The Age of Agelessness
Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted in my blog here, and it’s mainly because of The Wayward Gamer, but some things have been stirring in my mind and I have to get them out there somehow. The main thing I’ve been thinking lately is how people stopped aging (psychologically) at around 12 – 15. Yep, we live in an age where people respond to complex issues with comments like: “U just stuped,” and “Your gay!” Now, I won’t go into the fact that American’s have lost the ability to translate the English language into any sort of written form, I’ll just talk about the issue at hand.
As an example, I was dealing Pai Gow Poker to a girl (obviously around 19-20) who said she wasn’t a gambler. I disagreed since she was, indeed gambling. She said she didn’t have a problem and I retorted that the very definition of a gambler is “one who gambles.” Now, I know that this isn’t the best definition, but the word gambler is a form of the word gamble, and this girl knew what the word gamble meant in the first place. The point when I realized I was arguing with an idiot was when she came back with, “You can’t use the word in it’s definition” (or something like that). Now granted, she wasn’t wrong, but the very fact that the best she could come back with was simple semantics was telling. She probably uses texting verbiage in normal speech like, “O.M.G!” and other such nonesense. I promptly dropped the discussion, seeing that actual logic would get nowhere with this girl.
The saddest part of this story was that the girl was the smartest person in her age group I’ve talked to in a while (that wasn’t an annoying recluse who loved elf women more than real ones). After all of this, I came across a new story today about how Emma Watson said something bad about Twilight (OMG!!!!!!) and the first thing the anchor said about it was that Emma Watson was the only person in the world who didn’t like Twilight. I beg to differ, as I generally try to keep from vomiting while forced to watch such trite, vapid, self-serving, self-loathing garbage. I hate every character except one (Team Jabob, woot!). Anyway, Emma said the movie was too sexy and I could probably agree that it’s too sexy for the 12-16 year old girl demographic. What I thought was funny was that this anchor said Emma was hypocritical because she had an on-screen kiss in the latest Harry Potter movie. It’s kind of hard to draw that comparison since Twilight is basically all about unrequited sexual advances and the tension that that creates, and let’s also not forget about Jacob’s imprinting of an infant child he plans to copulate with in the future (Team J… Damn it! Now I hate all the characters).
So, if we have arguments can’t we learn how to come from a position with some sort of foundation, where points can be calculated, verified, and compared? If we could just do that, there would be a lot less retarded random internet comments like “maine she sounds great this could possibly the next #1 man str8 up she need to let wayne hop on this is hott.” That gem was posted on this YouTube video.
- Rich
