But i need to get this off of my chest.
I was at a gig just over a week ago and there was a small cluster of irritating indi-er-than-thou indies present. Though I can get a little like that and the gig was Jackson Jackson - an obscure Australian band - so there were bound to be some of these types there, one of the guys t-shirts caught my eye and caused me to loath him and all others who own the t-shirt.
The t-shirt was a typical indi-t with a random picture and quote, but it was the quote that got me:
A life without knowledge is a death in disguise.
ARGH. FRUSTRATION AT THE WORLD is all I can express. What a stupid sentiment! To me this demostrates that there are both indies shallower than your average teenybopper and would buy the t-shirt because it sounds deep and would make them seem intellectual and that there are some truely idiotic people in the world. If you take this statement seriously, I have some very firm and fundemental disagreements with your view on life.
This quote immediately brings to my mind another quote of pretty much the inverse, Slarty Bartfast in The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (books or radio series, certainly not that awful movie):
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Doesn't that seem a much more sensible message? Shouldn't that be true? I'm not saying that knowledge and true happiness are mutually exclusive, but I just think it's a sad world where people feel you have to have one to be able to achieve the other.
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