Listen, don't just hear...

If only people would pay attention. When you listen to a celebrity talking head don't just nod your head in time to the damn lyrics. Pay attention to what they are actually saying. And if you don't agree with it, don't buy it.

 

I won't buy a Green Day album, for example. The ignorant bastards comment on things they haven't bothered to study, from a shallow and self-centered, not to mention self-indulgent perspective. And we, the American people, for some reason promote that shallow and self-centered point of view even in people we disagree with. Lots of people don't agree that America is the root of all evil, but they don't bother to bestir themselves enough to resist the meme even in small ways that would not inconvenience themselves- I believe it's because they're nodding their heads in time and not thinking at all.