Wednesday, August 4, 2004

the wonder of pop culture, the good and the bad?

Well here we fucking go again. Why do I use the word fucking? Cause it adds to the emphasis that I am trying to , um emphasize.
     I just watched two movies in the last few days based on my need to relax and hang out, and not tax my brain, which suffered a concussion. My thoughts aren’t changed that much, but the way my brain has dealt with my motor, nerve, and emotional issues is changed…hopefully only for a short time.
     I watched “Dummy” and “The butterfly effect.” Neither movie presented an idea that I had never thought of before, but both movies touched me deeply. “Dummy” had one message of ‘everything has happened for a reason’ and “the butterfly effect” had a message of chaos.
     Both of these messages exist together. In this chaotic world, everything happens, and when it happens, other things happen…confused? Well a Chaos-type theory tells us that no matter what you do, where you are, you are not in control of what happens next…you are in control of your own actions…but those actions are mostly reactions to the uncontrollable actions of other life forms. Those things that “happened for a reason” only happened by chaos…but you will notice that if you can follow along, and make the best decisions for yourself, it doesn’t matter what chaotic events happen.  You will always adjust to those situations one way or another. Whether it is strumming up enough courage and wits to find your way out of a forest…or finding a way to get your ass to work when your car is impounded, you still had to get a good look at the situation and find out how to overcome it.
     I use the “ant analogy” from time to time. Put something in the path of a line of ants heading to and from a pile of food for the queen. Then observe the chaotic response before finally one or two ants figure out how to get around that obstruction.  I can use that analogy for small or large scale situations. (yes, here comes the system…Haha)
     When the constant line of ants finds itself following a line that doesn’t seem to exist anymore (I.E. a rock, a hole, a line of poison) life becomes pretty chaotic for those ants for a short time. Ants are tiny, and their world moves much faster than ours. So after 5 minutes of absolute chaos, some ants have died, or gotten themselves completely lost. Eventually enough ants scurrying around, find a new path to that food, that they are so destined to find. 
     We are much larger than ants, and therefore our time runs a little slower. Look at nature and realize that the smaller the animal, the more offspring it produces in a shorter amount of time…(ants, mice, rabbit, cats, horses, elephants…catch my drift?) So when something impedes our natural order of things, it takes longer to impede, and longer to overcome.
     The government has impeded humans natural order of things. It took a long time to do so. Now we accept the system, because it is rare that any human being alive today has ever had to live outside of that system. After a certain time of chaos, humans will do what the ants I mentioned did. Some will die when they lose their way, but eventually humans as a whole will find how to keep striving for what this obstruction oppressed them from…the natural way of living.
     Let me turn my attention to Anarchy…Societies labeling of Anarchist does not represent what the true anarchist is about. Notice how I capitalized anarchist the first time, and didn’t capitalize it the second time? The first time was the label. The second time was the belief. Some people say, Anarchy is chaos. I say anarchy is the failure to respond to a government that has no right to control our lives. You already live in chaos. So anarchy is not going to present you with THAT new problem.
     Your problem is this: At this current time, the government has a stranglehold on you. They want as much of your money as they can. More and more fees and licenses that are doomed to expire to take your money. If that money was going to good use, I’m not so sure I would be so offended. But how many of your tax dollars are going to worthless causes…The head of the FCC spent millions of dollars to have a good time. In the eighties we “investigated” why the government was spending hundreds of dollars for things like hammers and toilet seats. Even since the inflation of prices from the eighties, I can buy the best hammer and the best toilet seat ever from Home Depot for $100.
     Politicians have one goal in life, and that is to get some of that tax money to feed their families. Worse than that, they don’t want to stop at supporting their families, they want to live in luxury. How would you like to live in luxury on the sole laborof making a proper speech? Using the money that some taxpayers have given by checking a certain box on their tax returns (check this box if you would like $3 to go to the campaign fund) Underneath the question of whether you want this money to go to campaign funds is the disclaimer, “checking this box will not effect your taxes” Meaning, “Go ahead and check the box, it’s not YOUR money.” But it is your money.
     If enough people check that box, only one of two things can happen. Either the government has to find a way to fit that into their budget, possibly requiring some tax increase somewhere, or they already have a surplus of YOUR taxes to send to various political candidates. I would be happy to find that a political candidate could get his message across to the people, so they could decide what they wanted, but in this system they can only subscribe to the system to get enough funds to get their message out. Once they do that, they have a new agenda. What has 90% of the political population ever done to ACTUALLY make humans better off? Most of them spend their time trying to convince you that THEY should be entitled to some of those tax dollars you give up without any thought at all. I gotta stop typing, because this is making me sick, but I shall return.

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