Sorry to keep banging on about this but I just cannot see what Donald Trump’s sons have done by killing wild animals (which were not endangered) that is suppposed to make them so much worse than a person who gets someone else to kill a cow for them so they can enjoy the meat.

Both are killing for pleasure

(if you honestly believe that human’s need meat to survive, you are unaware of the facts. One word for you: HINDUS).

Why is it so acceptable to point at the sport hunter and call him evil but call the person who eats meat normal? Both are responsible for an animal’s death.

Logically, the sports hunter and the meat eater are on an equal moral footing when it comes to animals and their right not to be killed.

If you think it’s fine to eat meat stop calling the Trump’s Sons evil. They are just doing graphically what you do every day from the safety of the meat aisle in the supermarket.

If you think that Trump’s sons are evil and killing animals for pleasure is inexcusable then stop eating meat.

I am not judging people for eating or not eating meat or for hunting or not hunting. I am judging people for ‘throwing stones in glass houses’: pointing at the sport hunters and calling them evil while ignoring what that implies for their own dietary habits.

A few days ago a band posted their page on my fb wall saying ‘they’d love to know what I think’. They were really bad. Imagine Dragonforce without any of the technical skill or singing ability. They were bad in a way that has nothing to do with music taste but bad on a purely technical level: the singer just could not sing (a basic requirement for any type of music). I told them that they probably didn’t want to know what I thought of their music. They seemed surprised that someone didn’t like it. I realised it’s probably because all they’ve had in their ‘career’ is their friends telling them they’re great. No one had given an honest critique of their music before.

It seems that these days there is a taboo against criticising others creative efforts. No one gets told they’re shit anymore. If your friend makes something like a piece of art or a song, the accepted response is to applaud the fact that they have engaged in the act of creating anything at all (as if this were in itself worthy of praise) rather than stopping to consider whether what they have made is actually any good. Maybe this is because we are now all creatives in some way and we fear criticism of our own efforts if we criticise anothers. The result is that elitism is dying and creative projects that are evidently awful are flourishing under the encouragement of the creators’ friends and peers. This is evidently a bad thing since without elitism, the arts becomes flooded with the mediocre and the downright terrible making it harder to find what is actually worthy of praise.

So next time you’re friend shows you what they have made, don’t act like their mother, tell them the truth.

Do not keep an open mind but a closed one instead. Otherwise what is to prevent things that aren’t true from entering? Once the universe has presented you with enough evidence that a thing is true open your mind for a brief moment to let that thing before closing it again quickly before other ideas and beliefs try to slip in while you’re guard is down.

Sometimes when I’m on the train I become filled with this almost overwhelming urge to become friends with everyone immediately around me. I hope that one day I do it.

‘The Internet is a blackhole. It absorbs energy and personality and then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion and we are getting lost in the spectacle. ‘