Cults? Inventions? SILENCE!

I decided for the first time in... ever... to write my ideas down as they popped up into my head throughout the day and it was a good idea, despite the fact my state of mind is well... lacking. Working + School + Homework = TIRED! Blah, that's why my posts have been kinda lacking as of late but I'll try to get them back up to the standard I initially set. Anyways the first idea I'll start off with, is that, have you ever noticed how cult-like people are? It's actually kinda creepy. I'm not saying people gather in the middle of the night, wearing deer antlers, drinking the blood of the innocent, but rather in a more pop-cultural sense. Here's an example: As I was sitting in math today, our teacher was asking us what our favorite burrito from Chipotle was out of two choices, and he came to this one girl who responded with "I've never had Chipotle" and honestly, you'd think she'd just made a joke about the recent (and tragic) Virginia Tech shootings. About a thousands "WHAT?!"'s rang out, one after another after that statement. I got the impression she was gonna be abducted during the night by the secret police, in a rather Orwellian fashion (see: 1984 by George Orwell [one of my favorite books ever]) And I just thought it was funny how we as humans settle into these trends where we conform so much to one thing that we forget what it's like to not have experienced those things we have conformed to, other examples are hearing songs that are popular, seeing shows on TV, etc etc, but of all the organizations who would have a secret police, it'd totally be Chipotle. (On a side note: I have never been, or ate at, a Chipotle, and never will) Which brings us to my next idea plucked from the tree which sprouts these ludicrous ideas daily. Humans are really really really really ridiculous. Every night on the news we hear how America is getting fatter and fatter, and about all these fad diets, but, did they ever stop to think that every single day we get something to do all the manual work for us? We have self-activating wind-shield wipers, self-working vacuums, Electric toothbrushes, electric flossers, automatic paper towel dispenses, automatic soap dispensers, automatic sinks, lights that go on when you walk into a room, cars that park themselves, GPS systems that have long since replaced maps of yore. We have seatbelts that adjust themselves, steering wheels that go back to the position we like, why can't they just stay there? We have treadmills so we don't have to witness the horrors of the good old outdoors, while people drive off to tanning salons to avoid the outdoors further. And as addicted as I am to the computer and all its splendor I can't help but wish I grew up in the 50's when people were outside more, and more carefree. These are the only automatic things I can think of off the top of my head, but I assure you, there are ridiculous ones out there. Another thing we as humans (mostly Americans) have are completely unnecessary amenities. Things like Scented toilet paper, flavored perfume, flavored condoms, cars whose manufacturers claim can drive fine in all weather, yet i see them going just as slow as everyone else on those first few days of snow fall, we have so many different flavors of toothpaste you'd swear you entered a gourmet restaurant, everything is wireless so humans will never have to be restricted by anything. I saw earmuffs the other day that you hook your iPod up to so you can listen to music and stay warm at the same time in the harshness of winter. Am I the only one who finds it the least bit ridiculous? We live in an "i" world, and it won't be before long that "i" infests everything and we live on planet iEarth. iDon't know about you but all this is kind of unnerving, as I was saying to my friend Shane yesterday in Physics, humans are either going to screw Earth over big time, to the point where we descend back into the Dark Ages, OR, we will eliminate the use of Fossil fuels and have huge technological breakthroughs that will propel us into another golden age of man. I hope that I am around to see the latter, and not the former.

And my last bit of writing I'll do for the night (which won't be nearly as big as it deserves) will be about the Day of Silence, which took place today. Gay rights is something I take very very very seriously, and I hope more and more each day that some day gays and straights and bi's will all be able to get along and religion won't be the majority leader in Congress preventing them from getting married. If you were silent today then I applaud you, I was going to partake but couldn't attend the mandatory meetings. I think this is an issue that needs to be taken seriously by all. That is all I'm going to say though before I go on a tirade of why I hate most of those on Capitol Hill.

That's my rantings for the day. Hope you all enjoyed!