Demented Ramblings

[Neuromancer]

Politics, schmolotics...

Who cares who is the president?  One person is as bad as any other. No matter who is elected they will petition the senated who makes and passes the laws that run this country.  Vote for the house not the figurehead silly. 

Another four years of someone to blame for the congresses mistakes.  Outstanding!  Another four years of people choking down their news from corporate giants invested only in controlling hte populace to make them the most money.  More viewers, more commercial dollars.  People want to believe what they see on TV. 

Mass media and the internet have not brought the world more together.  Only allowed a greater amount of mind control on an already programmed race of creatures.   Memes run our lives.  The clothes to buy, the cars to drive, the uselessness of deciding between 2 people who is the most likely to represent your interests. 

The average person is a beast of burden.  Shackled to society to bear the brunt of the load for the privelaged few.  HAve a job, a nice house and adoring family.   Buy the biggest gas belching behemoth you can, and pave over mother nature, so we can have more room for these death dealing monstrosities.

Another SUV... another glorified grocery getter that only sees offroad time when accidently backing over the garden bed.  Amazing that the world is capable of such micro minituarization and yet our cars grow larger and larger.  Spending so much time in your vehicle to get to your governement job shuffling papers around, one needs to be able to stretch out and relax, tooling down the highway at 75 miles per hour in bumper to bumper traffic.

Lets not forget the hours long weekend trips cramming everyone into a car to jaunt cross country to visit the people that you originally moved away from.  Telecommunications have taken the thought out of communication. 

Hmm one might say that instant communication has deprived the necessity of thinking of something interesting to say.

But that would be self-depricating in this thread would it not?

[Ed]

Yup, I have that unnerving feeling that I've dug myself a hole, and now feel obliged to sit in it until I die   My hole is just off the main freeway of life, I have a stash of stones with me, and now and then I just lob one out into the passing traffic, to remind everybody I'm still here....

[Neuromancer]

Heh heh that sounds like fun 

[speyeder]

*swerves around tumbling vehicle with rock hole in windshield while driving down highway of life* 

The things we own end up owning us. I wish I could tear myself away from this computer and move to a place where I could live simply and scratch myself, without the numerous responsibilites and nuisances that are all around us. 

[Ed]

It's over-rated   One of those things that sounds good in your head, but in reality would drive you insane.  I've always fancied a job like Jack Nicolson had in The Shining - you know, locked away in an isolated hotel for the winter, just writing and watching a bit of TV from time to time.  I think I'd love it.  But then look how it ended up for him 

I think the problem we all have is that we spend too much time being what everybody else wants us to be, and this in turn is fuelled by our desire for all those 'home comforts' that are rammed down our throats by the media.  I would really like a break from the rat race, just say three months to simply exist, without having to work.  Trouble is, I probably wouldn't be able to get going again afterwards