Epic Rant

While I am generally a happy and optimistic person, a LOT of things just fill me to the core with rage. Mostly my generation, I mean seriously what the h*** is wrong with these people? No one has any type of values or moral fiber anymore. Being stupid and ignorant is what’s “in” now? And people call me a freak. I can’t stand how uneducated my generation is, in my English class last year, a girl actually thought a presidential term was two years as opposed to four. It astounds me that people have no idea how our government works or what’s really going on. Even the entertainment of today is getting progressively more stupid, like “Reality” TV, tell me exactly what’s real about watching cheap tramps pull each others hair out? And as a musician myself, I am beyond disgusted with today’s music scene. It’s all the same recycled garbage playing on the radio or MTV, there’s no art left in popular music, no original concepts, no thought provoking or even positive lyrics. While I am making a generalization and there are few artists doing something original or of artistic value, the majority of what is popular now is either generic power pop, whiny “I hate everything” screaming bands or something I shudder to identify as Rap music. A majority of these “artists” do the same things musically and offer no positive message of any sort, and the “Rap” of today has absolutely no intellectual value, while there have always been Rap songs idolizing violence or objectifying women a lot of Old School Rap had many calls for social change. The majority of youth of today have such amazing opportunities at their feet but choose to be lazy, uneducated and expect the world to be handed to them on a silver God d***** platter. Another thing I can’t stand is ignorance, for example the fact that homosexuality is such a taboo subject among most of our society. It’s beyond ridiculous that two people who are committed to one another and love each other enough to want to be married are denied that right because they are of the same sex, who the hell are we to judge? Our country’s divorce rate is at what? Sixty percent now? That means people who get married and stay together are in the freaking minority! Yet conservatives, religious fanatics, and ignorant hate mongers decide that these people don’t deserve the same rights as “normal” people because they’re perceived as different. Why should it matter to them if same sex couples were to get married? No one’s forcing them to be a homosexual, and don’t give me that “sanctity of marriage” crap, the sanctity of marriage went out the flipping window when you could get married in Las Vegas by a priest in a man-thong. I could continue ranting on things of this nature for pages and pages, but I would like to avoid offending anyone any further than I probably already have, and this is a creative writing class not a debate club forum.