Theme Song of a Generation

If you’ve seen the movie Good Will Hunting, and your perception of society and life has not changed after watching it, then you’re the worst when it comes to critical thinking.  The movie is about a guy named Will Hunting who is poor and has a job as a janitor at Harvard University. Will is surrounded by a lot of snobby pricks at the University, and they walk and talk as if they are the best human beings to walk the face of the earth, and to be real, Will would have been in that crowd if he had been born with two parents that hadn’t called it quits after a one night stand. You see, Will has a brain that lets him read and do math at a rate that would make any other student commit suicide, but seeing as he was born with no parents, he was never placed in school because of being sent to multiple foster homes. If that’s not bad enough, in each foster home, he was abused by his foster home “father.” So to make it clear: Will never had a chance from the start. Amongst all of these things that Will could complain about, Will gets very offended when people tell him “You have a gift,” or “ Don’t throw it all away.” Oh, and this so called “gift” and this “it” people refer to……are people seeing these things when someone is fresh out the womb, or when this someone can only from one word sentences? If you tell me yes, then I call bullshit. This bullshit is what people call “talent.”  The name Will Hunting and the word “talented” were probably never used in the same sentence before he showed up all the Harvard snobs with a few math equations, but after, Will gets praise from everyone. People weren’t calling Will talented for all of his life and then after one nerdy incident…..BOOM!!!

Listen, a lot people who notice that someone is better than them at something hate being honest with themselves and use the word “talent” to help them sleep better at night. “He was born being great at _____” is just one example statement of how irresponsible someone can be by dismissing somebody’s effort and then indirectly blaming God or genetics for the cause of somebody’s success/achievement. The people at Harvard couldn’t come to peace with a janitor showing them up, so they threw around the words “gift” and “talent” to make them feel less insecure. My point is this: Talent does not really exist, it is only apart of our imagination. Nobody is born and immediately identified as a great athlete or super genius. We only observe these things. As for Will, his no show parents and horrible childhood caused a late notice of his skills, which overall placed him at the bottom of the totem pole for years. If you think that talent exists, and that our cultural identity is not being focused on trivial things, then you are believing a lie that the government has been telling you. Most of the people in your society are mindless idiots, and you are one too if you don’t feel what I’m sayin.