Open Blog 2

Mini-rant.

I do not feel optimistic about the way the world is going.

People are very stupid.  Backstory Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank house. He said Anne Frank was a good person and hope she would have been a fan. I'm kind of really not ok with someone's response to the Anne Frank house being I hope she would like my pop music. Really? Nothing about genocide or realizations about life. In response, his followers freaked out and instead of googling Anne Frank they just kind of insulted her.

Combine THIS^ mindless following of pop culture icons with an incessant, ravenous need to keep up with technology. Then if you don’t want to buy the newest technology too bad! You have to. Schools require that you write papers online to save trees or watch videos as supplemental instruction and after a few years the computer you bought is just a hunk of metal because everything is flying forward too fast. It reminds me of my favorite movie/book Jurassic Park. Ian Malcolm complains that the scientists didn’t gain their knowledge. They stood on the shoulders of giants.

I feel like I am continually torn between John Hammond and Ian Malcolm. Should we act in the light of discovery and act because we are there or should we refrain because we don’t know the repercussions? Most days I feel like Dr. Alan Grant. 40s years old and running to catch up with the world. UGH I’m in college. That was way too pretentious a rant.

Anyway, I don’t like the fact that we follow celebrities like mini-gods. It feels like ancient Greece or Rome with dozens of gods and you chose the gods you like based on location. I dunno, Feels similar to me. Also pretentious. End of rant.