I jsut have to laugh at this - comments(24) - email me

Sunday July 1, 2007 - 1:38AM EDT

What I am referring to is the recent  "attack" by some idiots at Glasgow airport.  I stress the word attack because they accomplished nothing besides setting themselves on fire and causing some temporary chaos. The reason it is funny to me is because of this. In the last year I have seen people do more damage with their cars by accident then these clowns did "trying" to wreak havoc. I am not talking about standard car accidents on the highway either. I talking about the couple odd reports where someone barreled into a gas station pump causing an explosion (that happened more than on one occasion).  Also the few times some person drove into a freaking house and wound up killing some people. When you honestly look at this. It shouldn't cause any alarms or worry anybody more than you should be any other day. Frankly something like that could have happened by accident anyway (I'm not implying this one did however). I just want to go up to these terror clowns and tell them, "dude, are you serious, is that what you came up with, I get more anxious and afraid watching 'World Scariest Police Chases' or living in the valley."  I just hope people don't use this to raise the fear level because that is really the only thing something like this can be used for. The cat is out of the bag as far as there are nutty people try to kill other people for no logical reason. So it is not like this is further proof of any big change in the world.  When I first saw the headline I thought about the other recent incidents then I thought, wait a minute what assclown was smoking a cigarette and using the bug spray at the same time while driving and fucked up big time.  Stranger things have happened.

Vilgilance - comments(15) - email me

Friday June 29, 2007 - 4:21PM EDT

I haven't been posting enough lately and frankly I've let things slip by that I shouldn't have.  I read an article today with this headline.  US urges vigilance after London incident.  First as an aside, I'm not ready to go up to the level of conspiracy theories about using such fearful incidents to gain control of a populace but I'll never put such ideas out of the realm of possibility. There are various comments in the article about making sure people keep an eye out for suspicious activity. Coming from the government that is such a sinister statement.  That kind of idea works for smaller communities, maybe one's own neighborhood where to rankle the status quo of daily happenings would be very out of place. But such a comment from a large government only works to provoke irrational fear (Boston you deserve 1 million kicks in the groin for the shit you pulled a few months ago).  Honestly what the fuck is suspicious activity.  It just depends on your level of paranoia.  People always talk about privacy and that Big Brother idea being bad things but what they don't talk about is how we ourselves turn into the very things we rally against.  The government asking to report suspicious activities sounds like 50's red hunting. It sounds like every other authoritarian government out there using their own people to spy on their own people.

Besides the whole absurdity of keeping an eye out for suspicious activities I was thinking about the headline. I thought are they serious? I thought about the 125 plus murders in Philadelphia this year so far and how some kids walk to school in fear.  Honestly, the last thing any american needs to be vigilante about is some terrorist plot. The list of what kills people in the United States is long and terrorism is probably still behind bathroom slip and falls. It is completely baffling and illogical how so much emphasis is put on terrorist acts in comparison to other more deadly things. It is just odd how the human mind works. Or doesn't work for that matter. Our natural fear response just doesn't have the capacity to resolve the complexity of real human society.  Yet for the most part all of our pathetic excuses for leaders follow their crappy fear response.

All this keeps making me think intelligence is not a result of education. Intelligence has to be more related to the ability to resolve thought processes. I really despise the notion that going to a great school suddenly means you posses some kind of increased mental ability. All that idea does is serve a mental class division and line the pockets of those who tout themselves as the best. Such a thing didn't happen on purpose but I think it was an organic organizational tendency. Crap I am tired, I'll finish this later.

Leaders - comments(22) - email me

Thursday June 28, 2007 - 12:59PM EDT

Have I ever seen or experienced what I would consider a competent leader? Maybe my standards are too high but I don't think I have. When people look up to certain leaders with adoring reverence I am baffled. All I see with these "leaders" is some assclown who wanted to be at the head of something or was forced to be at the head. I just keep asking myself question, "are things really that terrible or are people really that stupid?" 

I keep trying to figure out what the ultimate question is.  Like in Hitchhikers Guide.  What is the ultimate question. For humans sometimes I think it could just be survival. But there are so many answers to that. Then I just think seeking such a question is asinine and the product of a fool with a weak mind.

Recently saw some news about Egypt and discovery of a new mummy. Every time I hear about ancient peoples I am amazed. Especially the Egyptians. Their longevity is something the modern age hasn't even approached yet. It amazing to think that the modern age is not even half of recorded human history. I think about all the religions that exist today and make claims to being truth and having the most important history.  When you actually look at what we know, the ancient Egyptians religion lasted far longer than anything we have today and could still retain that record when it is all said an done. Things like that give me pause when I think about human ideas. How they can last so long then vanish. How people of one era can think something to be real and another era does not. I remember my short stints in catholic school growing up. How they taught us about the bible as being the definitive source for knowledge and everything you need to know is in it. We'd watch cartoons about stories and what no. When I think about how and what they taught me then I feel completely deceived and robbed. These assclowns tried to indoctrine and single minded view of things because some other assclowns told them it was the way to go. It is the same way when I think about regular history that I have learned. American history and the things I learned in school. I got half-truths because....  Well I don't even know why. I think about it this way. People today are far more educated than 100 years ago.  But humans physiologically have not changed so much in a hundred years as to have some profound effect on intelligence.  Sure there have been societal changes but if today we can learn far more than we did 100 years ago why is there this artificial limit we impose upon ourselves now. Sometimes I think humans don't give themselves enough credit for how much potential they have to learn.  This is most aparent in schooling. We lament the failure of some of our young people to barely be able read. I lament the failure of every single person on the planet not being able to speak 10 different languages at least.  That is a real goal. I'm taking for granted the ability to read.  But in that context reading to humans needs to be as simple as putting food in your mouth. Peoples expectations and goals are so low that it seems like such a monumental task to just improve our schools to the point where everyone can read. The task is great for sure, but not insurmountable.  We think the effort we put into just  getting our schools to read well is  great. It  is not. It is pathetic. 

I wonder what the world would have been like if the ancient Egyptians had prospered and spread and survivied until today as a global soceity. The mysteries of the pyramids would not be mysteries at all but apart of well-known history.  The middle east may be a different place. Instead of the center of competing beliefs and conflict it would be the center of all society and human stability.  Of course the people's of ancient Egypt didn't disappear. They just changed, but their ancient ideas were lost. Although the past is unchangeable  I can't for one second think  it was predetermined or guided along a prescribed path. So I think would would the world be like if certain things had happened. What would the world have been like if the African slave traded of the colonial period had never happened? What if Chinese society had not been arrogant and closed itself off but spread out and dominated world culture?  Could there have been a present where Africa was the most populous, prosperous and most advanced continent in the world?  And if that was the case would Africa even be considered a continent.  The continental designations were decided by Western society. What is the difference between Europe and Asia besides cultural boundaries, there is nothing physically separating them. Maybe what we know as the continent of Africa would be divided into 5 distinct continents.