Feminists would hate me. Not that I hate feminists. I am a woman after all. I have a website where I sell stuff. I hate doing it but it makes more money than anything right now. I have another website where I draw cartoon porn. I actually worked in a strip club in Moncton when I was 19. Hated that too. Although I loathe seducing men for cash, I find it just as degrading as minimum wage work. Lets face it. This is North America. A capitalist society. As much freedom as women have we are still objectified by the media. I'm guilty of taking advantage of that. Did you know Abercrombie and Fitch makes underwear for kids? they make them in sizes for ages 10-16 but the smaller sizes could fit even younger girls. Isn't that fucked?
Corporations are owning us rather then working for us. They control most of the media, and most of the media in America and in many other places, is owned by Australian American Rupert Murdoch. He is one of the richest old fellas in the world. which brings me to another piss off. The U.S. is in debt forty eight trillion dollars, Canada a measly six hundred billion. America is one of the riches countries in the world but the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. And by America I mean the United States and Canada. If you ask me Canada has become an excuse to make more profit for the United states. We don't have any big Canadian owned corporations anymore. They're all 'American'.
The middle class is almost gone and most people are getting to know poverty. You hear more and more people having to choose between necessities like heat or food. Me and my boyfriend have to make that decision. We found out that the oil tank in our house goes through oil quite fast. A full tank costs $900. That's a lot when you consider how much living costs these days. It costs more then we can bring in. No wonder people get in debt so fast. We had to stop using it. It's so cold in some parts of the house that you can see your breath. American companies outsource to less developed countries to make more profit while people at home are getting layed off from the factories. The quickest way to fix this for America seems to be going to war.
Americas history with war
War in Which American Colonists or United States Citizens Officially Participated
July 4, 1675 -August 12, 1676
King Philip's War
New England Colonies vs. Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuck Indians
1689-1697
King William's War
The English Colonies vs. France
1702-1713
Queen Anne's War
The English Colonies vs. France
1744-1748
King George's War
The French Colonies vs. Great Britain
1756-1763
French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
The French Colonies vs. Great Britain
1759-1761
Cherokee War
English Colonists vs. Cherokee Indians
1775-1783
American Revolution
English Colonists vs. Great Britain
1798-1800
Franco-American Naval War
United States vs. France
1801-1805; 1815
Barbary Wars
United States vs. Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli
1812-1815
War of 1812
United States vs. Great Britain
1813-1814
Creek War
United States vs. Creek Indians
1836
War of Texas Independence
Texas vs. Mexico
1846-1848
Mexican War
United States vs. Mexico
1861-1865
Civil War
Union vs. Confederacy
1898
Spanish-American War
United States vs. Spain
1914-1918
World War I
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
1939-1945
World War II
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
1950-1953
Korean War
United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China
1960-1975
Vietnam War
United States and South Vietnam vs. North Vietnam
1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion
United States vs. Cuba
1983
Grenada
United States Intervention
1989
US Invasion of Panama
United States vs. Panama
1990-1991
Persian Gulf War
United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq
1995-1996
Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina
United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia
2003
Invasion of Iraq
United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq
Every generation in America has seen a different war. I wonder what country america will target next. Factory workers resort to making munitions for the army. Instead of joining the army and getting gang raped like Jamie Leigh Jones and thousands before her, I'd rather become a Mexican citizen and travel to America to work for a few months and then go home with my riches. I hear Mexico has beautiful beaches....
Although it's hard to make a living I do think people are spending to much. You don't really need all the things that are advertised to you. It's like the old saying goes, There's a sucker born every minute. Look at how jaded Christmas has gotten. It's a religious holiday for fuck sakes. Christmas has become a sales pitch with very little spirituality to be found. Time to spend with your family? Peace on earth? Good will towards man? No. Boxing day sales. Presents. Expensive technological presents. Advertisements will say its the giving that means something. Giving or getting, you're still giving them money. You have allot of power to change the world by where you spend your money. Sometimes you don't have to spend money at all. Make your own stuff. Get a hobby instead of shopping for fun. You'll have a richer life and you won't be in debt.
Wanna know how to stay out of debt and still have fun? Here's my advice;
$ Grow a garden If you can't because you live in an apartment, grow a few plants in pots.
$ Cook It does take more time and effort to cook but canned or frozen foods are gross. They usually have more salt and chemicals to preserve them. You'll be healthier and have more energy when you make home made food. You don't have to be a chef either. The simplest recipies taste the best.
$ Don't go to University UNLESS you're sure you can get a career after and pay that loan . I know a heap of people that went to school, and were better for it mind you, but still ended up working for minimum wage with nothing to show but university papers and a huge debt load. Know what the economy wants before you leap!!
$ Make your own stuff When christmas and birthdays roll around make something that you know would mean alot to your family and friends. Even as jaded as kids can be in the age of consumerisim and technology, if you try really hard to think of something you'll find it. When I was a kid, my friends got the newest stuff for christmas. My parents were going through a rough time with money so they made me a doll house. Parents used to make toys for there kids all through out history. I don't see why we have to stop now. For my grade 11 prom my mother made my prom dress. Everyone thought it was beautiful and asked where I got it. Be brave, be patient,make time and work hard for yourself and you will accomplish great things!
$Don't drive When you live in an urban area and your job is right next door, walk. If you live out of town, park your car in a central location when you gat there and walk to wherever you have to go. You'll get exersize and you won't be helping the demise of the world as we know it due to global warming.
You don't have to do these things all the time but they will help. They aren't convenient and time saving but you should make some sacrifice for humanity. Walmarts are bad for us. And the stuff you buy from them are cheap, made by labourers in a diferent country and are made to break!
As Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi would say "BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD."
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Rambling Rant On Capitalism and War (I think)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The Future Of Civilization
We're dead.
We deserve what's coming to us. I do too for not doing anything about it. Here is what I think the not so distant future is going to be like based on what's happening now:
People will have to wear gas masks to go outside. It will get hotter. Where tropical paradise used to be, there will be desert. Where desert used to be, there will be hotter and dryer desert. There won't be an ozone layer and when you go outside your skin will burn and blister and you'll get cancer right away from the radiation of the sun. People will have virtually no muscle mass due to technology always moving for them. Everyone will be on medication to be able to get through how stressful and fast paced and long work has become. Children will have to take a specific drug to concentrate and ignore all the distractions of modern life and ignore their youthful energy. There will be no leisure time to get to know anyone. Communication will be discouraged because it will effect productivity. Families won't exist. Only certain people with specific good looks and immunities to deadly viruses will be selected for breeding. These people will be ordered to breed frequently until they all no longer fertile. It will be done by artificial insemination and the fetus will be grown in an artificial womb. Everyone will be germaphobic because of all the viruses that have mutated to overcome vaccinations and the plagues that have returned from heat waves. The only sexual pleasure will be virtually online or with real looking sex dolls. Masturbation will be prohibited because we will be under surveillance in our apartments. These apartments will be very small and cramped. However 6 or 7 people will live in them to help pay the very expensive rent. The apartments will be called Human storage. The working class will often be called the Human resource by the wealthy, who use them as slaves to build there utopias and clean their Bio domes.( the wealthy will live in huge domes with no toxins in the air or water. The gardens and parks will be lush and fertile with some species of animals that have been salvaged by scientists.) Every species of animal will be extinct except for house cats and dogs. Human beings will follow in extinction soon after because of the loss of intelligence passed on, along with the instinct to love and deal with children. This loss of intelligence came mostly from the lack of needing to think from technology. Government and corporation will be responsible for this mostly because it's easier to control people when they're stupid. This will be in the government's favor at first but as stupidity of people gets passed on from generation to generation the size of the cranium shrinks because the intelligence is no longer needed. The brain will shrink to do more repetitive tasks similar to ants. Breed, work, and fight against ants of different race to make a strong colony for the Queen. You'll have to buy everything because everything will be controlled by government and corporations. Money will not exist and your bank account will always be under surveillance to make sure you always make a certain amount. You'll have to buy everything that used to come free with life. Water, Oxygen, love, Sex, school, sleep etc. Oh, wait, we already pay for everything that used to be free.
Allot of the shit I mentioned is already happening in some places.
I met up with an alien recently, that has traveled through time. Here is what he said in an interview I gave him last week.
ME: So what time do you live in? Or what time are you from?
Alien:To you our species has become what it is now, in 129 499 378 774 188 BC, but we have evolved frontal lobes that are much more advanced then yours. We have figured out a way to live in many different times and communicate through them.
ME: You must be quite smart. Can you hear what I'm thinking?
Alien:Yes. And no, we aren't going to invade your planet. We live on loads of other planets that haven't been so fucked up.
Me:How far can you travel through time?
Alien:There is no limit to time and space. It goes on for infinity. You humans only think of things as having beginnings and endings because you are born and then die. Time is actually something you invented to measure the rate of which things live and die so to speak. A human with an unusually large frontal lobe knew this once. I believe you called him Albert Einstein. You mostly seem to think of him as an equation. We have used this equation many times to go where we want. You have used most of his knowledge for making weapons of mass destruction. The math of time would have become quite useful to you.
ME: What do you mean would have?
Alien: My species has been to your future to see your demise. You collapsed your own civilizations from your own greed and ignorance. The human race could have had so much potential. They could have thrived for millions of years. They could have travelled to distant galaxies, travelled through time, to different dimensions even, find life in other places, stop the sun from going super nova, stop a giant asteroid from crashing into earth again, stop the giant black hole from devouring space to make other galaxies. They could have even made their own galaxies. Instead they stopped themselves. The bio domes you made to survive had a flaw in them. You humans have a trend of taking everything for yourself and leaving none for the next generation. This is what you did on earth and then in the domes and then in the domes you made on your moon and mars. By the time you colonized mars there was very few of you left to survive. Viruses that you were once immune to made you ill and die. By then you lost your desire to procreate due to your flawed technology and you couldn't breed as fast as you were going extinct. It's a shame. You humans are an intelligent animal but like most animals on your planet you are territorial. Your instinct to dominate surpassed your instinct to nurture. Your last human was a janitor. He was immune to most things as you can probably guess. He lived to be 35 and died in 3499.
More and more people are suffering from depression, cancer, asthma and stupidity.
I was listening to the CBC the other day and a scientist was talking about how whenever a new technological discovery is made there is no question of whether it could have harmful effects on people on the Earth or not. It is simply released into the Economy. Most likely it is tested and released flaws and all. But only the wealthy are able to afford electric cars that are dent and smash proof. They don't make cars perfectly death proof because they want you to give them lots of money by repairing and replacing them. This is the same for most consumer goods that are outsourced to other countries to be cheaply made.
This has a bad effect on our planet. Notice that most of the worlds powerful people are old? These old fellows pretty much take what they want and don't think of there children's future. We suck too. 100 years ago if everyone knew that cars would be such a horrible polluter and dangerous for people to drive (and for animals to become road kill).....NO ONE WOULD DRIVE!! And we would survive.
You bastards need to see this shit for yourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Everyones a hypocrite.
Everyones a hypocrite. I complain that people should be nicer to one another and here I am bashing my fellow man. It sure is fun though!
If you're a vegetarian chances are I will not like you because I think you're kind of dumb. I understand that you should know where your meat is coming from and if it's from an animal that's been treated kindly through out it's life. Why then, can't we just ask for better agriculture? You can't just say it's cruel to eat meat because an animal shouldn't die to give you food. What If you're starving to death? Next thing you'll been on a wolves case because it preyed upon a rabbit. Or a person in a third world country ate their neighbours cat. Human beings are omnivores. We survived by eating anything that walks, crawls, flys and grows. Animals eat animals. Humans are animals. Some animals eat humans. That's nature. Weather it's a plant or an animal something must DIE in order to feed us.
If you think it's wrong to eat meat because animals are God's creatures and we should love them, not eat them, then it becomes about morals and religious beliefs. Not anyone believes in God, and there are thousands of religions. you can't force your beliefs on others. If you think we shouldn't eat meat because the effects it has on the environment then you should stop driving, shopping in large corporate retail stores, only eat things that come in a biodegradable bag, and live without electricity. Because I can guarantee you're assisting in global warming. Oh yes and think of how many millions of animals are hit by cars every day. If you're truly animal friendly then you wouldn't drive because there's too much risk involved. If you think that we shouldn't eat meat because it's bad for you then you should read more. Meat is an excellent source of iron and protein. If you have to take supplements to get more iron in your blood because you're anemic then something is wrong there. You can get replacements for meat easily but a lot of these replacements imitate meat. Which is kind of messed up. You want to eat something that imitates cooked flesh...nasty! I've heard some vegetarians say that because of the way farmers and butchers process meat, there may be a little bit of the animal's poo in the packaging. Well if you haven't noticed most plants we eat thrive from fertilizer.
Make sure what you're reading is neutral about the subject of meat, vegetarianism or veganisim because if they aren't they could just be trying to promote their company. I've read university studies that indicate meat contains chemicals that make you smarter, have a quicker reaction time and a stronger immune system. I'm not saying vegans are the enemy, I just think we should have a balanced diet, low in trans and saturated fat and live healthy lives without bitching about peoples poor morals when everyones a hypocrite.
There are terrible things happening in North America and around the globe that effect not only animals but people and the environment. Most people focus on the little things when we should be looking at how to fix the BIG problems. I should apologise for saying I don't like vegetarians earlier in the Blog. What I should have said was I don't like it when people discriminate others for the way they live. Not all meat eaters eat at McDonald's and die at 60 from heart disease and obesity. Not all vegetarians eat tofu and go to nudist colonies. So lets all get along so we can work on building colonies on the moon for when the earth is no longer habitable.
Oh, and check out my cute poke at vegetarians on a shirt I made called Veggie Murder!