Has anyone noticed how no one judges things on an real basis these days? When was the last time you heard of a movie, or a politician, or even a piece of tech being debated on its own merits in a serious way? I'm not talking about websites like wired or other places that are actually supposed to look at things this way. They usually at least pay lip service to it. That's more than I can say for the 24 hour news channels.

No, I'm talking about in your average discussions. Look at the comments on those same articles. Look at facebook and twitter after the announcement that Avatar took home nine Oscar nominations or after the IPad was announced. How many of the criticisms can be boiled down to "Oh It's a Mac Product. It's crap!" Or "Oh, It's a Mac Product! It's great" or "Man, Avatar made so much money. People are stupid."

Seriously. You guys are fucking morons. OH NO SOMETHING IS POPULAR. IT MUST SUCK BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR AVERAGE PERSON IS A RETARD. Man, I'm so cool. I only like unpopular stuff. It makes me different. And unique. AND I'M A UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE. Now excuse me while I shop at hot topic and circlejerk with the other nine trillion morons who are just as unique as I am and parrot the same views.

Criticism of these products is valid. I'm not saying it's not. More power to you if you have problems with them. But those have to be actual problems. Not "I hate mac products!" or "Avatar shouldn't have made so much money because it was cliched!". Actual problems are things like "Well, the Ipad is really just an huge Iphone. That's... not really that impressive." or "Well, Steve Jobs is a fucking moron who hates styluses, so we're going to have to fingerpaint on our Ipads, which is stupid." Those are complaints. Those are actual issues you object to. You're not arguing on an ideological basis, but on the basis of fact, and of things that matter.

That's what you should be talking about. So the next time you sit down to say "Man I hate X because it's made by Y and Y is a meanie", shut up. No one gives a fuck what you think. Of course, no one cares what I think either, but you're on my blog, so it's your own fault for subjecting yourself to it. Rant about your ideologies in places where people have to make an effort to find you, not all over my goddamn facebook feed. Because I don't care about you, and neither do your friends.