Rant alert: extreme aversion to superficiality

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Am I merely being elitist, or is this a typical aspie trait? If so, this topic has probably been done to death and I'll offer my luke warm apologies in advance.

I cannot stand shallowness. I don't like small talk that is going nowhere; I don't see the point in idle chit chat, especially with strangers. No, I do not want to know how you are doing if I barely know you. I don't care about your problems, and I don't expect you to care about mine. Dear colleagues, and all other people whose mindless chatter I'm more or less forced to listen to: I don't know if those pants make you look fat. I don't know whether or not your wife is having an affair. I don't know how to fix your son's penchant for wearing dresses.

Speaking of superficiality, most songs nowadays are either completely vulgar, or corny, cliched, braindead love songs which we have all heard a million times before. Yet the hedonistic, brainwashed MTV generation continues to consume it like valium at a housewives' convention. Music is worse today than it ever has been.

Additionally, almost every Hollywood movie is a piece of plastic garbage. Every other movie seems to feature either that 4 ft scientology garden gnome or some talentless hack whose name, unsurprisingly, escapes me. Never mind that the ending can always be guessed half an hour into the movie. Why can I only turn to literature to find an engaging, intelligently written story?

Speaking of which, why do people seem to convert en masse to... oh screw it, enough bile for today.

this chick may have the answer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyDtYy2I0M

she worked under Reagan. something to do with education. think she's for real?

I do not like it when people put on an act to hide their true intentions trying to impress people-phony stuff-I hate it when people I don't even know say to me "my friend" that irks me to no end! I do not know you and I have very few if any friends.

On teachers being trained... "sensitivitiy training... all religions represented, tolerant of everything becasue that is the new world order - disorder..."

Stopped listening right there. So much for the land of the free... and the Bills of Rights. If she has no repsect for the values of our foundering fathers perhaps a new, less tolerant country would be more to her liking...

um, she speaks for freedom. maybe you didn't listen long enough.

I listened to 3/4 of the video and couldn't stomach any more. She wasn't talking about 'freedom' - she was questioning a policy of inclusion and racial and religious tolerance in the classroom. She wrapped it up like a 'freedom' issue. How DARE the government tell educators they need to 'lose their moral values'.

She was, in fact, doing the very thing she was accusing 'the state' of doing... spinning the issue to her POV.

Asking educators to not their their personal values impinge upon others that may not share them or agree with them is not the same thing as asking them to become moral-less automotons.

I found her pretty offensive. In a very polite way, of course.

You are not looking at it over a long enough term. Most folk music (European and American, at least) has always been "completely vulgar, or corny, cliched, braindead love songs." Likewise pop, when you look at what was actually in the charts in the heady heights of the Fifties (or whichever decades take your fancy) and not look solely at the good songs that get remembered. I don't think that vulgar, corny and cliched is necessarily a bad thing, and I think you're missing something of the point of music, but that's by the by; the point is that it's a mistake to think the current trend represents an all-time low.