Significance

We are a plagued society. Plagued by the idea that there is something better out there. That our lives can somehow be better then they are now. Hoping life is somehow more significant then it seems to be now. For some whose hope clouds their own judgment, life will never bring them the release from the drudgery they face on a daily basis.

However, some don’t feel this sentiment and are happy with whom they are. It seems on the diametric scale, we as humans tend to move fluidly up and down throughout the courses of our lives. The scale ranges from being pleased with ones station in life, to being plagued by the idea that we are not living up to our potential or that we are somehow insignificant to the world (not pleased). This feel tends to manifest itself as a hole in our lives. One of the most popular ways to fill this hole is by escaping into a world of fictional fantasy. The stories are familiar and yet diverse in their portrayal of alternative lives. Lives that we are potentially searching for. I have mulled this escapist sentiment in my head for the last few months and have hence written to you all about what I’ve been philosophizing.

The fiction can be a simple as a scenario of being LOST on a mysterious deserted island, or it can be complex, whereby we have extraordinary powers that allow us to become HEROES to society. Still at the core of these escapist fantasies is our inability to feel important in our real world lives, and how these stories allow us to see a life that transcends the monotony we face in reality. Otherwise why would we have to imagine ourselves in these fantasies? How many times have you imagined that if your life was just slightly different you could fulfill a potential that the lack of said difference is not allowing? That maybe if you had made a slightly different choice, your life would somehow be more satisfying. What is at the bottom of all this? Is it just that life in reality sucks, or is it more innate then this?

Often times I wonder about ancient humankind and if the lives of daily humans where riddled with the same type of desire. How long has the grass been greener on the other side? Or is that idea a product of modern (post industrial revolution) life, not shared by our ancestors whose lives were filled with a constant struggle to survive? In a certain sense I would argue the latter point, that we have the free time now to wonder how life could be better, that humans half a millennium ago had their lives filled with enough toil to make them feel satisfied, or potentially be distracted from how mundane life was (if it was). If you ever get the chance to work land in order to eat, you feel more satisfied that your work has gone towards something important. At least I do. Maybe that too is a factor in this phenomenon. How many people in this day and age see the final effect of their work, and how significant it really is?

The idea of superhuman powers and abilities has attracted my interest since I was a young boy. Enough that one of my most popular questions I ask people is precisely: “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” You can learn quite a deal about a person’s desires and goals based on their answer to this question. That is if they are fun enough to know what I mean by superpower. I also have put quite a descent amount of thought into what my power would be: the ability to absorb/copy all the information in a persons mind by only touching them. I am a sucker for honesty, so of course my power involves seeing a person for what they are, and not how they present themselves via a corporeal existence. It also involves learning things about people that I would never get the chance to under normal circumstances, including but not limited to immediately learning their tongue/language. Could you image the type of relief a person might feel when a complete stranger could literally speak their language after only meeting them (and shaking hands of course, which I understand would make it hard for me to “absorb” some people based on their cultural background)?

But I don’t want to dwell on that in this blog. That is I don’t want to condone losing yourself in a fantasy world rather then come to terms with the real one. In fact I posit forth the idea that we all have “powers”, just not in the traditional comic book sense. Everyone has semi-unique abilities that, while many might share, not every human has. These are generally referred to as “skills”. In my opinion everyone has skills, whether or not they recognize those skills or not is a different story. Fore example: some musicians can play-by-ear, whereby they can listen to a song and play it back for you, often times having only heard the song once. Some people have a natural sense of others and glide through society with ease, while others find themselves at constant odds with people. Some people are good at math, while others are good at English. These are only small examples of our unique abilities that we take for granted everyday. I count myself lucky that I was personally born with a number of gifts, many of which I am currently squandering. At the same time I can see the powers others have, often when they can’t recognize it for themselves (one of my powers).

That is a challenge that I would like to put forth to you, my readers, all five of you. If you can’t see the importance of your life, and how your work is significant, I challenge you to seek out that significance. Look inside yourself to see what powers you have, and whether you’re happy with how you are using said powers.

So Dubbah is prepping for his Invasion on Iran. Scheduled to roll out this week, so if you're not like me and have cable, be prepared to hear a lot about how messed up Iran is, and how Tehrah is the "new" center for the Anti-american/terrorist community.

Of course this is all bullshit, and of course mostly packed with lies and sensationalism. But that is what makes it so fun, right?

So a little background and predictions on how this might affect our future in this country:

In case this is the only one of my blogs you've read, as highly unlikely it might be, and how highly unlucky you are to be reading such a politically center grouping of words, I have mentioned war with Iran in previous posts.

So, shortly after starting to "rebuild" Iraq, within the second year of being there, it was quite obvious to most folks that Iran was next on the short list of countries bush wants to annihilate. To the few who read as much information as possible, it was apparent that Iran was always a target in the overall "War on Terror" model since before the beginning. Why, you might ask? Based on the moves of the current administration, "why not?" Iran represents everything that the bushies hate. The president is fairly decent person who likes to start waves in the UN against the fascist-imperial-american-state, which any decent person should do. He wants to establish a nuclear power program in his country because NUCLEAR POWER WORKS. Against the common misconceptions, nuclear power is clean, efficient and fairly readily producible for a majority of the countries of this planet. In america however, during the era of decent that folks have in recent times begun to forget (the 50's-70's), the Oil companies spread a little information on how evil nuclear power was, and with a few sabotaged power stations had the fodder to smear the good name of nuclear power. Countries like France, you gotta love the dissenting and generally well intentioned rebels known as the French, said "*cough* BULLSHIT *cough* *cough*" and created their own nuclear programs. France's national power is 70% provided by Nuclear power for the last few decades at least. So Iran wants to start up too. While I would personally push for the development of ambient energy within all countries, Christmas is still a few months away so I'll back off.

Maybe not: with a concerted effort, large scale ambient power companies could easily be "graphed" onto existing power grids to provide free clean energy to millions of people with the only cost going into the production of the plants, and at most one person to monitor them. Let alone a large scale production of individual power boxes that could be provides to "off grid" persons who carried about the planet enough to make a statement against the power elite….

I digress… So of course the boy emperor knows all about Iran's plans, and isn't having it. We can't do much about France, but luckily they are a joke to most americans. In fact I would be willing to argue that most of the region is a joke to americans, but for some reason Iran developing a nuclear program just seems against god's will…or something. Regardless, there has been a rather large Navy fleet (when I heard about there departure last October, the fleet included four aircraft careers, which are the bread and butter of naval operations and come with a rather large complimentary force to protect them) cruising the Persian Gulf since last year (officially). Poised and waiting for any excuse to obliterate Iran, or any other trouble makers, the operations look to be going into effect this week. Bush is of course is unilaterally making a mess of the whole region, and with little explanation really. Somewhere along the line, before the war against Iraq began, congress decided that they were a bunch of spineless sea urchins, wait I take that back because I actually respect spineless sea urchins, and are allowing this dude and his cabinet to go around breaking constitutional and congressional mandates, which of course the most blatant disregard comes in the area of requiring congresses approval to declare war. The wording of course is unless dire emergency, which made the crashing of planes into american buildings a necessity. Since then (and actually since the second world war if you look at it) presidents have had this weird control. The weird part of course is that they are supposed to be representative of the american people, yet they are allowed to live outside of the laws that government and restrict said americans. I'll have to go back and look in my notes from school, but I think that's called fascism. Right?

…. Okay, so with some predictions cause the rambling is out of control. I predicted last year that the POTUS (piece of total unadulterated shit) would strategically poise the war against Iran at a crucial point in his presidency for one sole reason. This asshole could potentially use war anywhere, but most likely with Iran, to declare a state of emergency, put himself at the reigns of a Marshal Law coup de grâce, allowing the 2008 elections to be postponed. This sounds crazy right, well it should. However it is totally possible and written into the constitution of this country. The original intention of course being that if for some unforeseen reasons, we happen to be at war or in a state of emergency, elections would be highly disruptive and nearly impossible to survive politically. After all, how is a president supposed to protect democracy while attending political debates? Dubbah could potentially set at the helm for as long as the state of emergency is effective. This would totally suck, and unfortunately I'm not crazy enough to see it as an impossibility (i.e. I won't be surprised if it happens). Short of getting impeached this week, Bush ain't got shit to worry about.

We are in a war with terror, war with drugs (I think still…right?), war with our brethren across the various ponds and we are at war with ourselves. We are in an invisible, and seldom discussed national economic depression. The country borrows $2Billion a day and spends $0.5Billion on warfare. A DAY!! Most people are completely oblivious to these realities. Some due to sheer blindsiding by the american media, some just don't want to deal with it because their life sucks so bad they spend all their energy trying to get through the day.

We are in a disparaging place this little world of ours. We are faced with a primal desire to live our lives. Of course this basic part of us drives the uglier parts, when hurting people becomes your life. At what point is living your life not good enough, when the lives of others become more important? Will the masses ever realize that we will have to live at peace with other people, let alone the environment that we trash on a minute-by-minute basis, in order to survive the next millennia? According to the smartest people on the planet, we are stuck here with our current technological limitations, which means going to fuck up another planet is not an option. (Unfortunately those smarties are Russian, and america could give a flying fuck about Russians)

This is a depressing time yall, but we have to stick to the bigger picture and try a forge a future for the life on this planet, or believe me it will find a way to purge our destructive species for good.

One more thing real quick, and this is not my prediction, but that of some smarter political analysts. Some folks believe that if dubbah strikes Iran, he will instigate WWIII. I don't think the world has the guts to do this, or they would have when the boy emperor first declared war on the decency of the human race….

As always, go read about it for yourself. Don't trust my crazy ass for anything. I believe america faked the moon landing for crying out loud!!!