Single Life for Me

So, an interesting thing happened to me today. Alright, see, I have always been what one would call a hopeless romantic. I have always been a person that sought to find that one perfect woman and identify with her and... blah, blah, blah. Well, (and this would explain the blah-ing) I'm kind of over that now. Well, at least temporarily. See, I used to not be able to stand watching those cute little couples together because it makes me feel alone or whatever. Well, now I have been noticing that I see those same couples but I'm beginning to think the feeling I get is a little different now. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm happy for what those guys have found but really, I just find myself feeling... well... sorry for them. See, I just got out of a relationship a couple months ago and while I have been over the whole mopey stage for awhile now, I had yet to find the upside of being single and just wanted to find another girl to go out with again. Thing is, now that's the last thing I want, because all I see in those guys that have found someone right now is a ball and chain of sorts. I know it's a cliché to notice this type of thing but it's one thing to hear about it and another thing to experience it. I just don't find myself caring about the fairer sex right now... well, at least in that way. All I see now is someone that would try and control me and essentially ask me of stuff that I frankly can't see them deserving right now.

So, in closing, I am about to say something in a style that only those little cosmopolitan, drama queen, "Sex in the City is my inspiration" little chicks usually use. Nagging, self-righteous, control-freak, hypocritical women of the world, you can kiss my ass!!! Yeah, so despite what popular opinion may think, women and their almighty uteri (heh... uteri) do not hold power over all men. We get our "kiss our ass" movement too, and you all can shove it!!!

Ultimately, I think Henry Rollins expresses it best.

Medication Nation

Arlight, first off and not a poem, this will now be the location of poems instead of the other blog. See, I figure poems are more direct vents and this blog is about direct vents so this is it. Anyways, here's the poem

Medication Nation

Don't feel quite as chipper as you should be?
We've got a pill for that.

Having trouble getting to sleep right away?
We've got a pill for that.

Having trouble getting up in the morning?
We've got a pill for that.

Can't seem to pay attention for very long?
We've got a pill for that.

Paying too much attention to everything?
We've got a pill for that.

Need more energy throughout the day or are you just too fat?
We've got a pill for that... and it's even legal now!

Need vitamins so you can stop eating food?
We've got a whole aisle for that.

Are your legs feeling every so slightly restless, making you ever so slightly uncomfortable?
We've got a pill for that... yeah! Of course, I'm serious, it's a disease!

Are you sick of spending your entire life in a fucking hospital bed and being known as the poor little guy with that one disease while people watch their T.V.s and make a month or a fucking piece of cloth for you and donate a couple of dollars every now and then so some little kid can go to Disney Land while another scientist continues to research how to keep a 60 year-old penis erect!
Sorry, we're busy treating real problems here.

Immortality

This is in response to something from The Ain't Christ where he meant to make a comment but wasn't able to for some reason.

Anyways, the comment was, by what I can see, a commentary (maybe a criticism) on how human beings translate their fear of death into a need to pass on one's seed or influence. Ultimately, I have to agree with this idea completely. I don't think it's a bad thing (not speaking for Moth saying it's a bad thing. Just know some people think that). I just think it is an important thing to recognize. See, this little human condition of ours is precisely the reason we do anything that we do.

I suppose someone would misconstrue this as sex being our sole meaning for existence. Hell, I know that idea exists widely for a fact. Thing is I think that's wrong. I think that that is only one part of the puzzle. We seek to create life because we know, deep inside, that our genes are a part of our existence. But this is only one part, the physical side, if you will.

The other part that I think is a major part in the mechanism of our society is the societal side of things. See, one can always say that evolution works in everything and essentially it does but the fact is that evolution is not just simply the progression and selection of certain genes. Evolutionary traits can also be passed on by one group or person (person being any being) seeing a better way to do things.

For example, an ape in his family notices that if he drops a heavy rock on these other small rocks, these rocks break open and he finds there is food inside (the smaller rocks are nuts). This ape has now found a whole new food source, one that may be plentiful around him. This ape now uses this technique to get his food while he raises his new generation of apes and these other apes see this and use this technique as if it was just a natural way of things and it was something they were built to do. Was a new gene introduced in this process? No, there wasn't. A simple idea was passed on from one generation to the next and is just as concrete as a physical gene.

Now, what does this whole process of thinking add up to? Well, I think these small ideas that we introduce into the gamete of our society successfully gain us immortality. Tell me, what is your being? What really makes you different from the generation before you? The only thing that makes you different and makes you an individual is the small addition you make, per the spreading of your genes and the spreading of your thoughts. So, essentially, by spreading your seed and/or spreading your influence, the only you that essentially matters in the universe has achieved immortality.

Does your conscience stay in existence? I don't know. Nothing says it necessarily does but a couple of billion years ago, nothing said that ideas went anywhere. I think this is the most legitimate persistent fear and the basis for most if not all religion. Everything else we know of passes on except our consciousness, right? Think about it for a second. Our physical being passes on, our philosophical being passes on, our emotional being passes on (not something I expounded on and not something that has a very large effect but think about the fact that if you are sad or pessimistic, how this influences the attitude around you, and then think about the compounding effect this can have), and our practical being passes on. Noticing the trend, one would have to logically guess (not conclude, for conclusion, we have to have a concrete method of this transaction) that the transfer of our conscious being passes on. Fact is we don't know if this last part of us does pass on, or if it passes in full in some way (one could argue that it has also been a universal law so far that things only achieve transaction partially).

Anyways, that's enough rambling. Ultimately, I think religion, among other things, is a quest to find this transaction that lets us achieve immortality. Whether or not it exists? Don't know. Either way, it doesn't effect my plan of action. I'm going to do everything I can to pass on who I am and what my existence is. What that existence consists of doesn't really matter until my area of opportunity (my lifespan) ends and by then, I just want to be as well-equipped for whatever may come my way because if there is anything I can do about it, you can be sure as Hell that I am going down fighting.

Driven by Fear

This is in response although not solely to focus on a series of posts and comments on geothinks.blogspot.com.

Throughout civilization and our human cultures the two driving forces seem to be hope and fear, both of which can be considered one and the same. This post is to focus on fear. It seems to me that the initial driving force of extremists that can be harmful to society is fear. When it comes to the belief in a god, the fear, to me, seems to be that the people leading this extremism are afraid of being ultimately responsible for their own faults, while simutaneously believing that they can control their perfections. However, despite the climate of today's world, religious thought is not the only vehicle being driven by this force. One would often find that any type of systematic belief in anything can be driven by fear.

For example, the Soviets seem to have based their beliefs on the economic recovery and the nationalistic supremacy that they felt they were warranted. This was a belief that was based on a political system and not a religious system. Yet, this was driven by fear and not hope, which is why it was hindered. The political leaders, such as Stalin, were motivated by the fear that "Mother Russia" would fall and that they would not be able to compete or control their government. It is true that it started with a hope, which when Lenin was still the leader, it was governed with hope. My firm belief is that if Lenin and his beliefs survived, Soviet communism could have been an acceptable system, but that did not happen and when Stalin took the reigns of government, the motivator of that country changed.

Today, America seems to be driven largely by fear. It is not the fault of one single religion, religion is only the medium through which the fear was introduced. Looking at this and the lessons learned through history, when the inspirator of a government system is changed from fear to hope, it seems that an overthrow of government is the only option. My point? The USA, sooner or later will see a revolutionary movement. This is not a bad thing, it is only a necessary part of a cycle that each nation needs to go through in order to survive. Refusing this cycle makes a nation go the way of Rome and cease to exist.

It seems that, noticing these historical trends, hope and fear are the two key driving forces of the human races. Every system of civilization starts with hope and then decays into fear, inevitably.

Super Sized?

I just watched "Super Size Me" yesterday and it got me thinking. Is the food industry responsible for the obesity epidemic? My answer is no. I do believe the fast food market does need to accept responsibility for sustaining the obesity epidemic and keeping the market uneducated, there are other factors that should be held responsible for making obesity an actual epidemic. Let's look at the dates. Obesity rates did not change their growth excessively until 1997. Looking at this, we have to think about what changed then. During this time, the advancement of the internet and television began. This created the idea that, with our free time, we should stay home or get together with friends only to watch tv, or play on a LAN. It made the idea of taking a trip to the mall or having a night on the town a rarity.

While McDonald's and the rest of the fast food industry should be held responsible for some things, the obesity epidemic is not one of them. The obesity epidemic can be firmly planted on our society and essentially on ourselves.