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Monday, June 9, 2008

State of the World Address: The Beggars & the Bitchers

Talk is cheap.

Shut the fuck up about it.

What is "it", you ask? It's about issues that affect our everyday lives which we cannot change without determined action; those that we complain about and wish against. Continue on to see what I mean.

There's no point in talking about things you don't like that you know deep down inside can't change, and hoping in all your verbal/literal disgust that these things change for our benefit. Some of those things include the gas and oil prices, the common stigma of "honesty hurts", various things consumer-based companies take away from their product lists, and among many other things.

As a whole, we are a bunch of fucking babies.

Talk is cheap; actions speak louder than words. Remember, we communicate mostly (and by a wide percentage margin) through physical expression; the face, the eyes, our limbs (hands mostly), our movements; it's not our voices that get the message across more, it's our damn bodies and the movements they make. Use your body to talk. DANCE BABY! Quit 'yer bitchin' and dance! Move your ass!

How do you use your body to speak louder, and clearer, than words?

Let's get into the gas & oil price crisis. Many of my friends and myself, that is all of you able to read this note, fall under the 99% population margin of "lower class" citizenry. This crisis affects us the most and will hurt us more and more as it is let on. And since the current price of gas & oil (not entirely synonymous with nor dependent on one another) is huge; it won't stop there. In what I think is a laughable, pitiful, useless reaction, people try to start up petitions, facebook/myspace groups, anecdotal demands, and the like, in hope and determination to persuade the authorities to lower the price. There are at least 4 groups on Facebook, for example, with the glaringly obvious demand of lowering gas prices. God damn babies, shut up and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

The bitching won't do fuck all. In fact, if any of the Big Oil monopoly players were to see one of these Facebook groups for one, this is what I think they may do: laugh right the hell out loud to tears (with some even suffering from strokes, heart attacks, loss of breath, or any kind of illness to the laughter), and then consider amongst themselves (because we know that a Big Oil executive is never alone), "Let's raise the gas & oil prices up to piss them off even more! Hell, they give us a reason to! They buy our damn product all the time, and they're demanding we lower the prices?" You know they could very well do it. And to support this scenario, they'd pay their media connections like Fox, CNN (CNN especially), NBC, and whatever other major news network you can think of, to publish a story intending to somehow lay blame to the Facebook network, perhaps on the grounds that a "terrorist group is operating on Facebook intending to spread bad word about *insert Big Oil company name here* and encourage those to threaten oil supplies." Thus, like many of the issues floating around the big media right now, those like Russia's monopolistic efforts to control the oil trade or the eco-political conflict of invested interests in the Mid-East 'threatening oil trade routes', or even the bullshit "oil supplies are at an all-time low" line which I've heard at least a dozen times in one form or another.

Just wishing, or sending letters of "concern" ain't going to cut any slightest bit of cheese; you've got to do more. To develop on the gas & oil price crisis, if you want things changed, that is, the grossly high prices of those products (early last year, for example, a full heating-tank of oil would cost up to $800; as of now it is at $1,400), you've got to show the Big Oil companies that you are sick of their manipulative bullshit. They're bullshitting, mean sonsabitchez, but you and I, the masses, have numbers on our side. The best you can do is, at least for a week, or even more if you don't mind; stop driving. Stop putting their products into your vehicles and heating systems (you don't need the latter this time of year, unless you're unfortunately living in the Arctic circle, so scrap that in the case of Summer), and you won't be part of the problem. If people really want this madness to stop, they'll stick up for themselves and stop driving for a week. Or are we so far gone in our dependencies that we don't like the thought of walking a mile, 30 minutes, an hour, or what have you and would rather take the easy way out?

Hope is meaningless but in this case, I am sincerely hopeful, and sure, that the masses rise up and show the enemy that enough is enough. Violence isn't necessary at first, only as a last resort, so the simplest (and most powerful) methods would have to come first. Everyone should stop driving for at least a week, some even a month; ride a damn bike. Change your vehicle's system to no longer depend on the products which Big Oil has their gnarly metaphorical hands on. Stop using oil heating, and go to electric, water, or whatever other form of heating there is instead. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if Big Oil has their bloodthirsty claws in Hulk-like grasp of the Water industry.

Also, demanding the government to propose a lowering of the prices of these products is futile because A) they don't control the oil market and B) they make MONEY from this market, C) not giving the government a real reason to lower the prices of products from what they universally consider a viable economic profit margin for their pockets, and D) even a lowering of the prices of oil will result in the price of other products being raised to "make up" for the losses! This is why I think that those who waste their time on these literary efforts should stop while they're ahead. It's a pipedream=centered method of communication that won't produce anything but a few laughs from narrow-minded psychotic (read the definition for this word as it is used technically here) bureaucrats or spiteful spikes in prices for products they know the society from whom they're filthy rich depends on.

That is, if you WANT things to escalate in prices, thus bringing your finances ever so closer to doom, be my guest and keep giving the big industrial powers the reason to jack the prices up for no realistic reasons, sugar-coated with childish excuses, sustained by the bureaucratic minds of the share-holders, who expect more and more money at the end of a week or certain time-span in their already bloated wallets and bank accounts. Our society is so damn selfish, dishonest, chickenshit, unrealistic, short-minded, superficial, and self-destructive that it's going to come right back in our faces like one of those massive boxing gloves you feared about in your dreams and drunken stupors. I'm a contributor to few of these issues (not including the gas & oil crises, thankfully), but I could contribute nothing at all if I wanted. What about you?

The moral of this story? Stop bitching, and start doing. If you want something changed, then don't sit there and type out an email, random-useless petition, letter of "concern/request", or whatever some sad folks bother to do, and show the enemy that you're sick and tired of the bullshit. The French Revolution may be on its way again soon; all it takes is a little chain reaction. Will you start that chain reaction?

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Survival is Key...

I think it's time to see things straight.

For the longest time in the last 6 years of my life, I've been devoid of aim. I didn't accept myself for who I am, and what I really want for all this time. That will likely change.

Two university/government-certified personality tests, composed with utter professionalism without the sarcasm or error present in those of internet "5-minute quizzes", held the exact same results despite being completely separate tests. They had the same aim as each other, but were composed and presented differently. Yet I got the same results.

Neat 'o.

My personality is that of an Investigative, Realistic, and Artistic person. Key traits are that I would rather work alone, don't like much physical work, would rather do something that utilizes the brain, am creative, perceptive, rather introverted, and spontaneous. Every one of these traits are what I see of myself. The tests didn't involve right or wrong answers; it was all about perception. For example, one such question would ask, "A person is struggling with a very difficult question. You could help, ignore, or recommend someone else to help him/her. What do you choose to do?" There are 6 categories, which include mine; Investigative, Realistic, Artistic, Conventional, Social, & Enterprising.

I have images of a few careers would suit my personality types. My codes are: IAR, IRA, AIR, ARI, RAI, RIA. You can spot them all on each image. A couple of the careers listed, including Biologist and Architect, are actually appealing to me. You can see all of these in the images below.

Oh, and keep mutating.