Yup. I It's these damned plastic "disposable" stereos that you can basically plug in and go. Quality goes down but ease of use goes up, basically my generation would rather spend their time listening to music that doesn't involve their minds, therefore shunning their ears from the equation too. I could go on and on. Like I said before, my stereo isn't super hi-fi, but it's impressive and I bought every damn piece of it with out a job. I would make stuff, sell it, or aquire things and sell them. Some of it was free, but I made it work. Yeah, maybe some people don't have the time or the will, but dammit, listening to Iron Man on my stereo and listening to it on a bookshelf/home theater-in-a-box will not compare.
The opening bass drum drives likes nails up through your legs and makes your heart skip a beat, to the beat, Toni Iommi bringing forth the dropped down guitar into your ears, it makes you shutter, when the bass riff rips through the 12" subs and the speakers simultaneously, you open your mouth to ask me if Sabbath inhabits my room, but I'll be damned if I could ever hear a word you say.
For my music, a bi-amped system with seperate bass level control is perfect. Because not every song warrants lots of bass. Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult likes bass, but Caught In A Mosh Needs a lil less so. My tweeters don't scream. Well, before I blew one, they didn't.
So anyway, I really do spend hours tweaking small things like wiring, and I've tried random "tricks" and I used to clean all of my inputs and cables regularly, but I've gotten lazy. I probably should. It's probably healthy.
Most of my generation don't know what a Sansui is. All they care for is bass in their trunk. Yes, I have the POTENTIAL for more bass than most cars, but I don't abuse it. I walk down the street and I hear the crappiest sounds coming from cars. Makes me sick.
Rap does as well. But there was good rap once, fun rap. Not gold, platinum, drug and car-obsessed rap. Why the hell would you waste the money to put diamonds and platinum on your frickin' teeth? What happens when one falls out and you eat it? You crap it out and dig it out of your sh*t and put it back in your mouth? Ugh. Rock these days is almost as bad. Watered down and wasted.
I hate the generation I was born into. Because of the dumb fools I am forced to associate with, I am sterotyped and when I get a car my insurance will be double what it should be. Because idiot kids go out and drive like morons and get in wrecks.
Ugh.
The despise history and science and now Japan, what was once a pretty screwed country makes every important step in science and technology. I wanted to be scientist once. But in the US there's nowhere to go. I wanted to be a paleontologist once. But noone really cares about what happened 100 million years ago, so there's be no future. My career choices suck because noone cares about what's important. I want to study WWII and get paid, hell if you could do that, everyone on this forum would be rich! But there isn't a job like that, why?
Because history is so far down on the ladder of important issues, even though it affects us now so much it isn't even funny. I may only be 19, but I've faced death, I've held a person's life in my hands, 3 times, and dammit I just want to live a good life. This world is f*cked up and noone could give a damn about what happens to our soldiers fighting our wars, our veterans from yesteryear, or what happens to our own. I'm so confused in life...