apathy...

I'd have to say that my biggest, hugest, most gi-mongous pet peeve right at the moment is apathy. I heard on NPR this morning that voter turnout is expected to be 40% or some sad number like that. Never mind the people who can't be bothered to register to vote. Sure, citizens of this state can hardly read because someone else didn't vote or didn't register. Never mind that we're creating a world for our younger siblings and our children, and our grandchildren (provided we don't blow it all up by then). Never mind that since people in California haven't learned to THINK for themselves, we ended up with an idiot for a governor. Never mind that the whole country is made out of SHEEP, and ended up with a brain dead goat leading us off into the fire of oily oblivion....

And another thing... a corollary to the apathetic phenomenon - people who talk out their rectum without having any CLUE what they're talking about. Just yesterday I was watching the appendices to LOTR, and what does my companion of the moment say - I just love watching appendages. I was amazed. He actually meant it. Yeah, let's just watch those appendages, and never mind the big words like vocabulary, or dictionary, or the ability to *&##$ READ. And speaking on subjects that one obviously has no knowledge of? And to a person who actually (horror of horrors) reads? Dear GOD, I weep for the future, if this is what is considered ACHIEVEMENT. Sure, I can't spell for beans, nor can I type, and I can't add half the time, but I don't pretend I can just to impress people....

damn it. too much caffeine and righteous fervor.

FEH!