I haven't written in here for a long, long time... And that's something to be expected, considering that I now have another two places to write, a job and my personal life (games, going out, etc.) to keep me busy. So time is starting to seem like a luxury. And yet, there are days when I think that I really wish time would go by faster, since there are always things that I'm looking forward to.
A lot of things have happened since I wrote here last... I went to Italy, fulfilled one of my many dreams to go to a Distant Worlds opera concert (spoiler alert: it was incredible!), I started work again, yet another E3 has come and gone, I've played a whole bunch of games (Horizon, NieR, Persona, now getting ready for the new Uncharted with a female protagonist), so yeah... it's been a roller-coaster!
However, what really drove me to write back on my own blog was the need to talk about the current state of society. There comes a point when too much of one thing can be enough and there's absolutely no reason to have to tolerate or put up with it anymore. When a certain type of behavior becomes the norm, then unfortunately there's no getting away from it and sooner or later you end up being the odd one out.
More specifically into the topic, social media has existed for a good while now. It first began with chat rooms like iIRC, messenger, and so on. Then Facebook came into the picture, bringing with it its "statuses", that allowed all your friends (or even a wider audience) to see what the user was up to, or what they were thinking or "feeling". Then other sites followed suit with this increasingly popular trend (Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Linkedin, Reddit, each with their own use). Before we knew it, anyone of us could have over a dozen profiles on different social media webistes, probably without being able to remember!
And then came the more updated or "fun" ways for people to be able to "inform" others of what they were doing: photos, videos, live videos, live feeds, albums, check-in's, activities, posting links to other sites, editing of things... The list is endless! Today there is no limit to what we can post through social media, if we truly want to (or sometimes even if we don't want to).
And yet, I'm still not even at the core of why I'm writing this! Despite how many uses we have to social media, two seem to be the most popular these days: advertising, which is to be expected considering people will try to make money out of their own mother given the opportunity these days, and propaganda. That second one specifically has gotten increasingly tiresome and bothersome, to the point of not being able to open any sort of social media profile without seeing someone trying to influence you on what you're thinking.
It's disgusting that we live in a world in which we have to be told "how to think" or "how to behave" by a goddamn machine, just because people themselves have become so secluded that they don't have the courage to stand up for themselves and talk or they don't like to go outside! No one can or should dictate to anyone else on how to behave, since no one is better, or above, anyone else. Even companies themselves with their sugar and 'rainbows' are forcing their views on the populace. At the end of the day, if someone wants to be intolerable or not understanding, its their own choice! No amount of 'rainbows' down someone's throat will make them have a different viewpoint. How dumb do you have to be to understand that and how idiotic do you have to be to want that type of person's acceptance in the first place?
And speaking of acceptance, that's a whole other thing with social media. Time after time, especially on my Twitter, I see people complaining about their "social anxieties" or their "depression" or their "inability to connect to others"... and then as soon as they do the tiniest thing, they look for confirmation. Which makes me think: has the world always been such a pathetic place? I remember that I myself went through all of this when I was younger (sometimes I still do), but I never ever made it so public! Why would you give a complete stranger so much power over you? You might be going through some tough times, as we all do at some stages of our lives, but don't make it public! That makes you look weak and pathetic! Because no one cares! Even if you get a gazillion likes or shares, still, no one cares! The only thing that changes is that they might want something from you. Why make other people so important in your world? I honestly cannot comprehend the way these people think, especially the ones that were born and raised within social media.
But going back to the propaganda issue, I'm starting to feel like a minority just because my views are neutral. I honestly don't care what (or who) someone likes to do, just as long as they're cool with me. Yet, that doesn't seem to be enough in this propaganda-filled, social media dictated world that we live in. Either you support the LGBTQLMFAO-whatevers, or you're an insensitive homophobe. Either you want women to have equal rights (equal=more, equal=the right to walk down a street half naked and not be looked at unless he's rich&ripped) to men, or you're a sexist pig. Either you want the blacks-asians-hispanics-papricas-eskimoes to have all the rights that white men do, or you're a racist. There is no neutral ground.
It seems like it has been decided (on the online courtroom of his Honor, the Twitter) that all white males are privileged and stand on some sort of 'higher ground' when compared to others. There's so much spite and jealousy when I see one of these groups come into contact with a "straight, white male", like it's the object of their antagonism.
Well, let me just tell you something. I am a straight, white male. I've been poor as shit, to the point of being homeless. Most of my life, I've been overweight, which of course means that the women in my life have been very close to zero (which is probably the point that anyone that reads this will choose to focus on, but who cares). I had a disease when I was in high-school and I broke my leg at the same time! The stress of it killed my father! One of my best friends that helped get me out of that situation is a homosexual. That fact was hidden from me for almost 10 years in fear that I would see him differently, yet nothing changed when I found out. Absolutely nothing was handed to me. Right now, I live a comfortable life because I worked and worked for it. I never stopped being overweight because I decided that no person, man or woman is worth sacrificing the way of life that I enjoy and if I ever do lose weight it'll be for me. I don't care about what's going on in anyone else's life because no one cared about me. Most of my difficulties, I went through alone and came out stronger for it!
So you all want to arbitrarily come out and decide that "all straight white males" are sexist homophobes?? How dare you?! If you need other people's opinions or validation in order to confirm your own existence or if you simply cannot accept the fact that the world is a vain, lonely place in which people only use others for whatever need they have (be it companionship, reproduction, to borrow something, or just to have a good time), that's your own issue, but I refuse to have someone else decide that "I don't like gays" or that "I'm sexist", simply because I will not actively support (nor go against) them or the fact that I think that "yes, if you walk around half-naked you will get cat-called, it's common sense!". I make opinions based on facts! I am not privileged!
