laying some shit out.
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lauralhyeah, also I have these weird beliefs. As does Jeremy. But really half the time I just say things to shock people out of complacency. Like when I say it should be ok to murder your children till they're able to read and write.
I think people shouldn't have boyfriends or girlfriends or whatever until they're able to sustain a lifestyle without one. It doesn't have to be a great lifestyle or whatever, but I had immense trouble in college dating boys who had no desire to control me, whereas the ones who did, well, our relationships were much more successful. Of course when I actually developed my own personal life outside of boyfriends, going back to these kinds of guys was social suicide. And lots of people do this in their teens and twenties, and even worse beyond it.
I think it should be legal to paintball people who break traffic laws. Their cars, rather. Fuck cops and their quotas, they just look for people with lots of different colored SPLATS on the cars, and that's who they ticket. Granted the problem would be people who paintball legally, and people who paintball just to be fuckers, but that can be arranged by licensing the paintballers. It's utterly foolish when, in theory, any idiot can remember how traffic laws work. That is, it's utterly foolish to waste police manpower on this.
Health insurance is a scam anyway, but whatever system we end up with needs to incorporate psychiatry or at least counselors. Human beings evolved in wide open spaces and tying us up in cubicles or in front of the boob tube isn't so great. I have no ethical problems with people taking drugs, but self-medicating on illegal shit isn't necessarily helpful to yourself or society. On the other hand, wide availability would probably make it less of a taboo, less interesting. In Amsterdam everyone knows that the "coffeeshops" are for tourists. Same for the whores.
In general I think that religious mores are responsible for the entire culture of "OMG SEX" that's going on in this country. Either it's this big huge mystique and you're half-afraid, half-eager - or it's just half-naked girls advertising computer hardware and shit. Both sides titillate and intensify the taboo/mystery, but when you get right down to it, sex really isn't all that. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm a big advocate, it's one of the few things that I actually care about, and I'd rather have it every day than not, but I feel like that about tiramisu, too. Tiramisu has more calories, though, and I bet I'd get tired of it and want a break. Anyway, there are many many aspects of sex, but the actual ol' in-out-in-out orgasmic bliss is just not as interesting as The Man is trying to make it out to be. It does, in large doses, induce love, however, which is totally the greatest thing ever. So that's why you shouldn't have lots of sex with a person you don't really like.
I really, really, really don't like religion. Mainly because there is no God. But secondly, most religious institutions insist that you don't think for yourself. There are some that are the opposite, and in fact the way I was raised specifically, I was taught to question everything except. And when I did question "except" I got all freaked out. It's tough, at age 7, to accept that everything all your friends and family believes is utterly false. I pretended not to, but finally there it was. Really no proof, Joseph Smith was a fucking liar, etc. etc. So I had accepted, you see, that if any of them were true, it was Mormonism, and when it wasn't, well, it wasn't. Belief and faith were always a struggle for me, and casting them off made me feel better than I ever had before. Oh, being a nihilist was a little scary, but at the same time empowering. "If nothing you do matters, then everything we do matters."
I believe that most of what people care about (including myself) is due to media manipulation. This includes peer groups. And THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS as long as we accept it. I didn't really "get" it till 9/11, because people die in earthquakes and in Bosnia all the time, I thought, and I didn't really feel any more connection to those people than these. Just because NYC happens to be 3000 miles away in the same country. I dunno, I know I'm not the only person who didn't really feel SO upset about it. But I forced myself to watch and read things until I cared, and I cried, but I was more upset because the information was ONLY THERE BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT AMERICANS. So, fuck that. Same thing happened last week - Reg came over Tuesday night, i'd been avoiding all media till he said "Looks like bush is gonna win." I felt a sinking pit in my stomach, but I knew it was because everything else I'd allowed myself to consume pointed the other way.
I think that until we outlaw corporations and actually TEACH critical/logical thinking skills in schools that the country is not going to go the way I want it to go. Also, eliminate the budget for the war on drugs, or at least reduce it to the point that it focuses on Education, and I don't fucking mean D.A.R.E. Scare tactics are bullshit, for sheep. Sheep can take their Soma and leave the rest of us to take care of the fucking world.
Also, serious about the gun show. Even if you are a tree-hugging gun hater, don't you want to see how the other half lives?
I think people shouldn't have boyfriends or girlfriends or whatever until they're able to sustain a lifestyle without one. It doesn't have to be a great lifestyle or whatever, but I had immense trouble in college dating boys who had no desire to control me, whereas the ones who did, well, our relationships were much more successful. Of course when I actually developed my own personal life outside of boyfriends, going back to these kinds of guys was social suicide. And lots of people do this in their teens and twenties, and even worse beyond it.
I think it should be legal to paintball people who break traffic laws. Their cars, rather. Fuck cops and their quotas, they just look for people with lots of different colored SPLATS on the cars, and that's who they ticket. Granted the problem would be people who paintball legally, and people who paintball just to be fuckers, but that can be arranged by licensing the paintballers. It's utterly foolish when, in theory, any idiot can remember how traffic laws work. That is, it's utterly foolish to waste police manpower on this.
Health insurance is a scam anyway, but whatever system we end up with needs to incorporate psychiatry or at least counselors. Human beings evolved in wide open spaces and tying us up in cubicles or in front of the boob tube isn't so great. I have no ethical problems with people taking drugs, but self-medicating on illegal shit isn't necessarily helpful to yourself or society. On the other hand, wide availability would probably make it less of a taboo, less interesting. In Amsterdam everyone knows that the "coffeeshops" are for tourists. Same for the whores.
In general I think that religious mores are responsible for the entire culture of "OMG SEX" that's going on in this country. Either it's this big huge mystique and you're half-afraid, half-eager - or it's just half-naked girls advertising computer hardware and shit. Both sides titillate and intensify the taboo/mystery, but when you get right down to it, sex really isn't all that. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm a big advocate, it's one of the few things that I actually care about, and I'd rather have it every day than not, but I feel like that about tiramisu, too. Tiramisu has more calories, though, and I bet I'd get tired of it and want a break. Anyway, there are many many aspects of sex, but the actual ol' in-out-in-out orgasmic bliss is just not as interesting as The Man is trying to make it out to be. It does, in large doses, induce love, however, which is totally the greatest thing ever. So that's why you shouldn't have lots of sex with a person you don't really like.
I really, really, really don't like religion. Mainly because there is no God. But secondly, most religious institutions insist that you don't think for yourself. There are some that are the opposite, and in fact the way I was raised specifically, I was taught to question everything except. And when I did question "except" I got all freaked out. It's tough, at age 7, to accept that everything all your friends and family believes is utterly false. I pretended not to, but finally there it was. Really no proof, Joseph Smith was a fucking liar, etc. etc. So I had accepted, you see, that if any of them were true, it was Mormonism, and when it wasn't, well, it wasn't. Belief and faith were always a struggle for me, and casting them off made me feel better than I ever had before. Oh, being a nihilist was a little scary, but at the same time empowering. "If nothing you do matters, then everything we do matters."
I believe that most of what people care about (including myself) is due to media manipulation. This includes peer groups. And THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS as long as we accept it. I didn't really "get" it till 9/11, because people die in earthquakes and in Bosnia all the time, I thought, and I didn't really feel any more connection to those people than these. Just because NYC happens to be 3000 miles away in the same country. I dunno, I know I'm not the only person who didn't really feel SO upset about it. But I forced myself to watch and read things until I cared, and I cried, but I was more upset because the information was ONLY THERE BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT AMERICANS. So, fuck that. Same thing happened last week - Reg came over Tuesday night, i'd been avoiding all media till he said "Looks like bush is gonna win." I felt a sinking pit in my stomach, but I knew it was because everything else I'd allowed myself to consume pointed the other way.
I think that until we outlaw corporations and actually TEACH critical/logical thinking skills in schools that the country is not going to go the way I want it to go. Also, eliminate the budget for the war on drugs, or at least reduce it to the point that it focuses on Education, and I don't fucking mean D.A.R.E. Scare tactics are bullshit, for sheep. Sheep can take their Soma and leave the rest of us to take care of the fucking world.
Also, serious about the gun show. Even if you are a tree-hugging gun hater, don't you want to see how the other half lives?
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:51 am (UTC)1. I should have the title "Michael the Bold" and everyone should have to refer to me as such.
2. Actually, that's all I can think of right now.
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Date: 2004-11-08 12:11 pm (UTC)You're so right about this. And it's especially true in my case; starting a relationship while living at home with my conservative, not-homophobic-but-not-cool-with-it mother would definitely be a horrendously bad idea. Yet I can't help but 'look' all the same...
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Date: 2004-11-08 12:50 pm (UTC)Yup. I agree completely. Almost everyone loses money on it, and would be better off paying cash.
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