I want to shout it from the rooftops: Dear Internet, stop telling me to make stuff! Stop telling me to do things!
This whole "cog in the machine" notion is a myth. The world is fascinating, people are fascinating. Always has been, always will be.
I would counter this entire article with one of my favorite quotes, from the movie Adaptation:
"Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life!"
This whole "cog in the machine" notion is a myth. The world is fascinating, people are fascinating. Always has been, always will be.
I would counter this entire article with one of my favorite quotes, from the movie Adaptation:
"Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life!"