30 things I think are overrated

I don’t necessarily hate these things. I just think their brand, the way they’re perceived, is overrated.

1. Led Zeppelin: Cut their songs in half, give ’em some structure, and dump Robert Plant, and you might have something worth millions of T-shirts.
2. Retirement: Delayed gratification can only go so far. If you never love life now, you’ll never love life.
3. Social justice: I don’t want justice. I want compassion.
4. Independence: Independence is just a scammy version of isolation, which isn’t even human.
5. Running shoes: Try it without them – try barefoot.
6. Chinese food: I love it, but why doesn’t anyone mention Korean food or Thai food or Indian food and so on?
7. Batman: The dude’s a rich boy. Nothing wrong with that, but the Joker stole his show with some cheap makeup.
8. Democracy: It’s glorified mob rule.
9. Physical books: They look cool, but you don’t really need them.
10. Authenticity: To become something better, you have to become something you’re not.
11. Money: It’s intrinsically worthless (unless you’re an idiot).
12. College degrees: College doesn’t make you smarter. Learning makes you smarter.
13. Conversations about politics: Talk is cheap. Go run for office and see how it goes.
14. Fishing: Can we quit pretending we like to fish? We like to sit on a boat or on the bank and dream the day away. The fish are just an excuse.
15. Tattoos in some Asian language: It’s not cool. I’m not sure it ever was. Unless you’re Asian.
16. The right to free speech: Would you really stop if you didn’t have that right? If yes, then you probably don’t deserve it anyway.
17. Pandas: They’re going to join the dodo no matter what we do.
18. Skepticism: I like questioning, but pretending we can stay suspended in a state of disbelief is delusional. Why aren’t skeptics skeptical of skepticism?
19. Tans: Color is fine. Orange is not.
20. Ninjas: What is this, the ’90s?
21. Sliced bread: Actually, I’d rather have any number of inventions other than sliced bread.
22. Gold: It’s a gaudy hunk of metal. Can we move on from the stone age already?
23. Waking up early: It’s a perception. That productive feeling has little to do with the physical position of the solar system.
24. Potato chips: I can just eat one.
25. Three main points: Speakers and writers and teachers think they’re cool. I think they’re a bit contrived whenever I see them, including when I just wrote, “speakers and writers and teachers.”
26. Productivity: Productivity is for measuring machines, not human beings.
27. Osama bin Laden: Was it really that difficult to fly some airplanes into some buildings pre-9/11? If someone wants to be bad, it’s not that hard.
28. More options: More options paralyze because then no matter which you choose, you’re always giving up more.
29. Believing in yourself: Just goes to show how little successful sports players really know about success.
30. Movies: Is Pixar the only one making “G” movies anymore? <<Get it? Over-rated? Yeah.

Any questions? Do you agree with me on every, single one of these?

What would you add?