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Incase you haven’t realized.... it has become uncool to sound like you know what you’re talking about or to believe strongly in what you're saying. Invisible question marks and parenthetical ''you knows’’ and ''you know what I'm saying's" have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences even when those sentences aren’t like.... questions 'you know'. Declarative sentences, so called because they used to declare things to be true, as opposed to other things that are totally... "You know"... not. They've been infected by this tragically cool and totally hip interrogative tone, as if I'm saying ''Don't think I'm a nerd just because I've noticed this, I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions I'm just inviting you to join me on on the bandwagon of my own uncertainty." What has happened.... to our conviction, where are the limbs on once we once walked, have they been 'like' chopped down with the rest of the rainforest, 'you know'? Or do we have nothing to say. Has society just become so filled with these conflicting feelings of... nyuhhhhhhh (or insert random odd noise) that we've just gotten to the point that we're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since 'you know'... a long time ago. So I implore you. I entreat you. And I challenge you to Speak. With. Conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination in which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to just question authority; you’ve got to speak with it to.