I remember who the idiot I was talking about was, thanks to Prof. Theoharis. Aristotle was the dude who said that humans have to live together and create a society in order to survive efficiently. When people work together, it's easier to create a better environment for the collective, but it's harder to cater to the minorities. So majority overrules, and too bad for the rest of em. I don't mean to sound like a sore loser, but to hell with that. People can do what they freakin' want to. If the loner wants to be alone, leave the fellow alone. If the loner isn't alone by choice, tough, the dude's got make what he wants happen.

It's not necessarily always every man for himself. But it's not every man for every other person who falls into the same particular category. Why should we constantly have to 'represent our people'? That's just creating a fake stereotype. You do what you want. If a bunch of brown people happen to have the same habits, so be it. But why should one try to do something for the purpose of creating a reflection about others. Fake statistics are what bring about stereotypes in the first place. And the people who were whining about representing each other in the first place end up being the same people who whine about stereotypes. Don't blame the judges. We don't live to represent others that we have traits in common with. That just creates a mass. That's the mob theory. When people join together based on what they have in common, they are forced to assimilate what they don't have in common into the most common norm as well.

That's bullshit.


You're given an identity. And that's your responsibility. What you do with your facilities is what you represent.



... Crap, I have a journalism paper to write.

Two Books... And Then Some.

10:30 at night, and I'm the typical jackfruit who leaves all this reading to the last day I have to read it all, because I have to know all this for class the next day. Frankly, I prefer this system over the bullshit nightly homeworks from high school. No teacher ever stuck to the rubric. Ever. It was usually based on 'intuition' on how much the kid 'should' deserve. Pompous, righteous, 'I-deserve-better-than-this' jerks. Not that there weren't the few good ones, but most of them just suck as teachers and as people. Pick one. Friend or educator. Can't be both in this world, and especially not in the ghetto neighborhood I'm in.

Anyway, I finished a few awesome books recently. The first took me a few months, because I paid extreme attention to every word. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Great book. Great philosophy, though I do think it is way more towards the idealistic end of the spectrum. Not the altruist 'idealism' that is more popular and universally accepted, but I really don't think people can handle or live up to that kind of criticism, meaning their own. Some famous idiot once said, I forgot who exactly, that it is in human nature to want and need the support and communication of and with others. I call bullshit. I call total bullshit. It's just easier to live on a community support system. This is why today's generation, including myself, is so fucking lazy. LAZYYYYYYY. Oh my god, it's not that they 'can't' or they 'don't feel up to' looking for the TV remote. They are LAZY! I mean, so am I, don't get me wrong. I love my technology, but if I'm hungry, I'll make my own food. If I'm reading, and I need help understanding a word, I'll look it up. And then some other fuckwit up and says 'obesity is contagious.' Oh my god. What!? NO. People are just too lazy to think for themselves, so when they see their friend getting fat, they can't help but join in on the conga line to the fast food restaurant. Please, don't bullshit yourselves. You don't get fat because some one else is fat. I'm allowed to say that! I'm not some toothpick twat. I'm overweight, not obese, but visibly overweight. So stop moaning and groaning lazy, careless fucks.

I started this entry in hopes of talking about some books I read, but it turned into a rant, because I'm very tired, and I haven't been able to vent properly. People either overreact or don't react at all when I talk about this shit, so I'll leave it to whoever has the balls to actually make the effort.

Anyway... Ayn Rand is an admirable women for making the statements she's made over her lifetime, and I support her, but I won't adhere to or abide by her words. It's possible I don't have the balls for it, but it could also be that I do, and just not the temperament for it. I get pissed easily. I just don't show it as easily. Not nearly as easily. And if I were to actually live by my own rules and do exactly whatever the fuck I want for my own sake... I just don't think I have the balls nor the temper for it. I'll just combust eventually.

The other book I recently finished: "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" originally written in German by Patrick Suskind, and translated into English by John E. Woods. Great book. Not nearly as well written as The Fountainhead. They're definitely two different levels of reading. Perfume is a much easier and quicker read, and more entertaining than thought-inspiring, as The Fountainhead wasn't. It was definitely interesting. I saw the movie adaptation this summer, and immediately got the book the same day. Movie was fucking awesome. I loved it. Mind-boggling, some scenes are. The Fountainhead is way more imaginative and, as I said earlier, thought-inspiring, which is why it took me so much longer to read. Really inspires one to be an asshole, you know? Very refreshing. The Perfume encourages individuality, to a degree, but also to keep a sense of altruism in tact, for the sake of society. But hey, it's a great read. Germans can be so gory. Talk about visionary. Woot.

Okay, so I guess this is where the conclusion would go. But this isn't an essay. And I have a lot of reading to get done. I hope the vent was helpful, both for you and I. First vent on this blog and everything, too. Knowing me, if I do actually blog as often as I proposed to initially, there might be a lot more of these. But also, as is my trend, my saying as such might have actually decreased the chances of that actually happening.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves.