They're everywhere. And I've been keeping a list.
There are a lot of people who are quite simply fools. Fools I say. We have one advantage over the fools - we know they're fools, while they only suspect it.
Anywhere you go, you won't be far from a fool, simply because anywhere you go, you won't be far from people. They're the ones who get the Spice Girls to No. 1 while nobody would admit to buying the CD's. They're the ones who popularise the instant gratification of the Playstation and shower Sony with money, paying dearly for those expensive licensed 'games'. These are the people who always fall for the '3 for the price of 2' gag that supermarkets pull. Who needs three for the price of two when one will do fine for the price of one? Fools - that's who.
It's pretty easy to make a living with all these beer-swilling fools who aren't interested in anything other than going to see the match this afternoon, going to the pub to 'get away from the wife' or buying their tabloids. Why bother thinking up some ingenious and cunning new scheme that will blow away the competition when you can hire somebody to 'funk up' your product for the MTV generation? Cool is all that matters, after all, isn't it?
People like Bill Gates are not evil anti-christs. They're smart people who've jumped on the opportunity to dumb down computers so that the average, normal, common FOOL will buy. And buy some more.
Being average is the worst thing you could do or want to do. Why do you want to be normal? Part of the pack? Not good enough to be yourself? Do you, in other words, need to be somebody else? Somebody, say, COMPLETELY NORMAL?
Of couse, there is being normal, and there is another kind of being normal. Which is different. Getting average results on a test is something that cannot be helped. Being average height or weight is also something that probably can't be helped. But when people actually want to change themselves so that they conform to the expectations of others... when they can't think for themselves... when they're slaves to society... when they want to be cool... those people can't be helped. Because they're fools.
Cool does exist, but true coolness is not the brand name, catchy slogan, season's colours, new hairstyle or hard music that most people associate with it. Quite what cool is, you can't define.
Or perhaps you can, but I just can't be bothered.