Advice That Destroys A Nation

The following is an direct quote of a Facebook friends status:

 "Fuck society. Fuck normality. Get piercings. Get tattoos. Do drugs. Get high. Drink 'till you pass out. Have sex. Love with all your heart. Play the music loud. Live your fucking life. Fuck what people expect of you. Do what makes you happy."

 Below is my most apt response:

"I always thought it was hilarious how normal the so called different people are. If you get piercings and tattoos, you are essentially the same as everyone else that is getting piercings and tattoos to be different. There really is no normalcy and ad normalcy in America. Granted, there can be eccentrics -- but I think that has more to do with their thought process than their physical appearance.

In regards to the advice: 'Do drugs. Get high. Have sex.' Well, taking this advice is what most young people have done -- and that is why 1 out of every 4 teenagers in America has an STD.

That advice is basically anarchic, childish, immature, and irresponsible. It screams Aleister Crowley without the wit of a, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
I can assure you, almost no one walking around with AIDS and multiple STD's is happy."

Alisteir Crowley -- This is what your advice leads to.

On Knowledge, its Application, and its Usefulness.

"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." -Enrico Fermi

While conversing with a co-worker today, I began to go into a political tangent - and quickly fell into an agitated state. At the conclusion of my tangent, one co-worker who had overheard my knowledgeable arguments said to another, "He's like a walking encyclopedia of useless knowledge." Whilst one could construe such an observation as a compliment, I, in my agitated state -- could do nothing of the sort. To me, it was a synopsis of the ignorance of the modern American mind, and it is to that mind that I present this question -- Can knowledge, no matter the sort, ever be truly useless? 

To those who would deign to answer "Yes",  I present with this quote.

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." -Samuel Johnson