CocoSims wrote:
It seems that most people these days (at least in my peer group) are not too interested in using their brains when they have spare time. Too often they're preoccupied with getting blacked out at the bar or what happened last night on that Kardashian show. Is it so outrageous that I'd rather read The Communist Manifesto than US Weekly? That I prefer a nature documentary over Celebrity Big Brother? People continually make me feel like an outcast for sitting at home and reading. I'm often confronted with, "Ha! I don't recall the last time I actually read a book. Probably sometime in elementary school... How boring!" as if they're PROUD of such a thing. Completely mind-boggling.
Apologies for my quadruple post before. My browser seems to have as many issues as I do
BTW, I'm diagnosed Bipolar, ADHD (Inattentive), Social Anxiety, self-diagnosed Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
My mother (who is on the same wavelength as I am when it comes to our favourite subjects) says that I shouldn't judge people for having different interests and pasttimes from mine, but I can't help but underscore what you posted here.
I was at my cousin's birthday party 2 weeks ago, and most of the guests (half of them relatives of mine) were simply unable to carry a conversation on topics like science, art, history, politics... preferring to chit-chat and gossip about so-and-so... Folks who watch Jersey Shore and Geordie Shore, and who cry out in disgust when they have to listen to Liszt or Chopin for more than 2 minutes. I never realised it before, as I was always pretty much locked up in my own crowd of nerds back in school, but I felt like Superman visiting Bizarroworld when I was at that party. None of the rules and standards I was used to applied anymore. What was right was wrong and vice versa.
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