"You drive me craaaazy..." -Brittany Spears

You know what really grinds my gears?

Hypocrites.
Hypocrites grind my gears.

They talk for days about how they are so against something, be it a hard issue, or something smaller, and then they do the opposite.

I remember that when I was a child, my brother and I were fighting. My dad came out to the front lawn, as we were tearing the crap out of one another, and he threw my brother off on top of me, smack us both across the face and yelled, "WE DO NOT HIT!" Wow, dad.... good one.

My mother is a smoker, and has smoked since about she was 15. She drove the carpool of us kids home from school on the day we talked about smoking in our health/gym class. We began in on my mother about her smoker, as she puffed away, and she had one response. She took a drag from her Salem Lights 100's, turned to the back seat, wagged her fingers at us, cigarette between her first and middle fingers, and said, "Don't you kids smoke!" Wow, mom... good one.

In high school would've said, "I am a pro-life, anti-smoking, pro-second amendment, anti-gay marriage, pro-union, anti-pre-marital sex, pro-military, anti-underage drinking, Catholic Christian man, and that's how I intend to stay. I am correct, I will argue my points, I will show you where your argument is flawed, and I'll do it like a gentleman." Guess how many of those key, character-defining, issues I feel differently about, or even better, went against whilst I still argued that particular point.

Read my first blog. I hate blogging, which is evident by my weekly (or better) blogs.

In psychology, we talk about cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is essentially hypocrisy, if you ask me. If you feel a certain way, and if you're going to tell me I need to be a certain way, then why are you too good for it?

I understand that people change their minds. I understand that as new information and technology emerges, we can become more informed and more understanding, and change or minds with a more informed conscience. That's not what I'm talking about, so please don't comment and give me that as an example.

If you have a legitimate, interesting, or in any way valid response, please leave it in my comments section.

~~Thought for the Day~~

"The question is not how far. The question is do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far is as needed?"

~Il Duce, Boondock Saints



Until next time, stay awesome.

~B