If one thinks about what one knows or what one feels, one should prob­a­bly come to an under­stand­ing of why one feels that way. I mean, aside from the pos­si­ble implant­i­ng of tastes, or things that you like because of influ­ences beyond your abil­i­ty to remem­ber.

An exam­ple: if one enjoys lis­ten­ing to met­al, then there should be a real­iza­tion that it might be because of the way heavy gui­tar riffs and scream­ing have a way of help­ing one deal with ones shit­ty, shit­ty life. And if ones life improves, one may not need that genre of music any­more. Of course, one may still enjoy it for what­ev­er rea­son.

Another case. If one is hit by a car, with life-threat­en­ing injuries, I’m sure that one would be less than thrilled to cross the street the day one gets out of the hos­pi­tal, let alone dri­ve home.

The two cas­es are dif­fer­ent inso­faras the lat­ter can be a life-alter­ing expe­ri­ence, where­as the for­mer is not.

And yet peo­ple, with­out hav­ing life-alter­ing expe­ri­ences, feel and act with­out ques­tion­ing why they are feel­ing or act­ing in a cer­tain way.

Pure fuck­ing sequaci­ty

I can nev­er under­stand how so many peo­ple can just act with­out think­ing, with­out under­stand­ing things, with­out suf­fi­cient knowl­edge of the sit­u­a­tion.

I’m sure I could make a poster of a Chinese man, exag­ger­at­ing all the stereo­typ­i­cal parts of his body, as a piece of art, a com­ment in itself of how per­verse peo­ple think. Would peo­ple ques­tion why I made it the way I did? Would peo­ple try and under­stand why I made the poster in the first place, before deem­ing me racist, and demand­ing that I destroy it? The answer, sad­ly, would be no. They would only feel that because it por­trays a Chinese per­son in a stereo­typ­i­cal man­ner, it is wrong. They would nev­er even ques­tion why it is wrong.

Perhaps the gov­ern­ment is just too good in doing what they do. Sure, they’ve done a good job at elim­i­nat­ing racism, but at the same time, they’ve cre­at­ed anti-racism racism. Now, hir­ing minori­ties is a neces­si­ty, even if the minor­i­ty hap­pens to not be as good at the job as some­one else.

But who can blame them? They’re just try­ing to con­trol mass­es of idiots, who can’t think for them­selves.

I wish peo­ple would actu­al­ly think, before they made a deci­sion, before they act­ed. If one does­n’t like some­one, one should ques­tion the rea­son. Don’t just act on it. One may real­ize that one was wrong in the end. If one thinks that some­one is imma­ture, one should think about it. Perhaps even look at it from a dif­fer­ent view. If one does­n’t like some­thing because of an inci­dent in the past, one should look at it in the new con­text of the present. Not just act­ing on what one has been told, or what one has felt for so long.

Pavlov should have used humans. He would­n’t even need­ed to have trained them.

God, peo­ple piss me off.