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I actually meant *findthumb oh well. here's to henry rollins.

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I have a man crush on Henry Rollins, and it's awesome!

*gay for ^his comment. LULZ!

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where do people like him find the strength to care is beyond me. All true and nice but when it comes down to it, the world is full of shit, people are shit more often than not and yea I'd probably sooner find myself giving up on it all and just trying to make the most out of my life in the most egocentric way than helping make it a better tomorrow. That Tomorrow is so far away it's science fiction, I just wanna get drunk and listen to some music.

I really enjoy my life and I don't live in America. True story!

Replace America, and chosen famous artists/musicians with your country's name and artists and this speaks loudly for a lot of countries, I know it does for Australia...

I've seen Rollins live and he is pretty mesmerizing, and this is just nicely saying what should be obvious to all, but that's what most great speeches are really.

His neck's too large. It bothers me.

The problem I've always had with that point of view is that if you turn your back on the world because you think it's not worth the effort to make it better, then you can't at all be surprised when the world turns its back on you when you're in a pinch. You create the world you choose to live in. If you choose to create a world of indifference, then you reap what you sow.

We can't turn our backs on the world because we're a PART of the world, which is what he's trying to say. You could close your eyes and ignore it and try to work only for your own happiness--and you might be even be able to succeed for a little while and be happy. But at some point the world you've been ignoring is going to come along mess everything up like, for example, when some gangbanger's stray bullet hits your house or when fundamentalist religious zealots from a country on the other side of the world decide to fly planes into two skyscrapers in your city.

More than at anytime in our history, humankind has come to find that we are all interconnected. Our individual actions DO matter because our collective actions as individuals shape the world: take global warming as just one example.

The world certainly won't become a better place if people sit around and do nothing. Like he says in the video, greatness is found when we don't close our eyes but work with others and help each other to make this world a better place. I personally happen to believe that that is also the only way to true happiness as well.

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where do people like him find the strength to care is beyond me. All true and nice but when it comes down to it, the world is full of shit, people are shit more often than not and yea I'd probably sooner find myself giving up on it all and just trying to make the most out of my life in the most egocentric way than helping make it a better tomorrow. That Tomorrow is so far away it's science fiction, I just wanna get drunk and listen to some music.

SDGundamX: The "world" doesn't back you up when you're in a pinch. And yes, individual actions do matter, and the world won't become a better place if people sit around and do nothing. I guess all I have to say is that
a: lucky thing the entire world isn't like myself
b: if you're willing to spend time and energy towards making this world a better place to live in (mostly for future generations as actual change takes bucketloads of time), good for you, I'm not, again, I have more egocentric things on my mind, and I lack the will to try and fix a society I feel completely alienated from.

I like to be a part of the soluuution not the probleeeeem...

but ye, living a balanced life with what you've got is as I see it a vital part in finding true serenity and happiness

This is like Wil Wheaton's "Don't be a Dick" good stuff.

This place is so nice because it's built on slavery (unpaid labor) and the stolen labor of the developing world. Systems are connected, and you can only live like a king if you are standing on the backs of better men and women.

The world certainly won't become a better place if people sit around and do nothing.

Can you be so sure? Do you realize--had they done nothing--how many drunk-driving, road-raging shitbirds wouldn't have killed innocents? How many tragic idiots wouldn't have been born because their breeder/keepers did nothing instead of fook? How fewer pieces of highway litter there would be due to canceled roadtrips?

The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven. --John Milton