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I have found that people who define themselves by their interests alone tend to be those who are most bitter and most spiteful. This may be because they, in declaring undying faith to their interests, automatically reject people who in any way contradict the ideas of their interests, such as how diehard football fanatics feud with each other based on the clubs they support, and how those who consider themselves indie film enthusiasts criticise lovers of mainstream movies or films of less esoteric and eclectic natures.
Could it be possible, then, that admiring something beyond the extent of simply liking and enjoying it leaves a seed of elitism in many of us?
It’s 4.15 a.m. I will need all the sleep I can get to be energetic enough for all those politicians with their feigned smiles tomorrow. Goodness. None of these people give a bleeding shit about starving children and the injustice of the law. You think that’s just something that people say about politicians, but then you spend seven years of your life around them and you realize it’s the utter ugly truth.
When I was a child, even before my father got elected, I used to be the one who volunteered to sweep the classroom floors. You had to force everyone else to help clean up, but I’d be the first to volunteer, the first to reach for the broom. For some reason this attracted amusement and disapproval from my teachers and classmates.
I ask you now,
What shame is there in manual labor?
You know what a fat Swiss kid said to me once amidst the ruckus of the school lunch hall?
He said to me,
“We all die sooner or later. Might as well die eating good food.”
I think an angel sat with me that day.
If I hear another person saying that the mindless violence and the filthy opportunism of the London rioters are justified, I will get a giant bag of horse shit and make you smell it.
Apologies for the long absence that none of you have noticed. I dropped my laptop and it had to be fixed, naturally. I’ll be away for a few more days, so in lieu of a lineup of QuAlItY tUmBoNeR p05ts, I give you this question to ponder for the time being: why am I eating instant noodles while watching videos of tarantulas eating tiny creatures at 3 am?
I used to think that people who say “Fuck the system” are idiots who don’t even understand or mean what they’re saying.
And don’t get me wrong, some of those people are just that. (But then again, there are corrupt politicians, discriminatory judges and money-chasing lawyers. Go figure.)
But then I began to think about what the system is.
What is the system, exactly? Fools say it’s there to keep everything together. The law. Social norms. Fashion trends. It is true in some parts that these things keep society stable: without the law there would be no punishment for crime, there would be no justice, et cetera.
On the other hand, who’s to say which crimes should be punished, who’s to say how they should be punished, who’s to say what a crime even is? Do social norms play a part in determining what constitutes a crime?
Evidently, yes, they do.
After a long, ponderous conversation with an old friend about why the law should be respected at all times, I had a change of mind. (Change of heart? Change of mind? I don’t know the difference anymore.)
I had been, to the very core of my soul, a respectful citizen up to that point. I have lived nearly eighteen years, and in that short - or insanely long - amount of time, I have seen the law being used not to build fair communities, but to manipulate and sometimes destroy the welfare and rights of individuals. I’ve seen the law being used to:
- rape innocent women
- imprison people who needed medical treatment
- shoot down desperate youths in public
- lawfully murder murderers (I don’t need to provide a link for this one; just Google ‘capital punishment’)
- arrest people for wearing the wrong clothes
Perhaps I’ve made my conclusion too soon. Perhaps, since I am young, there’s more for me to learn. But right now I think and feel that there is something dangerous about a system that has total control over each and every one of us, a system that may change its mind about anything at any time and decide to slowly strip each of us of our rights, little by little. It’s happening all over the world.
One day I want to confront a racist in public and make him/her realize how utterly stupid he/she is
Having one of those mad moments in which I want to physically hurt someone. With my left hand. I want to dig into someone’s eye with my left hand.
That’s all very well, but there’s more to them than “gasp oh no you didn’t” and, I quote a girl on Facebook, “I am such a boss - reading Lolita”.
A fan? Goodness, I have a fan? O.O
Ahh, Israel.
Well, I don’t care about its relationship with the US as much as I care about its relationship with Palestine. That is the main sore point for me. (See: argument I had with someone once on why I think Israel should leave Palestine alone. She seemed to have a problem with this. You may also want to have a look at this post.)
I listed all the reasons there, but in case you don’t feel like reading through it all, here it is in a nutshell: Israeli gangs running amok around Palestine and terrorizing people with the Israeli government doing next to nothing about them, the Israeli government continuously developing housing projects on Palestinian land despite orders from the United Nations to stop, and Israel’s attitude in general towards Palestine’s rights as an independent country and its resistance of United Nations peacekeeping attempts.
Israel has not displayed any support for international justice in my view. All it cares about is its own welfare, even if it may come at the expense of millions of lives belonging not only to Palestinians but also to its own civilians. Something needs to be done about it. This is where some pressure from President Obama would come in handy, though I suppose he has enough on his plate as it is.
