As Promised...

We, as a society, are very much into nitpicking, and it's something that annoys the hell out of me. Something can be good and have flaws, in fact, most things which are good have flaws. I just don't see the point in sitting and talking about an apostrophe or whatever when looking at an object. Does it show that someone wasn't doing their job? Maybe, or maybe the realization is that 99% of people out there simply wouldn't notice.

Rather than looking for positives, we, in general, try to find negatives, attempt to dissuade ourselves from liking something, for various reasons. Many people don't listen to the radio because they don't like corporate music. Frankly, I think this is asinine. Sure, most of what gets played is crap, but discounting anything on that basis is stupid. One might also point out that the people who say this are also pretty knowledgable about music, including the music they claim they don't listen to. Hmm.

Anyway, there is the old saying that "ignorance is bliss," and to some extent I find that to be true. The more you know about something, the easier it is to find fault. I would contend the statement be altered somewhat, though, because ignorance isn't necessarily bliss, but the opposite is more often true, that the more one knows on the subject, the less happy with that subject one becomes.

Of course, what that altered statement would be, I don't know. Exercise for the reader.