Random Ramblings of a Ravishing Realistic Retard(?)

On Technology:

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Its true. I've personally never found more joy other than the fact as to how much easier life has become by pasting my face to a computer screen for somewhere in the immediate vicinity of 6 hours a day. Now that I speak of it, it seems like a staggeringly large number. Its some time which can be better spent sleeping or, say, going on the hunt for Nessie(im sure Google with help speed up that process monumentaly).


On God-mongering:

I don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves to fulfil our peculiar needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world. Something in the selling of religion is inherently disturbing. The fact that some person would go door-do-door selling a belief(i wont call it a faith, since that would be patronizing a non-existent entity) which he/she has either a. willingly accepted, b. has been told by parent/guardian/educator to accept or c. been forced into by some series of fortunate/unfortunate/non-relevant circumstances.

However that person may have come to follow his religion/belief/faith is his and his business alone. It, by no means, gives said person (missionary) to come parading his religion and trying to make a sale at my doorstep.


On Fears:

I've heard an idea proposed, I've no idea how seriously, to account for the sensation of vertigo. It's an idea that I instinctively like and it goes like this. The dizzy sensation we experience when standing in high places is not simply a fear of falling. It's often the case that the only thing likely to make us fall is the actual dizziness itself, so it is, at best, an extremely irrational, even self-fulfilling fear. However, in the distant past of our evolutionary journey toward our current state, we lived in trees. We leapt from tree to tree. There are even those who speculate that we may have something birdlike in our ancestral line. In which case, there may be some part of our mind that, when confronted with a void, expects to be able to leap out into it and even urges us to do so. So what you end up with is a conflict between a primitive, atavistic part of your mind which is saying "Jump!" and the more modern, rational part of your mind which is saying, "For Christ's sake, don't!" In fact, vertigo is explained by some not as the fear of falling, but as the temptation to jump!

This idea in itself is amazing. The fact that the human brain can within a split second go on war with itself to such an extent as to cause physical discomfort leaves a lot of room for us to blame the world's problems on human error. Think about this for a moment and try and imagine, that if the brain is able to contradict itself, how many wrong decisions must a man make in a day, and how many of above mentioned bad decisions must have been of monumental importance to only affect one person, but also the world, and maybe history itself.

Maybe Napoleon felt a weird sense of "vertigo" when he stood at the brink of the battle of Waterloo.


On Media:

It's important to remember that the relationship between different media tends to be complementary. When new media arrive they don't necessarily replace or eradicate previous types. Though we should perhaps observe a half second silence for the carbon record. - There that's done. What usually happens is that older media have to shuffle about a bit to make space for the new one and its particular advantages. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.


On Humans: (Quotes)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.





Epilogue:

It appears that i may have written several week's worth of blog-posts in one single blog. But I couldn't help myself, these ramblings have been in my head and written down wherever for a long time now, its been a long time coming and feels good to have in print. Or atleast in written base somewhere on the web.

P.S.> Sorry for the grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. Its 3A.M. and my eyes refuse confuse the squiggly red lines and my brain gives it as much passing thought as a fart in a windstorm.


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Listening to: Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
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