Monday, July 11, 2011

Materialism

Fact: Anyone who spends $10,000 on a watch is a douchebag.

Why would you spend your time and money on that shit? The only people you're impressing are other materialists. I sometimes honestly wonder what these people do in their spare time other than go to bars and clubs to impress dumb sluts with their expensive clothes and metro hairstyles they spent half an hour on in front of a mirror. Do they hang out and talk about how expensive everything they own is?
 What are people going to have to say about you at your funeral? What's the eulogy going to be like? "We're here today to mourn the death of Douchy McDoucherson. He wore a Rolex, drove a convertible that got 7 miles to the gallon, and spent his entire life working to afford these expensive useless things to find a woman who was equally interested in them. They married, and passed down their materialistic douchiness to their children, Slut and Tool. The family spent their time together talking about how expensive and shiny their stuff was. I'm sorry for your loss, Mrs. McDoucherson. Enjoy finding another man who will express his affection for you by buying you expensive crap that serves absolutely no purpose. Thank you all for coming. Go in peace."
Enjoy living your life spending; I am spending my life living. If I won the lottery, you would find me living in a modest home, going to ska shows a little more often, wearing the same Vans and Aquabats t-shirt I'm wearing now, and an organization that helps needy children will have an extra few million bucks to help them do some good for the world. You can count on that.
One of these days, you'll realize that the rat race you're running is pointless, and that you live a pathetically shallow life. The time and money you spent on stupid crap and your appearance to try to impress people could have been spent making friends that actually gave a crap about you, or to help people in need. But you will find a way to do some mental gymnastics and convince yourself that the crap you bought was worth it, and that you are somehow a better person for buying it. You will tell yourself over and over that your friends actually liked you for you, that your friendships weren't based on your shared interest in materialism and blatant selfishness and stupidity, hoping that if you say it to yourself enough times you'll believe it. Meanwhile, other people are spending their money on things they can actually use, and spending their time with actual friends doing things they can look back on together when they're old and say "yep, those were the days." They will be able to line their walls with pictures and mementos of the worthwhile experiences they had. You, on the other hand, will have nothing to line your walls with but your expensive trinkets, and maybe some pictures of you and some other materialistic idiots who knew you for what you had rather than who you were.


Enjoy your $10,000 watch.