I Rarely Rant Now

Rails Is A Ghetto

I’m saddened by the number of grown men I meet who worship guys like the persona found in this rant. Too frequently men (especially younger men) will by default listen to whoever “talks tough” rather than the people who make the most reasoned arguments. They will listen to blow hards and pundits all day and blindly follow their “leadership” on fad after fad, never really questioning whether these people are worth listening to in the first place.

At first this rant was both a release of pent up anger, and also a parody of the pseudo-jock online speech. Eventually the rant took on a life of its own and I saw that my main readers were guys looking to read more pseudo-jock speech.

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