![]() When life is easy you don't appreciate it, you get bored and do stupid things to convince yourself that you're special. They're not content with simply having a comfortable existence. Middle-class alternative people, are driven by a fundamental desire to be special. As high school dropout and millionaire Adam Carolla says, "If you're so smart, why don't you find a way to make some fucking money?" I've not yet heard anyone come up with an answer that question.Īnd what's the deal with "Special Snowflake Syndrome"? I'm not spending my free time with a bunch of Eeyores who try to cut other people down to make themselves feel less pathetic.Īlso, your banker friends are a lot smarter than your loser friends, despite what the losers' pile of graduate degrees might suggest. Well that makes sense, because it's miserable being around people who don't like themselves. Yeah, I often have a lot more fun with guys I know who are bankers, than my alternative friends. But they certainly have a commanding lead in the category. They don't have the complete monopoly on being buttholes who won't stop shoving their unsolicited, excessively strong opinions in your face. They operate under the extremely misguided notion, that lording their knowledge of obscure music will make people think they're cool. Why is the sky blue? If I had to guess, I would say because they're sad, insecure people with no social skills. It made me sad, because I thought we were going to be the first generation who did not turn into bitter, butt-hurt old fags who hate everything new. And when they did, would just stand in the back, arms folded and talking shit on all the younger kids who were having fun. One day I looked around and saw all my friends turning into the angry, old people who'd rarely go to shows. So, what happened to you that made you turn your life around? Hanging out with girls, making friends with normal kids from school and getting wasted. Going to vegan bakesale benefits for Mumia Abu Jamal, getting in shouting matches about whether Earth Crisis was a hardline band or not (they weren't), and wearing denim shorts with a bootleg Shelter patch on them.Įverything else that a normal teenager would do, pretty much completely passed me by. Here's what I did NOT miss out on: Spending my Saturday nights alone playing Super Metroid and listening to Napalm Death on cassette. What do you feel you missed out on, having spent your youth having excessively strong opinions about music? I guess this is because I'm also socially awkward, listen to weird music and hate myself, just like them.Īlso, I don't like to toot my own horn, but I do consider myself the founding father of the "relentlessly mocking butt-hurt metal nerds on the internet" movement. I've found that kids actually listen to me when I give them advice (eg. One of the reasons why being a kid sucks so much is that you are too dumb and stubborn to listen to anyone else, so you only learn from your mistakes. What's the most satisfying thing you've seen happen from your work with SYWH? When I make fun of dumb stuff that the younger generation of kids does, I'm really just making fun of myself because I definitely would have done the same shit if I was their age in 2012.Īnd like you said, I also try to help younger kids avoid making the same mistakes I did: being vegan, straightedge, white knighting, wearing Jncos, and, worst of all, taking myself and my opinions too seriously. SYWH is basically the blog equivalent of that. When you're hanging out with your bros, what do you spend 90% of your time doing? Busting each others balls about embarrassing shit you did in the past. Sergeant D: SYWH is a comedy blog, where we make fun of stuff that we like. Noisey: What's the SYWH ethos? Are you on a mission to save the youth from themselves? So I spoke to Sergeant D about how he changes lives daily. As a result, Stuff You Will Hate has become an internet phenomenon among metal and hardcore fans looking to better themselves. His observations about youth culture are so insanely spot on, that it’s impossible not to take the life advice he dispenses. The proprietor of Stuff You Will Hate, Sergeant D, is one of those ex-grumps, and he’s taken it upon himself to be the bigger brother to an entire generation of dorks who take life too seriously. Then, after four or five years of this shit, they grow up and regret that they spent their formative years in self-imposed exile from their peers. There's the miserableness of being straight edge, the unnecessary piousness of veganism, angry politics and music that’s ultimately unlistenable to the vast majority of humans.
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