h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So how did a computer-tinkering musician come to the name "The Butcher"? Does it refer to your musical style, or to the quality of your "real-job" work? Or do you enjoy slaughtering animals in your spare time.

I agree with your sense of hopelessness for the human race. I just don't get it anymore. You know, when I was a kid (and maybe when you were a kid, too) I used to think of grown-ups as almost a different race than I. Grown-ups were the ones who actually did the things in the world that needed to be done. They were the ones who raised us, and who taught us, and who drove us to school. Grown-ups were the ones who always had the answer. I never really thought of myself as the precursor to a grown-up.

I was in high school before I realized that nobody really knows what's going on. I started to notice the flaws in some of my grown-up teachers, and it really shocked me. Until that point, I figured they all had it together, that they were all happy in their jobs, etc. And my mother was even a teacher!!!

And then four years of college left me with a worse feeling. I would walk through campus and look around and listen, and you know what I saw, what I heard? Idiots. They're all idiots. Ignoramuses.

It made me feel sorry for the human race, but it also made me a little more hopeful about my own future. If the world is full of so many idiots (assuming that the people in my college represented a cross-section of the population at large), then there should be a pretty cool place for a non-idiot semi-intelligent thoughtful and logical person like myself.

Which makes this gray boring cubicle I'm stuck in seem all the more depressing.

Anyway, thanks for reading and responding to my post about the upcoming revolution.

Not animals.

I had my dad telling me from a pretty young age that most stuff out there is junk. That applies to machines, books, and people.

Like you, as I got older, I saw that this is essentially true. 90% of everything is crap.

I had manual labor jobs while I was in college, and I found that frequently, college students and professors know less about the way the world works than your average laborer (who makes next to nothing and has 40% taken away in either payroll or sin taxes, and is appropriately upset about this).

There is great need for independent thinkers. But don't expect to be popular. Most people can't stomach the truth.

ahh, the truth shall set you free. the hell with popularity. now i gotta find out what revolution yer talkin' bout...

No revolution. My ideas aren't that important, and they aren't new. But being the guy who tried to play Roland Kirk during poker games in college wasn't helping my social life. But it did get people exposed to something different.

I just get irritated with folks whose minds are incapable of making a decision without a group to back them up. For example, I'd really like to see what would happen in this country if we took the "Republican" and "Democrat" labels off the candidate's names on voting day. I think all of a sudden there would be a lot more viable third-party candidates. But of course the big groups know this, and they don't want to lose that control...

...so is it revolutionary of me to think that? Nah! But I'd love to see Daschle get his.

ah, my bad - the revolution thing was from andyman-- old age settin in fast!

Tell me about it. The grey hairs are starting.