Instant Karma

wow what to do after the celebrations of my 126 post glory.

i know, i'll bloviate andexpound on many issues ravagin my mind today.

At first I was a liberal. That’s little l liberal. (in australia for my yankee readers the Liberal party is actually the conservative party, they are considered the liberal party because they are for a free market place, just as the labour party is for a free country)

Perhaps it was from my parents, or the PC culture of the curriculum in class. But, I was taught humanity is a group effort, and no one should be left behind. I used to listen simon and garfunkle and john lennon records, just as I’m listening to lennon now. Mother is my favourite song of all time. The ambivalence of being a parent or a child. It’s such a huge emotion, and somehow lennon wxpressed it in 3 minutes. So after feeling the love, I turned around 18 and saw that some people can do bad things, and you have to watch out for yourself in this harsh world. And it just seems like some people seem to have more to offer to society than others. So I turned to thinking that perhaps my parents aren’t right, and perhaps the survival of the fittest is true. So that led me to believing in conservative economic theory, where, lke magaret thatcher says, ‘I will not let the socialist taxes affect the enterprise of those who want to succeed.’ I could see that some people just offer more, they are smarter or whatever, and they shouldn’t have to carry the whole weight of those who don’t have shit to offer and sniff petrol all day. I mean obviously some tax benefit needs to go the poor, but to create a socialist paradise where everyone starts to have equal footing in the ultimate eyes of the liberal, I just couldn’t then see any motive for success. Like taking it to the extreme, in communism, where is the benefit for someone to invent something, if there is no economic will. Because you might as well be a janitor, if you are not going to gain royalties and such for your invention. But that is an obvious extreme.

And the reason why I write this blog, is because a little of my hippy side has re-emerged. But the rational mind still rules. But as a culmination, perhaps you can then see why I support the iraq war. As a pursuit that puts every person on the same level, and the same right to a freedom. An idealogical world of happiness, how absurd that sounds is my goal. A world where anyone can grow up and have the same privileges and education and etc, as myself. And I also see that world in rational terms as something that has to be worked hard for, really fucking hard. So, anyway that is why I believe the things I do. And watching a biography on margaret thatcher tonight has sort of re ignited my political flame. It’s like when yo uhear music and yo ujust know that that is who you are, well I hear some of the shit thatcher said, and it just is me. I believe that within certain boundaries one should be able to have limitless expression of their economic and spiritual dreams. Which ultimately leads to a few, and those few being resented. I would like to outline my vision of a stable country but I fear that would go too far. It would be a very existential, yet family oriented view of the world. But all that is bullshit, you can only see the world for what it is, and I see the world as needing a big hug. Right now I’m up to track 7 on my lennon album, love is needing love, lennon freaking rules.

Anyway, also i was watching australias next top modelt he finale and it sucks, freaking alice won. The girl who blew in from a strong southerly. Wow, and what on earth was ian thorpe doing there, the dude quit right before beijing, for some unknown reason, wait I have the reason, he is gay (not to take away from gay readers) he quit swimming right before a big event to go into the world of fashion, and he talks more like a fag than anyone ive ever heard. Seriously thorpe, yo uquit swimming, for fucks sake, and stone the crows (I bet my american readers don’t know what stone the crows is) just come out. Who quits a certain gold medal at the 2008 games to join a freaking fashion show, ill tell you, a stereotypical flaming queer like ian thorpe. I don’t care, just be who yo uare thorpey. I could tell when he chose another model over steph h, when no bloke in their right mind would choose any girl over steph or anika whom they describe as having the face of an angel and the body of sin. Now im listening to working class man, now I loved this song way before last week when greenday did a cover to highlight the suffering in darfur, and now I mention it I have never highlighted that suffering, which I would like to highlight now.

Its hard to come up with an answer, because any answer means taking the side of one of the four or so factions, which means condoning what they have done, and that is why greenday take the cop out of just saying lets send the UN in as mediators, which means it will be like iraq. And iraq might work but it will take a lot of bloodshed, it has taken 0.1% of the american armed services so far, that is 3,000 in 3 million troops which would be 54 australian troops on the same percentile of us having a total of 54,000 troops. And also take into consideration that 70% of American deaths are from improvised explosive devices. IED’s. And that in a vehicle that is equipped for it, I forget the name, but it isn’t a the over loaded humvee, it is the apc or something, and it is designed to take such blasts without fatalities, so already, if the yanks had those, WHICH THEY COULD, they would only have 30 % of their current deaths. They are trying to rush 7000 to the battlefield now, but fuck how late do they want to be. They have the worlds eyes on them, and all they do is put extra plating on the humvees’ which weighs them down and doesn’t do shit against IEDs. So imagine if they had vehicles like the australians. Our blokes got hit the other and no one died , yet if they were in a humvee they would have died. See they have a ‘v’ shaped hull as opposed to humvees flat shape, and the v deflects the blast. So fucking hell america, I think if you’re going to do it, do it fucking right. How long does it take to realize the threatof IED’s and then protect the troops. You’ve had four years and only now are yo rushing in with the new vehicles. That’s funny I should be writing about this, while ‘all we are saying is give peace a chance’ is playing on my lennon cd. He wrote it on his bed in. And only a year later, during a vietnam protest did it catch on. Anyway, I have had too many ports to remember what I was talking about, so screw you all.

And i want to let everyone know that i have a big, and i mean big post about the afterlife coming up. So anyone interested in death, or what happens when our heart stops, or if a heaven exists, please stay tuned.