johnnylexicon has deleted his journal.

Someone go get him and tell him to come back, please.

I just fucking hate smart people sometimes, you know? I hate elitism. Sometimes I hate intellectuals and can always completely understand the reasons for the anti-intellectual moods of this country.

I hate smugness and holier than thou. Hate the words “trailer trash” and “flyover states”. Hate the “stock car drivers only can make left turns” attitudes of my artistic brethren. Hate that every stupid person on TV is given a Southern accent.

I’d be kinder about the difference between these people and their attitudes if they were less sure they were right. A pat on the head and a knowing smile and they turn their backs on their fellow citizens, their enthusiasms, their lives.

The feeling that if everyone was just exposed to poetry, art, music the way WE are they’d all be better off, they’d just love it and they’d all be so much better for it and the war would end in Iraq…

Horseshit. Because quite frankly, a lot of people think we’re full of shit. And after thinking about it, a lot of people are right.

We are full of shit — because we pretend to care and we don’t. We like the masses as metaphor and the culture as a backdrop for our ironic musings. And as long as it stays that way, we’re good.

Sometimes, my fellow artists, intellectuals, brilliant thinkers — it all makes me want to puke.