Although I am not THAT misanthropic, I find that people annoy me more than amaze me. I have become much less tolerant of human tendencies in my old age. Currently, my patience has really worn thin as I observe that our prosperity, the youth of our nation, are holding themselves to standards of utter stupidity and superficiality. While shopping with my cousins, we inevitably found ourselves in Hollister. Here, we find cheap, ugly clothing inspired by the California fantasy lifestyle of slackerdom, excess, and lack of future vision. The inspirations are the surfer dudes and the bikini chicks on the beaches of SoCal. The loud, thumping, horrible pop music violates our cochlea. Essentially, over-indulged white kids are the target population. Of course, a couple of brown kids, like my cousins and me, have to make our appearance, to encourage diversity. There is this club-like atmosphere, with the crowded interior, lack of appropriate clothing, and the atrocity that is Panic at the Disco reverberating through my ears and brain, like nails on a chalkboard. I felt as though a few years had been lost from my life when we could finally leave the store.
Reverend Jeremaiah Wright, the controversial spiritual advisor of hopefully future President Barack Obama, has officially taken the Elliot Spitzer position of this week's Hot Topic. Bill O'Reilly also has validated his ability to beat a topic like a dead horse in his little show this evening. He interviewed his quota of token African American religious figures and beraded them as usual. However, I still don't really see the big deal. Reverend Wright just verbalizes what people really think. O'Reilly commented that Caucasian people don't outwardly express how they would like to cause physical harm and death to various individuals of ethnic minorities, in spite of harboring those feelings. Mr. O'Reilly forgets that Caucasians verbally threatening everyone else just wear white hoods and burn crosses.
