This, too ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's enough silence. Time for a rant. Yay? Dad's off watching Bob Dylan not playing his guitar. I feel a little sick from eating too much in the way of egg and chips and then freezing bits off me off in the process of going out to buy cheap booze. Now I am watching Peep Show. How are you? I have recently spent too much time being frustrated by the inability of every fucker in the universe to modify their position or opinion on a subject after conceeding that I've pissed all over their old one. Worse yet, refusing to accept that I have when a cavefish would be able to see it. In person it's hard enough to avoid slapping people when they say something incredibly stupid, "Bad human being! Bad!" but on-line it seems more important. I all kinds of don't-approve when it comes to all that it's like competing at the special olympics stuff. You know, arguing on the internet... even if you win, you're still retarded... yeah. That ought to be associated with Godwin's Law, or the off-shoot there of dictating that anybody who tries to draw a parallel to Hitler and the Nazis automatically loses for being a chump. No trying to walk away with your idiotic and harmful opinions intact just because you think logic conveyed to you via the internet is switched-off along with your computer, you fucker! Yeah, that'll be my point for the day. Arguing on the internet seems pointless... until you actually fucking learn something! Then it's worth accepting and taking away with you, god damn it! How does one engage with a simpleton? From what frame of reference? I don't want to believe that people are so dense as they seem. "Mark, do you have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?" -------------------- As I typed part of this, the part during the typing of which I was not watching Peep Show, I was half-watching a documentary on... well, it's a bit vague... it was supposed to be about the rise of Pol Pot, but I don't think it has a clue whether it's about the man, the Khmer Rouge, Angkar, the killing fields, but one thing it's not mentioning is the context against which all of it ought to be set. Shh, nobody mention the illegal secretly-kill-a-few-hundred-thousand-unsuspecting-people-make-the-land-unworkable-and-call-it-democracy American carpet bombing! The BBC ought to be better than this. This is old Channel 5 quality. One day, somebody will make a decent documentary film, and I won't punch them in the face... except that they should have fucking done it a long time ago, and I probably will. -------------------- Ah, well, feck television, then. Where was I? Internet, eh? Yeah. It's important, and the idea that we can't or shouldn't argue and debate over it is almost enough to make me use it to buy illegal weapons and track people down. This crappy age of ours, which may be the last before we destroy humanity and most of its floral and faunal contemporaries, is supposed to be the apex in terms of productivity and freedom. Which isn't at all naive or arrogant in itself, now, is it? Except, yeah, it really fucking is. I can't believe that people still buy it. The free market isn't actually a fat man with a crown, and suddenly everyone's back to being fooled? Anyhoo, yeah, the rate of invention is right down, as I understand it, all we do these days is put clocks in radios, music in phones, motors in beds, cameras in phones, DVDs in cars, the internet in... phones, and none of it improves lives or solves the problems created by the rate of consumption encouraged by the market! It pisses me off no end. And then people tell me that the internet is not the place to discuss it. Shits! I'll kill you all! The internet is probably the last significant innovation of the bourgeois age and perhaps the best tool for dialogue between people. And if science is to save us (sidebar, people accepting any mode of production/governance as realistic [if not always moral] save for communism really pisses me off when the likes of the technocracy are what we can actually see falling apart in front of our eyes) then, considering that we're innovating at a pre-industral rate and falling, it might just be through the fricking internet. Long story short, if you interrupt somebody else's serious political/economic argument/debate/discussion or try to get out of your losing side of such just because it's on-line and doesn't count, I'm going to... pick randomly between making you redundant, working you like a bitch for sixty years, or chaining you to a sewing machine for eighteen hours a day. [shakes fist] Yesss, it's all well and good to say, Fyneehhh, you wouldn't say that if you grew-up in Russia if you didnt' grow up in a fucking factory in China, isn' it? That'll do, I'm going to get my booze, maybe it'll make Phoenix Nights watchable. Probably not. Might just read a book. That's enough. 10:54 p.m. - 2005-11-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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