A little disappointed.

So here I am, a self-proclaimed writer, and I haven't written anything!

I guess that's one of my biggest flaws. Building wonderful story ideas up in my head but then never delivering them. So I'm going to write down my opinions at least on a more regular basis.

One of my biggest peeves as of late is the amount of laziness and apathy I've noticed in society. I work at a movie rental store and I see from time to time a lot trends that annoy me to know end. Most regularly the question "Is this a good movie?" comes at me. It's one thing to read the back of the cover and have questions about the movie's content, but when people see a flashy cover and don't even take the time to figure out if they personally will enjoy something, well it's rather appalling.

People lost the ability to think for themselves a long time ago it seems. Compare a book to the what seems like limitless amount of television programming. Some people would argue that TV s infinite with hundreds of channels available at all hour of the day. The essential issue that people miss is that watching TV requires people to tune into the broadcast companies. Even with the exception of TiVo it is still up to these companies about what programs actually become developed. If you had to pick a favorite color, but someone said you could only pick between red and blue isn't really a choice? Say your favorite color was green? Then what?

That's the beauty and danger of books. They truly are limitless. However at the same time, it becomes tricky to discover your own tastes. Let's face it, mostly people read the bestsellers and in all fairness to those authors, it's well deserved. Harry Potter was worth reading because it was a good story. But that doesn't define eclectic tastes. If someone only reads harry potter and nothing else, have they really discovered their own taste?

It just goes to show you that we mask our own conformity to being spoon fed directions and interests by providing a larger envelope of decisions that are predetermined. Does that mean we are truly free?

I once heard a quote. Ignorance is bliss... when you don't know you're being ignorant.