29/06/18 Pseudo serious TV shows and movies have mangled my brain into thinking that a defining statement and angry eyes is all it takes to be victorious in the turmoil called daily life. When one factors in the sheer number of stubborn, condescending, angry and super genius characters defined by pop culture to be successful, one grasps a small percentage of the problem at large; the problem being: anything that sets people as being “general” or even good is somehow not enough to make them successful. The conniving but high profile politician, the rude but brilliant doctor, the genius physicist who tests people’s limits and berates them over typically non-sensical things—they make for great characters who we, in the end, fall in love with. We wear their merch, we reference their nuances, we like their fanpages, we impatiently wait for the following season to release—but all for what? Interesting characters aside, this represents the sheer hypocrisy of the audience and