ways that compels them to fill the void with any activity that makes them experience a powerful feeling of any sort?

[k5lta]

@TheLogicJunkie I think its a combination of both.

[ihatepokemon12]

you should see the episode of southpark named " Your Getting Old" were everything to him sounds like shjt and is getting tired of life lol

[ihatepokemon12]

omg ur hit the nail on the head when u mentioned the video game analogy, I completly understand u on that

[lamiasubs]

Hey man quick question..why can't I stream all of your videos on my iPhone? :(

[InvisibleFriend77]

Movies are the same! People are the same! Their conversations are the same! There must be more to life to experience than this!

[luvlatinmamis]

Um so I kind of agree to an extent. From time to time yeah things get repetitive. No there is nothing new under the sun yada yada yada. What you call obvious is obvious to a lot of people. There are a lot of kids that aren't doing tricks on ramps with bikes because they don't want to get hurt. The same themes in music and movies will repeat. But think of it this way. How many letters in the alphabet? How many words in the english language? Life still offers great variety.

[trewells]

Good points on Idiocracy. I love that movie. Even my wife who normally hates crude movies laughed at it. But do see how society is getting dumber.

[TheLogicJunkie]

I would say it's even worse than society merely getting dumber -- I say that society has actually been conspired to have an "apartheid of intelligence", whereby a select clique possesses most or all of the intelligence and critical knowledge, and everyone else breathes with their mouths open and stares at the wall.

[trewells]

It's like I posted on one of your other videos last week, the movie "Idiocracy" is spot on!

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yes, you're exactly right. But even Idiocracy isn't sinister enough, because there would have to be a shadow techno-elite that secretly controls and maintains technology from behind the scenes, in that movie. After all, those brain-dead apes still have the use of some very sophisticated high technology, and who's maintaining THAT?

So, either they're all stupid but there are hidden smart people, or some of the stupid people are only PRETENDING to be stupid. ;-)

[sanitary103]

You probably get this question a million times but will you be making any new videos anytime soon? I'm sure you're probably just fed up with sh*t in general which is understandable. Good videos though.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@sanitary103 Thanks for asking. I moved across country two years ago, and I've had my new camera sitting around waiting to be used. So I'll probably be doing more relatively soon.

[SomethingSea1]

The State makes the Obvious Obtuse.

Do you expect any different?

Theism makes atheism Obtuse.

Emotional ... eh, fuck it.

[GlobalDating]

kids today have no good role models. they ought to show reruns of Mr. Rogers, but they don't. that show taught basic morality and kindness.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@GlobalDating Even the Electric Company was better than the hypnotizing PC mind-babble they have today...

[GlobalDating]

LogicJunkie, I too complained that I had no kids. But when I had one... oh boy. Let me tell you, you regret A LOT MORE having them than not having them. Let me give it to you straight. When a kid sucks your time, energy and resources EVERYDAY, without giving anything back, you soon regret it and realize that mother nature scams you into having kids by making you feel empty without them. at that point, you feel like a total fool. but you're stuck with them for 20 yrs. so you're screwed.

[vladdt]

Man, I couldn't agree more - I'm sick of everything - anything (literature, art, music, film etc.) just feels like a "quick fix" - just makes me feel like a junkie. I do something, I tire of it, and I'm bored all over again......I'll see people in bars standing around drinking/playing pool, or people in cafes on their laptops ignoring each other and I think "This is so damn mundane. This is really what people settle for as an escape?" I swear I feel like Enid or Seymour from Ghost World

[40gabe]

I hear you man. Rhianna's S&M video makes me feel exactly like that. Sado masochism as pop culture? Really? I love to dominate a female with dirty nasty sex, no doubt, but S&M? Please. But it's not that bad dude. Really. At least we no longer actually fling poop at each other anymore. At least.

[TheLogicJunkie]

*LOL* I love the way you phrased that.

However I'm not sure that our way of living is really an improvement on just flinging poop. We weren't psychologically hounded and tormented in every INconceivable way.

[CognitionPrime]

@40gabe What a fresh breath of relief see a comment like this. Western pop music today has to be greatest abomination to mankind. The whole thing with CD and record sales going down appears to be 'apocalyptic' and the true value of this music is being exposed. The mainstream record company is the real crime against humanity, and should be charged with such.

[PlaceOfYes]

I can really relate to what you are saying in this. Have you ever read the Book of Mormon?

[missaquaboogie]

You can't "educate" all of them...humans breed EXPONENTIALLY...Morality exists entirely out of religion...always have. Religion, Racism, Homophobia, Sexism are the ultimate human perversions...I've become another member of the hopeless. Waiting for when the next big disaster happens...

[TheLogicJunkie]

Well, I don't blame you for the hopelessness. There's only so much anyone can do against the Bilderbrats.

[missaquaboogie]

I tend to only want to deal with people who already know what is going on...most people who know what is going on...I have no interest in teaching people---no patience---we need people...have already know since a little kid that we were being fucked with...It takes a LONER to get it. I can NEVER be a teacher...people tell me I should be one---WHY---god I would have committed suicide within a few days hahaha

[b45100]

three words: YOU ARE AMAZING. I cannot believe that I finally found a video that I actually relate to. You are very down to earth and you speak the truth. I listen to your videos all the time. God bless.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Gawrsh... Well thanks!

:-)

[TheRogueMonk]

its time to pick up some weights start cardio and you have yourself a healthy past time .. that will keep you busy ! :D i do that.

and i agree .. how can new children be so good at school because they are atleast here but they miss some obvous things...

i dont understand wouldt evolution atleast not miss out on what it already had?

i do blame media and that sociaty you have talkd about .. that process with college

[NewWaveFan1]

"It's called morality shit for brains" epic.

[WelathElevated]

You should try to find more things that you are passionate about and enjoy. I have no idea what life is supposed to be - but when I'm laughing, I think I'm getting close! :)

[Firenzieful]

What are you studying? Of course there are many things that we like to do. But when it comes to finding out what you wanna do, you have to ask yourself three simple questions: 1. Does it fulfill you? 2. Do you have passion about it?

3. Will this job make you happy for a long time?

Never try to make your hobby to your job, cuz there is a saying that "If you make your hobby to your job you have to find a new hobby" and that is, I think really true.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yes, you're right. But I also have come to the conclusion that I think the "ideal job" criterion that makes the most sense to me is this:

"What could you stand to do all day, every day, possibly for the rest of your life? What would you not be tired and miserable doing, from eight or nine in the morning, to possibly well after five p.m.?"

[dexile]

@TheLogicJunkie or pick one, do it, then move on to the next one. One of those quaint sayings, "variety is the spice of life". lol It's funny because it's true. You haven't found a better way, so quit complaining, and just do something already. I mean, I feel ya, because I was/am still there, but just trying to utilize the Serenity Prayer... "to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

[farmgent]

Trust me.  If you have kids, you will not ever be bored!

[barberbeau]

@ TheLogicJunkie

We're only bored because we're so intelligent, buddy. I turned to hallucinogens, to be honest. Makes movies and videogames more interesting. But dude, your videos are awesome, man. I can't believe I listen to you talk for 10 minutes. I had given up on YouTube rants.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Glad you liked it. I know I needed to do it.

[thinedoor2]

No matter how disciplined one's thinking and varied one's experience, you can always find something new. This can be exposing yourself to unfamiliar dimensions of the arts, sciences and philosophy or just reevaluating/synthesizing whatever knowledge and opinions you have.

But, yeah, I feel exactly the same way.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yeah, that's true... and also, for me, very often I'm content when I have no stimulation around me but a moonlit beach at night, nobody else is around me, and I can just walk and walk, and it's nothing but me, the clouds and the waves splashing on the shore.

[decimated550]

Dude, it's amazing how you put yourself and your thoughts out there, i commend you for it, it helps us look inside ourselves. I was like that for years, a philosophical. But really, unwrap, unwind, not everything or everyone is an archetype of some category. Yes patterns do repeat in life but don't let that essential fact be your source of the blues. Throw a little caution to the wind, and ... listen to some Frank Zappa. Have you ever? It did half my life ago at 15. You'll enjoy it.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Well, a lot of my angst was that I was trapped in the Pacific Northwest -- the most miserable place I've ever lived. But I've been back in Florida for a few months now, and I'm beginning to be my old self again.

[75SilentWarrior]

You think what you believe is morally correct is obvious, that it is the same for everyone. But morality is completely subjective, nobody has the same morals as anyone else.

[CammieSpectrum]

I'm sorry you are bored with everything...I am to an extent as well...but I've been working on a teleological theory of existence for 8 years that is coming to an end...the newest draft of it will be online in a couple of weeks. I'll keep you posted. As for music, you should check out Autechre.....there newest album is Oversteps..you can listen to the whole album on youtube. check out the songs 'Treale' and 'Known(1)'...and movies bother me because the way people act is so idealized

[aprilrosemusic]

I only watch movies based on true stories.

I have not seen any for the last 10 years. Just not interested at all. But I have to admit that You make good videos.

[TheRavenPHT]

Very well said.

[JDaragonH]

Yeah, the obvious does have to be stated to some people nowadays. I've seen it a lot in my school, but it never bothered me.

Nice points you made.

[ZullGostnu2]

I didn't see a video and a long time, so I had to manual check, youtube doesn't tell me when you have a video...a form of censorship.

[abbesieyes]

Do you really believe that there is a mad impetus forcing children to advance? I see exactly the opposite. Perhaps its because I don't treat drinking, screwing, etc as being all that 'grown up'.

I see that those who should be adult are maintained in a perpetual state of adolescence.  TV, video games, computer games, pop culture...all established to prevent real 'adulthood'...which begins with questioning everything.

Compare tests and writings of 'youth' from the 1800's to today.

[inquisitive871]

You should read "Dubliners" written James Joyce. He talks about epiphanies about how the same cycle over and over again. It gets passed down to generation to generation.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Thanks... I've heard good things about Joyce. I'll have to pick up a copy of it.

[starfireucsd]

i don't know dave. maybe you would enjoy more spending time alone or interacting with like-minded people like us on youtube.

I was thing maybe you should learn how to play an instrument or something to get your mind occupied. like yourself, i don't find anything that is particularly interesting. i play piano myself so when i have some free time i try to play as much as i can.

also you should just get out of the house and go hiking or something. get away from this boring, tedious world.

[starfireucsd]

anyway, have a safe trip to Florida. i am enlisting in military and shipping out very soon so i will be missing your vids for a while. Until then, so long.....

[sanitary103]

just barely have caught on with some of your videos...hope you keep the videos coming

[TheLogicJunkie]

Glad you like 'em.  And, yes, I wll, once I finish my move back to the east coast.

[zpreston2006]

i am so with you man

[TheLogicJunkie]

w00t

[carehappens]

ditto

[Morphious142777]

Make more videos logic junkie. Where have you gone? Have you lost your passion for videos with your awesome commentary about the world?

[TheLogicJunkie]

Thank you... I will. For the time being, though, my laptop is being repaired -- it was apparently a bad CPU fan. It should be fixed within the upcoming week.

[74u73hjd]

The sad thing is that I'm 20 and I understand this obvious stuff and the old generation is also stupid when it thinks that college is going to cure all this stupidity.

[TheLogicJunkie]

That's another good point: it's horrifying just how insane the older generation has become, too.

There is no adult supervision, anywhere.

[74u73hjd]

the problem is that people can't understand that age has nothing to do with intelligence stupid people automatically think the smarter you are the older you are. What really disgusts me is that you can die for your country at the age of 18 but, you're still not responsible enough to drink and gamble until you're 21. The idiots who made these laws are morons themselves. (not to say I want to drink and gamble and sadly just as you said exhausting the obvious.)

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yep. It's disturbing how we create this mad impetus for jumping to "adulthood" by treating children like second-class citizens, and then wonder why they're in such a hurry to start drinking, screwing, doing drugs and other activities that equate with being "grown up".

[WarRogers]

This vid is an obvious 5 stars. I agree completely

[TheLogicJunkie]

Thanks...

[djdevil0000]

Aye Logic Junkee i know theres sum shit you wanna get off your chest, your fellow logistics men are ding out here.... we need sum sort of new youtube vid from you, pretty much everything else out there on youtube isnt worth watching..

great vid tho, exactly how i feel

[TheLogicJunkie]

I'll get one out as soon as I get my laptop back from the shop. It was having serious problems.

[LeftLiberalSoCal]

Facebook? I see the same thing. They all have kids. I try to look at the positive side. The only way I will have kids is if I can provide them with the best. And the best costs money. Private school. Things like this. I'm not bringing an innocent life into this world without offering them the best chance I can. This is why I have no respect for most of today's single mothers. And losers. And people who are genetically inferior that have kids. Look at what they selfishly gave another person.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Well, my main beef is with people who actually worship evil and injustice as "supreme virtues", having kids and indoctrinating them with that sadomasochistic mindset. I mean, yes, it's critical to be able to provide stability and high-priority knowledge to your child, but I think the biggest problem is with people with either high or low IQ's who worship evil, as is so supremely popular nowadays. Give me a low-IQ person who has his head screwed on straight, over a sociopath genius any day.

[LeftLiberalSoCal]

You could try smoking a joint and watching old movies 8D. Seriously find some punk kid and ask him if he can get you a bag.

[rosesdiary]

YES YES YES!!!! I feel the same way! I'm 17 and I look at all the lower ages and I honestly believe that they're becoming dumber. Especially in the black community. It's the same cycle of dysfunction. I shouldn't have to tell a 20 yr old mom to not leave her toddler alone in the house, while she's at the club. It all just feels like a downward spiral of dysfunction.

[TheLogicJunkie]

I think what's going to have to happen, is that logical people are going to have to start finding each other, gathering together, and then actually distancing themselves geographically to some location where they can establish some safety and sanity from the rest of the hordes.

And before anyone goes calling such an idea a "cult", be aware that that's how all new nations and states got started. In fact, few people criticize the Amish for establishing such a community.

[eteachout]

Try watching the Maury Povich show. There's a good way to go insane. Stupid people love to breed.

[Offatwork]

I could not agree more. There are so many things that are just so tirelessly repeated in our culture. Some of which are not even true. You would be surprised how many people do not know basic economic rationalistic logic. Stuff which I see as obvious. For example, minimum wage creates structural unemployment or that taxes create deadweight loss.

It's like trying to constantly educate people who think that the sun revolves around the earth.

[TheLogicJunkie]

A research group at the Harvard Business School did a study and found that something like 32% of the business executives they surveyed could not pass a knowledge test of fundamental financial and accounting concepts. Amongst the most calamitous deficiencies was the lack of knowledge of the difference between scheduled net profits and actual positive cash flow. So many of these CEO's don't realize that calculated profits don't mean actual solvency in terms of cold, hard, cash.

[ojdidit92]

Maybe peaple are starting to forget to teach the obvious. I mean im 16 and i have failed a couple grades but its not because im stupid its because im lazy i feel how you feel i feel like i have been tought this stuff already and im too tired to do it again.

[TheLogicJunkie]

So do you keep failing because there's some way they're not explaining things? Or do you have stuff in your personal life that is distracting you mentally?

[ojdidit92]

well im terrible at math so im not suprised at failing that but its wierd it seems like the more simple minded you are the better you will do, Like in history the other students memorize what the teacher says so that when a question comes there able to answer it but they dont actually think about it i mean when the year is over they forget all about it there not actually intrested in it.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yep... there is definitely a vast machinery in place which heavily drives the downward evolution of everyone who isn't a member of the oldest moneyed families. They apparently want to keep everything good for themselves, and relegate everyone else to sub-humanity -- all to appease their insanely immature egos.

[laree2007]

Yeah I am one of those literate Missoulians WINK.

[laree2007]

Tedious Not if you are a marketer or into head trips. Check out Mark Penn's Micro Trends. There are people out there manipulating the public. There is a trend that is obvious the dumbing down of our society. Any Rand wrote about it in Return of the Primitive The Anti Industrialist. The American Educational System Cradle to Grave dumbing down of the populace. I understand why people home school and put their kids in private school. I think the Government is intentionally making us dumber.

[jb2134]

I feel similar. I loved the 80's and 90's culture as a kid (tv, movies, etc), but it seems like everything since 98/2000, has gotten more impersonal, disconnected, plastic, robotic, repetitive.

I think its lead alot of people to feel disconnected from society as a whole. Theres still fun stuff out there, youtube is my new tv. And other online entertainment.

[montaramike]

Dude I am so tired of TV, Radio and Movies, but those things do not constitute life. I am busy as hell at work and have almost no free time, my work sucks most of the time, but I am not bored with life. Radio SUCKS, TV SUCKS! I canceled my satellite tv and have a computer hooked to my big screen. So much good entertainment on the web. You just have to look.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yeah, I'm visiting my folks and they have a big-screen TV. I maybe watch three shows on the damn thing, although right now Patton Oswalt is doing a show on Comedy Central and he is simply amazing with his observations. We as a species will always be so desperate for metaphysics around the campfire that , in our current condition of alienated dehumanity, we are finding ways to get it from the internet or anywhere else we can.

Don't go anywhere, Mike. We need you here.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Spill your rude guts elsewhere.

[TheLogicJunkie]

And, of course, if we stop making blogs and analyzing the problem, then you have managed to silence all discussion, in favor of supposedly helping by "just doing anything".

Nice tactic.

I'll agree that action is always important, but the other half of fixing things is openly analyzing problems and figuring out causations and points of attack in those problems.

Is your intention to shut down one critical half of that process, thereby defeating all of it?

[girlmadhatter]

Solutions???? To the problems you're adressing.

[girlmadhatter]

Oh yeah the last question? I think I did a better job than you, when it comes to analyzing the problem. You just called the future generations dumb and stupid. "I think the future generations are getting dumber" wtf Reverse what I had stated in the comments I've made a few days ago and there's your solutions

[girlmadhatter]

It's like bashing the homeless. Is it their fault there were soda machines and junk food in most cafeterias. Is it their fault both parents had to work to make ends meet. They grew up in a place where adults didn't give a damn about them. A fucked up society where few intervened. I think you're talking about the rich ones. Yeah you might be a great dad but there's still the fucked up schools and the media putting the wrong ideas in their head. And are you gonna let their mom work all day.

[sportsbettingman]

The trump card is in your hand David!

After all these years...people still don't even bat an eye when they see a 45 year old married to a 25 year old...so your potential for being a great father is still solid!!! (Heck...even 50-35!) :-)

[TheLogicJunkie]

I like the way you think, SBM.

You know, I just realized that your icon is Robert De Niro. He and Chaz Palmentieri are two of my most favorite actors. I just saw him in this really well-done fantasy movie called "Stardust", and he was, as usual, amazing.

[toadenk]

wow, now i grew up in a subbern high school so i think i know where your comming from but still wow,

o hey i been drinking and fathers day is aroudn the corner so guess what i finnaly gonna buy your book from amazon

[TheLogicJunkie]

Father's Day?  You have a kid? I didn't know that.

[toadenk]

no but i have a dad

lol didn't know ppl buy themselfs father da's gifts

[toadenk]

i've shown my dad few of your rants he likes em

[TheLogicJunkie]

Thanks

[toadenk]

lol you may be older than me but i feel the same way about facebook,

thats why i try to have half of the ppl not from high school (i never talk to the half that was from high school anyways, i stoped accepting the high school ppl)

[TheLogicJunkie]

What's weird is that I get along with completely different people from high school than I did when I was actually in high school.

I realize now that I had to be in classes with all the uptight overachievers, but I actually wanted to just be a down-to-earth guy all along. I've come to realize that a lot of the kids I had to be in classes with, were apparently cold-blooded, narcissistic assholes who never let up with it.

[thehmmmm]

My experience in high school's quite different. The people I hung out with were uptight about grades, but we all recognized it as mostly jumping through hoops. We hated the crap we learned that had no significant influence in our lives. I think we had a firm grasp of how reality handled. Everyone who wasn't in the type-A classes (not to use a stereotype) was extremely laid-back about life to the point of apathy. Then there was the whole nerd criminalization and other crap.

[DickDude2007]

i found myself that I was sometimes looking for something not obvious through the internet for coupple of hours in a day because i was just willing to have something new and exiting which i have never seen before. But when i could not find anything obvious and just wasted time I began to worry about my future life like "how can I survive my life from now on..?"

[Seizure293]

Just take some university classes online. There's tons of them out there now- iTunes even has an entire section devoted to them. I usually just constantly have an audio class running in the background when I'm not doing anything else of importance (who says video games can't be educational?).

[TheLogicJunkie]

Did you know that MIT has classes online, for free? I was checking it out -- it's pretty cool.

[uglyengineer]

You're obviously an intelligent guy, I'm of course a little surprised that you're the artist type. But I have no reason to be, and its certainly acceptable. But let me pass along this little bit of unsolicited advice; take it as friendly, please. Lots of people can and do pursue artistic vocations. I would argue more people than not can pursue them. However, fewer people can pursue technical/skilled ones. If security is not important to you and you have no technical interests, then revel in art.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Oh, I see what you're getting at, now.

No, I gave up on art as a sole career over a decade ago. I saw the writing on the wall, that artists were disposable, exploited neurotics.

If I had it all to do over again, I'd do computer engineering and/or nanotechnology. In fact, I might apply to a program in that.

[wistfullyaware]

You have to take into consideration the actual demographic of YouTube...but some of the comments I see around here do baffle me. It's kind of an insight into my own generation, with is a lucid, sobering one. Saddening e=really, because I feel so disconnected from my own generation. It's dissapointing to see some people are devoid of a moral compass.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Do you have any thoughts on why this came to be with your generation?

[wistfullyaware]

Well, through my close observation all I can seem to attribute it to is the ethical decline of the previous one... I believe some people are simply a product of their environment, and are sometimes ignorant to the detriment of such. I think a lot of peoples priorities are disordered, as in what people ultimately value. I find that the majority of my generation largely values things devoid of intelligence, and or substance, rather than the antithesis of such.

[wistfullyaware]

It's not just you.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Whew.

[wistfullyaware]

I think, subconsciously they seek trivial pursuit to fill some sort of emotional void, or something (due to the lack of meaningful stimuli) Again, this is only my theory based on a slightly twisted perception (in my opinion). I dont feel very articulate, so I hope that made sense.

[TheLogicJunkie]

It did. I see the younger generation as almost stuck in a mental stage of preschool-toddler psychopathy, where there is no self-restraint whatsoever.

[shadowtailasdf]

I agree, I myself have become aware of this a couple of years ago. yet its hard to change because alot of my generation is oblivious to it. When I tell them, they brush me off.

[uglyengineer]

1) Its takes a while to find a career that you love.

2) American life as an assembly line, that's brilliant. All my peers have had children way too young, and its been a problem for them. Me, I took my time, found a career I love, and still don't have kids, and I'm doing quite well.

3) Bored with life, hmm... does this attitude bother you?

4) I love that new band "Led Zeppelin"*

(*I overheard this in a hospital lunchroom two years ago.)

[TheLogicJunkie]

1) Ain't that the truth. My favorite career paths so far have been counseling and child psychology, natural medicine, and acting -- particularly with an emphasis on directing and writing.

2) I am very ready to have kids. I think that's the major thing that's been missing in my life for way too long.

3) Yes, it bothers me.

4) My favorite LZ song is "All My Love".

[pyrogly16]

Why are you complaining about the foods we eat when you're sitting there drinking a Wendy's soda. Me and my sisters are laughing at you while we're at home making chicken, rice, salad and steamed vegetables. We also made desert. :)

[TheLogicJunkie]

Well, you do have a point. BUT, in a meager self-defense, it was unsweetened iced tea, made from water and tea.

...And, yes, it does have caffeine (which I don't care for), but at least I was avoiding all the corn syrup, phosphoric acid and all the rest of the garbage that comes in soft drinks.

If they offered unsweet green or white tea, I would have gotten that instead. Water is also good. Usually I eat from a health food store.

[Seizure293]

I retract my previous statement. True terror is realizing that a video entitled "elbow zit" gets 690,000 hits and yours rarely break 500.

Now I remember why I don't leave the house much.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Actually, I find that kind of refreshing, that I don't have the massive onslaught of viewership. I like having a smaller viewership of people that I feel much safer around.

[TheLogicJunkie]

...But I do take your point.

[Seizure293]

I just graduated from high school this month-- it wasn't worth the time. If I had any balls I would have just dropped out and holed myself up in a library, but the way the world is configured nowadays I'm probably more financially secure in going through the motions and getting a degree.

I agree with all the sweeping generalizations you made about my generation. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "true terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

[TheLogicJunkie]

*LOL* I've never heard that before.

You communicate very well for a high school graduate. You're probably more ready to hit the ground running in college than I was.

[shaybshay]

How one perceives life and society does not necessarily imply that this is the way life and society is. Generationism, groupthink and concepts that separate individuals i.e. race, politics, is not such a good thing which the cure for is relativism as well as getting out there in the real world challenging are own beliefs and values. The world is what you make of it; the world is not as obvious as you might think.

[muzalot]

I suppose if you really love something you also love doing it in all its repetitiveness.. Not many jobs are so lovable..

[TheLogicJunkie]

Probably true. Working with kids is one of the most rewarding jobs you can have -- if you're a female. If you're a male working with kids, you have to also be a female.

[5amGordon]

For weeks at a time, I will develop this mindset where nothing is a thrill, and I just kind of drift half-awake through the days. The best way I could put it would be that life seems to feel less like an experience, and more like procedure.

I think it might be related to what you are talking about.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yes... something like that.

[Simpateeko]

The perpetual dumbing down of the American public= state run schools.

The growing population of the lowest common denominator= welfare state.

Wait till they get their hands on the health-care system:)

[TheLogicJunkie]

If you had less nationalization of things, and more local control, you could let local regions and states decide more for themselves what they wanted to do, as far as all those things.

I'm not against the idea of people cooperating, but I am agains the idea of everybody having to support distant others whose ideology they have to endorse.

[Majinsirdi]

I pretty much agree with you. Careers are very much over rated. I compare it to an old fashion prick waving competition.

I guess it depends on your point of view for whaever you're looking to get out of life. If your "career" lines up with your happiness, then it's "prefect". Until you get bored of course... Un happy people tend to be stuck with careers they're not happy with.

[Donkeyhawk]

there's ANOTHER great quote, it goes something to the effect " you can't learn a nigger to argue" . .. which in modern terms means you cant teach an ignorant donkey by arguing with him, but anyway, yeah we fortunately areapproaching the End of Days so we won't have too much longer of this "Roman wilderness of pain" as our good buddy Jim Morrison once said. Imagine how college professors feel teaching the same class day by day year after year, they have to truly love their occupation.

[Donkeyhawk]

and I get down on myself after being so cynical and mean spirited about the monotony and repetition of life's cycles. and holy shit at 5:48 you say what I said before I even finished my second rant. Music, sports, the media, life in general. But our parents and mentors taught us, so unfortunately we have to do the same for the less fortunate and informed. When we see an idiot doing soemthing idiotic, it is our duty to INFORM them what they are doing wrong. I guess. Although in Huck Finn. . .

[Donkeyhawk]

I believe the quote you are looking for is . . . "There is nothing new under the sun" . . . which I believe came originally from a verse in the Bible.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Yeah, could be.

[ozjthomas]

I think it's everyone's fault. The kids aren't being given a good environment to learn in and given too many distractions(ipod, computers, etc) that lead to detriments in socializing. Add to that poor nutrition, urban sprawl, broken government, there's a lot of broken systems that keep getting more complicated and useless.

[ozjthomas]

As to your comment about finding a perfect career, I think you might just have higher standards and a better bullshit detector. Careers are overrated anyway, imo, and yeah, i get bored too of the everyday same old stuff, I think it has to do with finding something authentic, not the same old distractions.

[uglyengineer]

Certainly, if you don't care to play the American game of life you can opt-out of the career thing, unfortunately, being one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in and comprised of a culture that places value and emphasis on money makes this option risky. If you decide to embrace the money thing and don't want a career then your only option is to become one of these entrepreneurial types, and that takes a little experience and moxie, which is not always included your package...

[DantesObjective]

Have you seen the movie Ideiocracy?

[TheLogicJunkie]

No, but I've heard of it...

[laree2007]

yes

[WolfNinjaLevi]

I don't think it's the lack morality, a lack of empathy seems to be the problem with most people my age. It's like they all Id.