For The Ages.

Alright, I'll say it: I can't stand free thinkers who can't think.

Think about all the people you've heard criticizing social norms, challenging authority, and pushing the boundaries of deep questioning. They talk incessantly, and have very strong opinions. But where is the thought? Where is the critical analysis of the problem at hand? In most cases, it's simply not there.

Most take the easy route--first-tier thinking. Some may believe that government funds are better spent exclusively on social welfare programs. These individuals almost always fail to realize the consequences of nursing the public at the expense of, well, the public. Can't they consider the impact of altered motivations in a self-feeding society? Or justify their opinions with the empowerment that people might gain out of this arrangement? I'm not neccessarily criticizing or defending Socialism, but I'd like to hear some decent argument on the subject before some other dumbshit splurts out, "we need more public housing," without a thought in his/her head.

What's worse are the constant academic failures of these liberatory individuals. I've had discussions with some people that can't comprehend why they are limited to run-of-the mill, plain vanilla colleges following Senior year. They yearn for a system that allows anyone who enrolls to be accepted, unless their performance is frighteningly bad. The fact is, they can't even reason out the constraints of the quantity of applicants, space, and hell, just for kicks, time for that matter. Oh let's make it space-time. Whatever you introduce to these misguided individuals will be taken in, sorted into one of only a few stereotypes in the hopper, and then put straight back out as something that sounds like an educated, calculated answer. But you're not really getting that. You're getting the borrowed thoughts of someone who was more willing to get off their lazy ass.

I have a message for my generation, and those that follow us: Learn to think! Really think! Invent, be creative, let your mind play! Education should be more than study! It should be a way to generate forum discussion, a vehicle towards higher planes of thinking! Don't fall victim to the monotony of the daily grind! Keep life fresh, and you'll be able to solve some of the world's deepest problems!

Yours too.