censorship? like what are we nazi germany?
i'm not actually american, so this probably won't affect (i just spent ten minutes trying to decide which version of this word to use and it's probably still the wrong one) me...
but do you know what is american?
YOUTUBE.
and twitter.
and tumblr.
and facebook, but i wouldn't really miss that shit much.
YOUTUBE though people. it is a human right to be able to view charlie mcdonnell's ever increasing sexiness via video blogging.
no but really, surely 'freedom to knowledge' as wikipedia is putting it is actually a human right. we should be allowed to learn, and find out things we want to know. and yeah, we have books (which i heart, btw) but we also have this incredibly massive high speed magic trick that allows us to learn anything we want called the internet. it's progress. and why would you take that away?
'piracy' my arse.
how many people use the internet to research new music artists/films? publicity isn't piracy. when those artists then benefit greatly from the fame. or all the adverts that you spam the sides of our browsers with?
censorship is bad. any person in vague possession of any historical knowledge whatsoever knows this. hitler censors germany's media for years.. and what happened then? they knew nothing other than what he wanted him to know. they then voted him in. he took control. BAM. HOLOCAUST. massacre. badness. world suck.
so the us congress needs to get over themselves and focus on something more important, something that will DECREASE rather than increase world suck. like ending world hunger.
Showing posts with label decrease world suck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decrease world suck. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
hey, i probably don't like you.
it's not personal or anything, but you probably suck.
humans in general do.
and if you don't i applaud you, for having the strength (an appropriate word i suppose?) to be not suckish.
suckish as a definition:
those people who follow the crowd, like gormless sheep. they all do exactly the same things and then complain that said thing is 'rinsed.' facebook is the prime example of this. not the site itself, it just highlights everything you hate about the people you know. like when people say things like, "need a boyf for winter:(" or "text me i need numbers."
i genuinly lost the will to live a few months ago while in the school bathrooms. some bimbo girl was putting on her face paste (make up) and her concerned friend suggested she tone it down as it was looking slightly orange under the light. her reply, and i am NOT fabricating this at all. her reply was.. "oh, it's okay i like to look a bit orange." LIKE. she LIKES to LOOK ORANGE.
the world isn't even worth living in if this is what people are like.
i always thought the orange look was bore of accident or even insecurity, not that it was actually aimed for. save me, please.
then on the other hand, i'm not cynical. there are pure awesome people in the world too. hank and john green are prime examples of this.
but 'normal' people too, there are at least three or four people (not particually friends) in my school who i think are awesome people (but people i mean their personality). they have good states of mines, ideas and opinions. they're honest, and aren't sheep.
if everyone could be like that i'd be happy to shut up and keep my opinions to myself. but they're not. and the world sucks.
*awkward wave*
p.s. i have four followers! well.. technically three (no news on how to unfollow myself as of yet?)
and i definitely, and most certainly do not hate you three. thanks for being awesome ><
humans in general do.
and if you don't i applaud you, for having the strength (an appropriate word i suppose?) to be not suckish.
suckish as a definition:
those people who follow the crowd, like gormless sheep. they all do exactly the same things and then complain that said thing is 'rinsed.' facebook is the prime example of this. not the site itself, it just highlights everything you hate about the people you know. like when people say things like, "need a boyf for winter:(" or "text me i need numbers."
i genuinly lost the will to live a few months ago while in the school bathrooms. some bimbo girl was putting on her face paste (make up) and her concerned friend suggested she tone it down as it was looking slightly orange under the light. her reply, and i am NOT fabricating this at all. her reply was.. "oh, it's okay i like to look a bit orange." LIKE. she LIKES to LOOK ORANGE.
the world isn't even worth living in if this is what people are like.
i always thought the orange look was bore of accident or even insecurity, not that it was actually aimed for. save me, please.
then on the other hand, i'm not cynical. there are pure awesome people in the world too. hank and john green are prime examples of this.
but 'normal' people too, there are at least three or four people (not particually friends) in my school who i think are awesome people (but people i mean their personality). they have good states of mines, ideas and opinions. they're honest, and aren't sheep.
if everyone could be like that i'd be happy to shut up and keep my opinions to myself. but they're not. and the world sucks.
*awkward wave*
p.s. i have four followers! well.. technically three (no news on how to unfollow myself as of yet?)
and i definitely, and most certainly do not hate you three. thanks for being awesome ><
Saturday, 7 January 2012
A theory.
*awkward wave*
Before I even start I just want to make it clear that I KNOW this would not work, as much as I would like it to. This requires that people are nice, and people are not nice. At 17 I've experienced enough of the world to know that one thing people aren't is nice. They can be kind, but for the purpose of this explanation those two adjectives mean completely different things. Being kind is doing nice, often selfless things for people you love, people you like or even just people you know - though in this case you are probably not selfless, you are being kind to make an impression. Being NICE is being selflessly kind to a complete stranger without expecting anything in return (and I mean this in the literal sense, not the "aw you didn't have you, you shouldn't have.. I wasn't expecting.." shit). *these aren't the definitions of the words but I thought I'd borrow them to make the differentiation between two points.
Yeah, so people aren't nice. And for this to work they'd need to be.
Here we go..
Instead of having a currency, or anything that is exchanged for a value and something in return, people just do their jobs. They don't get paid. But they don't need money. People do things for each other because they can. For example a teacher will teach a class of children because it is their job, if that teacher then wants to buy and apple they will go to a shop and the grocer will give them an apple because it is their job, the farmer will grow the apples because it is his job. People will do things for others because they will KNOW that they to can go to a shop and buy and apple or send their children to be taught. The governments won't need money because if it is someone's job to build a new road (which would be government funded) they will, knowing that if they wanted to go to a pub and eat a meal they could because it is that landlords job to provide that. People would do things for the love of the job, not the money they get out of it because money doesn't exist and it is not needed. If money had never existed would it be missed?
This may destroy all sorts of accepted systems by which we live, like the class system, but it would illuminate poverty and people wouldn't starve to death or live on the streets.
It would work because people would be nice to each other because they know that niceness will be returned in some form.
But it wouldn't work, because people aren't nice.
Oh, and probably because some people would freak if royals had the same amount of status as a shop keeper.
Before I even start I just want to make it clear that I KNOW this would not work, as much as I would like it to. This requires that people are nice, and people are not nice. At 17 I've experienced enough of the world to know that one thing people aren't is nice. They can be kind, but for the purpose of this explanation those two adjectives mean completely different things. Being kind is doing nice, often selfless things for people you love, people you like or even just people you know - though in this case you are probably not selfless, you are being kind to make an impression. Being NICE is being selflessly kind to a complete stranger without expecting anything in return (and I mean this in the literal sense, not the "aw you didn't have you, you shouldn't have.. I wasn't expecting.." shit). *these aren't the definitions of the words but I thought I'd borrow them to make the differentiation between two points.
Yeah, so people aren't nice. And for this to work they'd need to be.
Here we go..
Instead of having a currency, or anything that is exchanged for a value and something in return, people just do their jobs. They don't get paid. But they don't need money. People do things for each other because they can. For example a teacher will teach a class of children because it is their job, if that teacher then wants to buy and apple they will go to a shop and the grocer will give them an apple because it is their job, the farmer will grow the apples because it is his job. People will do things for others because they will KNOW that they to can go to a shop and buy and apple or send their children to be taught. The governments won't need money because if it is someone's job to build a new road (which would be government funded) they will, knowing that if they wanted to go to a pub and eat a meal they could because it is that landlords job to provide that. People would do things for the love of the job, not the money they get out of it because money doesn't exist and it is not needed. If money had never existed would it be missed?
This may destroy all sorts of accepted systems by which we live, like the class system, but it would illuminate poverty and people wouldn't starve to death or live on the streets.
It would work because people would be nice to each other because they know that niceness will be returned in some form.
But it wouldn't work, because people aren't nice.
Oh, and probably because some people would freak if royals had the same amount of status as a shop keeper.
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