Disc sitting in the corner near the fan

Thursday June 9, 2005 - 12:57AM EDT

I was just thinking that it is funny when you see people drinking liquids out of a cup in a situation that is purely focuses on drinking liquids. I am not talking about alcohol. I am talking about a thirsty person guzzling some water or kool-aid. Man I haven't had kool-aid in years. I used to drink that stuff all the time when I was a kid.

It's funny that I think this considering I hang out with people like this (active church members and young Christians) but I can't fathom how young people today become involved in the crackpottery that is religious belief. Whether it be one of the major 5 (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism) or some other new age nonsense, I would have thought modern education would have taught them better. I don't understand what they find in that stuff. Personally I just think they are scared and don't want to face the rawness of the real world. That they need a crutch to help them deal with everything that goes on and don't want to take the burden upon themselves completely. So they offload responsibility or reasoning to these imaginary machinations that have been built up over hundreds of years instead of just accepting total confusion and chaos in their minds. I don't think any one of those people could give me a reasonable explanation for their beliefs. It all comes down to this crackpottery they like to call faith and that has the same potency as anything I can come up with on the spot. Maybe they just seek answers. But define answers first. Maybe they define answers as something that stops the asking of questions. Really that is what an answer is, right? When you have the answer your question has been solved. I take a stance that my question will never have an answer. And that the answers I seek are simply pathways to more questions and that is what I want. That final causality that philosophers are forever searching for I don't even bother with.

Oh yeah, what is the deal with people STILL treating science as a monolithic dogmatic teaching akin to religion. What the fuck is wrong with people. Science is simply how humans naturally think and process things, it isn't to be treated as some seperate field where one can choose to accept it precepts or not. Damn fools.

I was supposed to meet people from work for some goodby dinner for people who are leaving. Well it was at 7pm and basically I slept until 8pm today so I missed it. Ah well.

I am also trying to figure out why in the hell modern nations continue military build up. I don't understand it sometimes. All of the land on planet earth has been discovered and divided up. The average person can pretty much travel freely to any place in the world. So why do governments still view each other as enemies on this planet. The average person clearly does not see that dude in running the coffee shop in China as an enemy or even the woman who runs the fruit stand in Iran is not an enemy. Are governments serving as proxies for feelings we don't dare voice or do they create animosity out of nowhere because they feel they have to as the entity is it. Your neighboor down the street didn't want to go attack Iraq because it came into his house and broke his wife's knick knacks. A couple of crazies who indentify themselves with a certain group and suddenly that whole group gets a bad rep. I imagine that human society must eventually form a unified culture and the many fractured cultural groups of today may still exist but as less important sub-cultures. The unified culutre is being lead by American youth and media as the #1 exporter of culture but the final product may resemble something completely different. I freaking hate the idea of humans performing repetitive tasks like manufacturing. When I hear people lament the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. I say good riddence. Humans don't need to be fastening a screw 1000 times a day that is ludicrous. Even as those jobs move oversease, I wish that those people there too didn't have to do that kind of crappy work. Droids. All manufacturing in the future should be done by robots. Its is slowly transitioning today but not nearly fast enough for my taste. America, every country should be trying its best to get rid of manufacturing jobs and replacing humans with droids in those jobs. Humans are much better at more complex and abstract tasks. Not sewing 40 pairs of jeans a day. I would wager there is some factory worker in China somewhere that has an idea to sew jeans or whatever using a machine or robot for a fraction of the cost and 10 times the quality. This worker probably thinks about building this machine everyday. Let's call him Hen Kuai Shou. In 30 years textilies manufacturing droids will bear the label HKS.

I wait for the day that nation states will not be recognized as the major political boundaries. It will simply be one planet and the current nation state divisions will be relegated as history lessons for school children. Much like the provincial divisions of medieval Japan came to mean nothing except in a historical context. Although today there are prefectural units, they are not based on the original provincial divisions of the Shoutoku Taishi revolution. I think for the most part people are ready and would welcome the abolition of current nation state boundaries. There might be a few ultra-nationalistic holdouts but I think they are rare. The main hurdle right now is leveling off the standard of living for the planet. Because of the idea that removing boundaries would make people stream into the most prosperous areas of the world and deplete resources. It is a psychological issue more than anything. People just need to get over their fucked up nationalistic pride. I can't remember a time I didn't like nationlistic pride. In today's world on today's earth nationalistic pride is a completely egotistical concept. The divisions are imaginary and serve to comfort fragile egos. I suppose they serve some economic or political purpose but no one is trying to eliminate them out of some kind of fear. Maybe it is not time yet, but hopefully the time will come eventually.

I am already thinking about what to eat for lunch tomorrow. I want more southeast asian or japanese type cusine.

You know who I hate? Liberals and conservatives. Conservatives for supporting the clearly awful status quo and liberals for complaing about it and doing nothing or doing such stupid retarded bullshit that would never work in the first place. I hate that bullshit. Sometimes I just want to kick people who ask me to donate to charity. Charity is fucking bullshit, nobody wants charity and nobody wants to give to charity so give it up already, stop trying to make your self feel better and trying to reconcile your intrinsically parasitic lifestyles.

I was just thinking today that I hold in no high regard any standard of society as something to be followed in itself. I take anything I learn and consider it my own, whether it belongs or originated as a standard of soceity is of no consequence to me. I always reserve the right to manipulate and change anything that is considered a standard to fit my own needs. I'm tired. What am I going to eat for lunch tomorrow. I think sushi will do the trick.