Douches and Idiots: AKA Why is it "cool" to be an idiot?

[Lankan Lion]

i am sick and tired of this constant persecution and discrimination

I may be an idiot douchebag but goddamnit i cry and bleed too

Lankan Lion Reviewed by Lankan Lion on 10-12-2008. Douches and Idiots: AKA Why is it "cool" to be an idiot? This is sort of a rant that I had to get off my chest. It seems to me the world is full of douches and idiots. Why do people (particulalry younger people) think it's funny and cool to be uninformed and uneducated? I love college, it's going well for me but I have stayed to myself. The reason why is because 99% of the population are uninformed hipsters. I can not stand this. All they want to do is get drunk, party, hook up and act like hoolagans and thugs. Example: So I'm in my 4th Rating: 5

[zihowie]

Well, it makes you look a helluva lot more educated and coherent right? When I read the title I immediately thought of self promoters, which ties into the douche idiot part. People will do anything to one up you and all you can do is laugh inside, knowing at the end of the day you do a supposedly harmful drug and you still have tons more sense than people paying for an education, who dont want to be educated.

[mattisnotonfire]

It's just that I'm so glad my parents raised me to read, watch the news and be involved with things that are educational.

I wish more people were raised with those priorities.

With all due respect, you seem to make a lot of generalisations; how people are raised has, believe it or not, very little impact on the person that they become.

I was brought up on a massive council estate in an awful neighbourhood. The schools were shockingly bad and my dad left when I was young. My mum, not being very academic herself, never really bothered getting involved with my school life.

Consequently, because I was lead by example, being young, I did badly in primary and high school.

It was only in the past few years that I realised that whilst being ignorant is all well and good, (ignorance is bliss etc!) you're only pulling the wool over your own eyes. Which is the equivilent of closing your eyes because you dislike what you are seeing right in front of you.

So I guess my point is that parents only really have an impact on you when you are young and can only live by set examples.

Some of the worlds greatest entrepreneurs left school with nothing...:thumbsup:

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

Forget politics! It is just too empty, sort of like baggy clothes and fancy possessions. You seek something more wholesome. Maybe a spiritual relationship? If you ask me the majority population is infatuated with crap that no one needs.

Exactly.


what we need is an ogranization of true reality, an organization that provides people with work, but not for money, work for the sake of whatever the work provides.

a group of people who are self sufficent and extending a helping hand to the rest of the communities in their area free of charge, providing people with the means to work for the resources they need!


Mostly these kinds of things are called communes, but truly, they are sovereign communities.

[Trip06]

forsure

[thcbongman]

I think people should be free to do what they want and be who they want, as long as they respect and not harm others.

[homestar]

Forget politics! It is just too empty, sort of like baggy clothes and fancy possessions. You seek something more wholesome. Maybe a spiritual relationship? If you ask me the majority population is infatuated with crap that no one needs.

Sadly if you live in this nation you have to play the game, so if you're forced to you might as well be as educated about the system as possible! The other alternative, of course, is to start a cannabis.com commune somewhere :rastasmoke::hippy:

[seattlesmoke247]

I am wondering the same thing rebgirl.. :stoned:

[Bombadil]

Aye, the younger general public seems to be mostly made up of ignorant individuals who like to ride around on rims that cost more than the car they put them on. I'm surprised every time I hear someone saying something positive about Obama even though his campaign has taken money from Russia, North Korea, and even Al-Qaeda. People just don't seem to take the initiative to find out anything that is going on in the world today.

[Bombadil]

Bombadil, people are more concerned with things like how they're going to pay for their gas this month. When a presidential candidate gets on the television and says he's going to do something about it, then what else do they need to hear? They don't care how a candidate lowers taxes or prices at the pump. They care only that it gets done.

I agree, maybe I jumped the gun on that one. People here the word "change", and I agree we do need change, our conservative government has always taken forever to change anything. I just think people should think beyond tomorrow. I mean, what happens if we let someone who is supported by terrorist organizations assume the most powerful position in the world? (and yes, the U.S. President is the most powerful person in the world, BBC did a special about what the next U.S. President should know about science, and they stated a lot of the ways he is the most powerful person. I think it was call Horizon: Science for the Next President, or something similar.) I don't really want to find out.