Hi, How are you?

We really do live in a messed up world. And its all our fault.

I'm as guilty of it as much as anyone else, but we just consume as much as possible. By consumption I'm not talking only literally, as in resources we consume at idiotic levels but in all senses of consume. We try to grasp everything because we have a magical thing called Wikipedia, and Google. Don't get me wrong, these are both very good ways to find information about certain things and they make life much easier, but in a proverbial sense we think we're god. I'm not trying to say we're all megalomaniacs or anything, I just mean we're put into a mindset where everything we could ever want to know is at our fingertips. And although it is mostly true there is a big difference from knowing something and understanding something.

I was talking to someone and in the conversation I mentioned Daniel Johnston, and he had no idea who the man was. First instinct, Google and Wikipedia. So further along in the conversation it gets brought up again, and what, out of the entire page of information on Daniel Johnston, does he take as credible information about Daniels character, achievments and existance. Oh well he is a manic depressant.

And that's all he is? This little mental illness is now all this man is summed up as? If one person thinks this than there must be more. His music means nothing? His struggle even less? He's just a depressed person hitting away at a piano. Good to know.

Simple stuff like this blows my mind, how can you be so ignorant as to try and judge a person on something so irrelevant. It just opens your eyes to closed minds.

That's my rant really, I'm tired of people being so closed minded about everything and judging a character completely on mundane facts. But I guess we're all guilty in our own way.