The thing that bothers me the most I think is pretentiousness.

Everyone is guilty of it sometimes, but some people let it rot and corrupt them and actually see it as good taste, intellectual esteem or being refined. None of the previous things in their true natures actually bother me. I would like to think I have good taste, at least in my own biased, flawed opinion. All people should feel that way. However, some people are so insecure that they convince themselves that what they or what other people think is cool is actually, definitively cool and empirically good.
 
I see a lot of this in my chosen profession. As a musician you encounter an endless amount of posing, preening, tragically hip rock stars, photographers, fashion slaves and those who don't seem to have a job outside of showing up to the right party or event. These idiots actually convince themselves they are punk rock or Rock n’ Roll prophets, some form of royalty. They love to sit around and drink in cool dive bars, smoke cigarettes and talk about what they think is awesome and sick with no capacity for being able to make fun of what they are doing.
 
I mean, we are all guilty of harping over what we think of the latest Joanna Newsom record or carrying on about how Radiohead or Tom Waits are incapable of sin, but if you can't realize how dumb and contrived the whole thing is and actually do things to try to separate yourself from the flock, you are, literally, just a sheep. I don't mean being different to be different. I mean being different because you are. Maybe it's rooted in my Judeo-Christian inability to think I'm God, but I just can't seem to convince myself that what I feel and what I want should be the absolute truth of what other people feel and want. It is just mine.
 
Another thing; these jerk offs tend to be either rude, stuck up, or nice to the point of being borderline or card carrying liars. I think people should look each other in the eye or at least try to, make the effort to do the right thing and look out for someone if they are falling behind.

Pretentiousness leads to self righteousness and caring more about being cool or smart or with it than being truly good. This also means not caring as much about making people feel bad or liking nerds or emos or jocks or hipsters or whatever classification you want to throw them in that doesn't fit into your retarded little box.

The world could end and implode if these people take over. It would be worse than having Dubya as the president.

I think we need to stop them.
But then again that's just me.