18-Aug-2007

For a couple years or more I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out where a certain scene was from… All I could remember was a very “somber” (you’ll understand why thats in quotes in a second) moment when a computer announces that a ships auto destruct was activated and the voice was echoing through the ship. For a while I thought it was from Star Trek: First Contact… no go… so I thought it might have been a TNG or Voyager episode… no joy… Turns out… it was a scene from Space Balls. That is almost depressing… and very disappointing.

I am going to rant about people (that is to say teenagers and twenty-somethings) for a minute. The average person (in my unqualified and probably inexperienced opinion) has a couple qualities that they exhibit to the outside world (of course if you ask them they’ll deny and their friends will have “no idea” what you are talking about):
1.) Conceit: I have no idea how so many people actually believe that the sun shines out their own sphincters. If what they thought was true… well we could save a lot on electricity for lighting…
2.) Woefulness: Apparently most people have problems worse than everyone else. And even for the people that realize that their problems aren’t on the epic playing field, their problems are still somehow catastrophic, unmanageable, and completely depressing to the point that no one can help or understand.

I realize I am no treat. I tend to be blunt (sometimes verging rude), arrogant (although I think that is deserved), and a bit reserved… but at least I realize that the other 6.6 billion people exist (and could give a damn about me) and I own my own problems without trying to guilt out or otherwise siphon off sympathy from every living thing around me.