I hate everything about where we're heading, I really hope the kids reject all this.

When I wanted to trade my piano in for a drumkit (age 12) mum wasn't keen, but said if I could save for one then I could. Started doing odd jobs, swept the floor of the local farm supply shop every Saturday morning for $5 an hour. Took me a while to save, in that time I had bought some drumsticks and was practising on a bucket. 

Not long after my kit arrived my parents thought I might like to check out the shearing shed, 1/2 a km away from the house, "and you can make as much noise as you want".

So home from school, down to the shed that smelled like sheep, and practise... for hours. Sun goes down, wander back home for dinner. 

Repeat. 

At no point did I wish I could type "cool drum beat" into a prompt box and have it done in seconds. 

I started a band with mates, we played at pubs while still in high school. When I moved to Sydney for uni I kept it up, new mates, new pubs. We wrote songs, we made music - every moment enjoyable, never wishing it could all just be done for us if we paid a subscription. 

I really can't wrap my head around this. How dull are lives going to be without that progression from amateur to skilled. Where does accomplishment come from in 10 years if this is the standard? Why learn a thing, don't bother making, just prompt baby. 

Kill me