I Didn't Understand

I am coming to terms with the fact that some (a lot of) people think very differently than me and always will. As such, I have decided I will probably never understand the following:

- Why some people stay inside when they're not working and don't have much else to do and it's a really nice day

- Why some people playing video games all of the time instead of having a consistent social life or passing their classes

- Why some value nothing over how much money they make or will make someday

- Why some never question why the believe what they believe, or vote the way they do (if they vote)

- Why some don't think voting is at all important

- Why girls often date douchebags and shy away from guys who would actually treat them like a human being (same goes for some guys with girls I guess)

- Why dude-bros and others think driving a big truck enlarges their manhood in anyway

- Dude-bros in general

- Why some people flat out hate the environment, and any policy that preserves any part of it

- The idiots who think Barack Obama is somehow a Muslim

- Racism in general

- Why so many people "only watch Fox News". I'm a liberal and I don't just watch MSNBC. Sometimes I even check out what extreme-right wing thing that Fox News is saying.

- Why some refuse to read things that they think they will disagree with. "The sign of an educated mind is the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- The general anti-intellectualism that is holding sway over a good part of the electorate (especially the modern GOP - For example, see: "Sarah Palin was qualified to be President")

- Why Fall Out Boy is so popular...I really don't understand it

- Why some would rather eat at IHOP than Kerbey Lane or Magnolia Cafe

- Why some don't see the importance of supporting the few local businesses we have left in any given city (it's a suburban mentality, but I didn't really grow up in the suburbs)

- Those who lack a sense of humor in most areas

- Street racing (killed one of my best friends who was innocent, an ultimate form of narcissism)

- People who don't understand why the "N-word" is offensive to a lot of people, or don't understand the history of civil rights and racism in the U.S. in general. See also: people who refuse to admit the Civil War was primarily about slavery so as to feel better about thinking that the South was "okay". See also: people who don't see why so many people are offended by the confederate flag, or think that it should still be flown over capital buildings in places like South Carolina

- People (especially who aren't from Central Texas) that think Texas is way better than any other place in the U.S. I like to think that this part of Texas is better than most places, but is Houston better than San Diego? Or Amarillo a better place to live than Portland or the Colorado Rockies? Let's be realistic...

- People who enjoy Mexican food, driving on freeways or living in a new house, and then complain about the immigrants that made them.

- Interior state (mainly Republican) politicians like Tom Tancredo and Mitt Romney who think they know more about the border than people in TX, CA, NM and AZ.

- Why some people think onions taste good. I can't imagine the idea of onions tasting like anything other than rocky dirt soaked in urine.

- Aggies, anything about Aggies, Aggie traditions, pretty much anything about Texas A&M - Believe me, I know a lot about that place and the way it is, but to this day I still don't see the appeal.

- Why some don't understand why driving slower in the left lane of the freeway is a bad idea (for your safety, and the 50 or so cars bunching up behind the semi that you're not passing)

- How some people can believe that being poor (even in the U.S.) is somehow always a choice and that everyone is born with an equal chance to be rich (which involves equal education opportunities, but who really believes a kid in Southlake and a kid in South Dallas have an equal start?) everyone who is poor is lazy and chooses to be. It's just flat out wrong and untrue. See also: The belief that no one on welfare has a job (often they have two or three and are supporting their kids alone).

- The use of a single weather event (a hurricane, a blizzard in north Texas or a heat wave in Seattle) as evidence for or against long-term Climate change (most Global warming detractors and people like Al Gore are guilty of this). Seriously...

- The propensity for so many to believe anything the read or see on the internet

- People who move to Central Austin and complain about noise from live music venues

- How anyone that's not a vegetarian could not like In-N-Out burgers

- Oklahoma...I just don't get it