"Fashion is something so ugly it has to be changed every fifteen minutes" - Senser, "What's going on?" from the album "Stacked Up" Take your microwave meal off the shelf. Browse the myriad clones of videos, computer games, tv programmes on offer. Make a choice based on popularity. What an age of convenience! You don't even have to think anymore. You're told what to eat, what to watch, what to wear, what to say, how to act. Keep your prefabricated fucking existance, because I'm living the hard way. I don't wear certain clothes 'because they're cool', or 'because I listen to this music', or 'because I fit into [x] category'. I wear certain clothes because I damned well feel like it. I wear what I want to wear, when I want to. Sure, I've no doubt that many of you will look at what I wear and think I look like the biggest dufus you've ever seen, but surprise surprise, I don't actually give a damn. I don't watch certain movies, read certain books, play certain games 'because [x] reviewer said I should.' I don't avoid them for this reason either. I watch certain movies, read certain books, play certain games because I think I may enjoy partaking in such activity. A film about retro-video game styling will probably bore the crap out of most people, but I would quite enjoy it. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Unbreakable are all movies that got wonderful reviews, and people love them, but I don't like them. Am I 'wrong' and they 'right'? no. Are they 'wrong' and I 'right'? No. Why? Because taste is entirely fucking subjective. Modern art I find intolerable, mainly because it looks like it's been knocked up in five seconds flat.I mean, I don't find 5 lines of basmati rice all that great. But that's just me. Some people enjoy the escapism modern art affords them, and that's cool. But then there's fucking idiots who will think anything's great if it's by [insert famous artist here], even if they thought a similar picture by [insert unknown artist here] was crap. Fact is, they're not appreciating the art, they're blindly following fashion. How many people own a Playstation 2? Flipping loads. How many of those people bought the console because there was a particular game they wanted to play, or they had made a balanced choice based on experience of other systems available at time of purchase? Considerably less. I personally cannot stand the Playstation 2, as it epitomises everything that is wrong with the videogame industry at the moment - It's a sequel, and sequels are tired rehashes riding on the sucess of their forbears. It relies on media hype to sell, rather than actual quality of the hardware/software (how many of you know that the PS2 can't actually outperform a Sega Dreamcast by any significant margin?). It's 'trendy', yay, no-brain idiots buy it, possibly giving rise to the final and most hateful thing. There is no damned originality in the fucking thing whatsoever. Still, if people want to waste their money on a shoddy piece of hardware, that's their problem. See, the thing is, people are too damned lazy to do anything anymore. They never prepare their own meals, what's the point when you can just nuke your pre-made lasagne for 3 minutes? Desperate to fit in, people wear what fashion dictates. People watch what the magazines tell them to watch. Why? I mean, is it really that fucking difficult to make your own decisions? How many of you are reading this from Internet Explorer running on some variation of Microsoft's fuck up of an operating system, Windows? I'll wager most, if not every single one of you. Why? "Oh, Windows is easy to use, and Linux is too hard to use, and nothing works in Linux..." Are you speaking from experience? I highly fucking doubt it. There is a fucking plethora (look it up in a fucking dictionary if you can be bothered) of software available for Linux, much of it free. It doesn't crash all the damned time either. Sure, it may take a week or so to learn the functionality of the system, but once you've done that, I guarantee you'll get stuff done at a blistering speed. Don't be lazy. Take the time to try it out, instead of believing everything you read. Oh, how easy life must be if you're trendy. The average human uses 10% if their brain power. Is that because we haven't evolved to a point where we're able to use the rest, or is it because we've become so goddamned decadent that we simply can't be bothered anymore. Think about what I've said today, but don't believe it. Judge for yourself. Use that fucking big organ inside your head to do what it was meant for. Then come back and tell me what you think.