Watch Death to the Tinman in Entertainment Videos
Ragdoll Cannon: Remake (flash game)
http://www.bubblebox.com/play/action/1249.htm
The American Form of Government
http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/
You can go ahead and watch it. I’ll wait…
They discount true democracy due to the ‘mob rule’ paradox. You know, I guess it IS a problem if you fail to educate everyone and instead keep an educated class and an uneducated class. In that case, if your uneducated and brainwashed by LCD mass media class happens to be larger than the educated class, then you have a definite problem. But you wouldn’t hire monkeys to drive a school bus either so it really is rather insulting to discount true Democracy when, if all participants were reasonable and intelligent and have their mental schooners on a heading of true, then why not mob rule? If we completely understood why we preserved our freedoms then why would we go and take someone’s house? (The argument in the film was: that if the masses wanted to do something unethical to someone, like take their house, then in a true democracy, they could. In a system of law that overrules the masses, they couldn’t. Isn’t a jury just a much smaller mob though? And a judge an even smaller one?) If a bunch of like-minded reasonable adults can share power equally, help the good of themselves and the group, then a country full of the same should be able to on a larger scale, shouldn’t they?
If there are evil genes (1 2 3) are there stupid genes or are we all capable of understanding much more than we do? Is Alex Jones right about the fluoride in our water and the chemicals we’ve been subjected to? Are we dumber than our true capacity? I know I am! When I think about the things I should be able to juggle easily in my head, the memories I should be able to conjure, the attention span to be able to hold those concepts in my head long enough to polish them off, then I realize I’m dumb as a stone. I embarrass myself sometimes. This blog doesn’t help. It embarrasses me too. Otherwise, I’m sure I’d write in more lucid moments.
Dr. Hibbert: Well, only one in two million people has what we call the “evil gene”. Hitler had it, Walt Disney had it, and… Freddy Quimby has it.
Lionel Hutz: Thank you, Dr. Hibbert. I rest my case.
Judge: You rest your case?
Lionel Hutz: What? Oh no, I thought that was just a figure of speech. Case closed.
What if it was all coincidence?
http://www.wimp.com/thesupernatural/
The synchromystics (synch wiki) feel there is more than just causal objective reality that carries meaning*. And since I had a telepathic experience I’m pretty sure there is too. When Jane calls and you just happened to be thinking about Jane, is it really coincidence? Always? Sometimes? Is our innate ability to detect coincidence, symbolism, and meaning (detect or conjure up, whatever your fancy) the manifestation of meaning? Just as I could imagine a wooden shelf, and then go in the back yard, get some tools, and manifest that**?
* Actually, since we can’t ever witness objective reality and only see it through our own interpretation I hereby declare this next bit moot.
** Actually, I would go in the back yard, get out the tools and the wood, leave them in the rain, be sad about the rusty tools later, and then decide i didn’t really need a shelf after all.
Damn, I can’t find that article about how people find more meaning (or see more faces in a jumble of squiggles) when their fear is heightened. I think I linked to it myself already. Oh, how I wish I was more organized with my tags and categories and such. I’m not.
A Good Batch
Sometimes you make a batch and they come out of the oven and you taste em and go, “eh.” Othertimes you can just smell em baking and you think, this one is going to come out ok. And they do.
Another $6.66, by the way. Coincidence again? How tiresome!
