Original

Are our mannerisms and affectations totally original and organic? We, at least the royal we, see youth emulating pop culture styles both in terms of dress and behavior and look down on such mindless parroting. (By the way, I was never a youth. I went straight from being a child to an adult a couple years ago.) But do we look down on this behavior for the lack of intellectualism for being so devoid of substance or the lack of originality for so blindly following trends. If it's the latter, then do we the educated, cultured, mildly high brow, and slightly elite suffer the exact same problem? After all, don't we copy our high brow thinking for the celebrities of the intelligentsia and do our own fair share of mindless parroting? Are the intellectual icons somehow more worthwhile to emulate because they don't use double negatives unless it's appropriate? I want to say it's the former and that pop culture really is devoid of substance and value or any true contribution to the world and that it is right, and in fact necessary, to look down on them. But maybe that's just what I was told by someone with PhD.

I lost a day at the beginning of the week. It must've been that ConocoPhillips meeting on Monday. I got home on Tuesday and thought it was still Monday.