Hey, when are you going to write about 2 impending wars based on the spread of nuclear weapons? Prez sez Iran will have one in a year. How does he know that and what’s to be done about it? Also, does life go on as usual once the first war to prevent the cessation of all human life begins?
I’m probably not writing about it because I prefer not to think about it 😉 I have to admit that the whole North Korea nuke thing makes me slightly nervous, since we’re over here hanging out on the West Coast and all that. I seriously hope that the new Kim Jung is just blowing hot air about it.
Yeah, hmn, there’s seems, as there has always been, a small cadre of assholes who “lead” the rest of us to our slaughter. I don’t get the general sense that most folks on this planet want much more than to be a bit happy, safe, prosperous and to see that continue into the future. Why then do we end up with such meglomaniacs leading us into hell every generation or so? Kim Jung? Doesn’t anyone over there think they’d be better served buy just blowing a hole in his head and starting the reset button? What’s to gain w/ a nuclear war? The entire planet burns, all of us, everything stops and noone w/ out a private army survives. That we could even consider this as being viable is shocking, disgusting, insane. Ruthless, complete planetary disarmament is they only way to survive, but then I’m just an idiot in Portland, Oregon who likes to make art. What do I know? Only that’s there’s billions of others like me now and throughout history who never had a whit of interest dying for someone else’s ambitions. Yep.
Yeah, I really have to wonder about the concept that most people just want to live their life in peace and be left alone. There have not only been plenty of crazy and destructive political leaders–there have also been large and crazy mobs supporting them. I’m not sure where this comes from. Perhaps we are genetically programmed to worship something or someone–sometimes it’s a Pope, sometimes a Kim Jung? And it becomes a truly dangerous situation when the crowd believes that the worshipped object or person is worth dying or killing for–or destroying the world….
We’re too stupid as humans to possess the armaments we’ve created. The smartest among us gave the greatest killing devices to the most venal. We’re all short-timers in a sense.
Heard a radio commerical for buying US savings bonds last night and chuckled. 18-yr bonds. Wondered for a moment if it was satirical. May as well have been.
Ah, the human being–that cursed mixture of animal and angel. Too complicated to just be happy with the food and the sex, too overtaken by base instincts to reach a higher purpose.
You don’t think we’ll be here in 18 years, hunh? Read an apropos Facebook status today: “I have bad news for all of you–the world is never going to end.”
03/14/2013 at 12:00 am
Yep, or compare yourself to Jesus on the cross when you can’t get a 40 ounce Shasta.
Same idiot genius stupidity, if yaknowwhatimean.
03/14/2013 at 7:31 am
It does seem very First World Problems to me.
03/15/2013 at 7:03 pm
Hey, when are you going to write about 2 impending wars based on the spread of nuclear weapons? Prez sez Iran will have one in a year. How does he know that and what’s to be done about it? Also, does life go on as usual once the first war to prevent the cessation of all human life begins?
Big thoughts!
Mr. Wonka might have some insights…
03/17/2013 at 8:43 pm
I’m probably not writing about it because I prefer not to think about it 😉 I have to admit that the whole North Korea nuke thing makes me slightly nervous, since we’re over here hanging out on the West Coast and all that. I seriously hope that the new Kim Jung is just blowing hot air about it.
03/17/2013 at 9:12 pm
Yeah, hmn, there’s seems, as there has always been, a small cadre of assholes who “lead” the rest of us to our slaughter. I don’t get the general sense that most folks on this planet want much more than to be a bit happy, safe, prosperous and to see that continue into the future. Why then do we end up with such meglomaniacs leading us into hell every generation or so? Kim Jung? Doesn’t anyone over there think they’d be better served buy just blowing a hole in his head and starting the reset button? What’s to gain w/ a nuclear war? The entire planet burns, all of us, everything stops and noone w/ out a private army survives. That we could even consider this as being viable is shocking, disgusting, insane. Ruthless, complete planetary disarmament is they only way to survive, but then I’m just an idiot in Portland, Oregon who likes to make art. What do I know? Only that’s there’s billions of others like me now and throughout history who never had a whit of interest dying for someone else’s ambitions. Yep.
03/18/2013 at 4:07 pm
Yeah, I really have to wonder about the concept that most people just want to live their life in peace and be left alone. There have not only been plenty of crazy and destructive political leaders–there have also been large and crazy mobs supporting them. I’m not sure where this comes from. Perhaps we are genetically programmed to worship something or someone–sometimes it’s a Pope, sometimes a Kim Jung? And it becomes a truly dangerous situation when the crowd believes that the worshipped object or person is worth dying or killing for–or destroying the world….
03/19/2013 at 9:21 am
We’re too stupid as humans to possess the armaments we’ve created. The smartest among us gave the greatest killing devices to the most venal. We’re all short-timers in a sense.
Heard a radio commerical for buying US savings bonds last night and chuckled. 18-yr bonds. Wondered for a moment if it was satirical. May as well have been.
03/19/2013 at 7:48 pm
Ah, the human being–that cursed mixture of animal and angel. Too complicated to just be happy with the food and the sex, too overtaken by base instincts to reach a higher purpose.
You don’t think we’ll be here in 18 years, hunh? Read an apropos Facebook status today: “I have bad news for all of you–the world is never going to end.”
03/20/2013 at 4:25 am
Yeah world will never end, just us.
All those card-carrying “The World is Going to End” never really had it quite right.