Monthly Archive for April, 2006

and more observations.

I just wrote a insightful review of the movie A History Of Violence in which I detailed how the movie succeeded on the level of parable much more than Crash in the way it was ultimately about mankinds genetic and cultural legacy of violence and how it’s been naturally selected for over millenia. Unfortunately my computer got bogged down with too many open windows and ultimately wiped them all along with the post I hadn’t bothered to save yet. You will have to guess at the levels of wisdom and perception that glowed from the liquid crystal pixels of my screen, and that would have come to dazzling light on yours as well because I don’t feel like trying to simulate the review again. Maybe at a later time a less passionate version will find it’s way on here stripped of novelty and the kind of clarity and moral and intellectual strength that might have changed the world.

Let me just say to those of you who saw it that if Viggo doesn’t have the genetic predisposition, and indeed we find its familial for him, he dies in that diner, and that violence was naturally selected for until the rise of civilizations and law and order. And who does he marry to escape it all and lead a civilized small town life? A lawyer. A lawyer whose intellectual callings war with her genetic tendency to favor the violent and dominating potential of a mate. Ultimately, as in society, she and Viggo form an unspoken alliance with underlying motivators that dare not speak their name.

Speaking of violence and male tendencies the ratio of female to male births in China is getting bigger. By this I mean there are alot more boys being born. I read something tonight about how ultrasound and similar technology in China has led to people aborting more females once they are given the heads up due to the patriarchal motivators we already knew existed there which made girls that were born less valuable. But what occured to me earlier was that with China already growing economically and with conflict with them seeming more inevitable, that could very well make the above fact a very dangerous factor that might more readily precipitate a major battle.

Think about it: You’re going to have a generation of men without sex as a release and vying ever harder to win the attention of the few women that exist. Traditionally in the genetic sense this means violent and aggressive behavior. And without that softer neutralizing female element, that yin to their yang there to temper or alleviate hostility, or to offer consolation, it seems to me that motivations to keep the peace are lessened. Plus war is a great stabilizer. The Chinese government is very concerned with these unbalanced factors and its future effects on their society. There is a feeling that it will lead to more crime, prostitution, and sex slave trade. It already appears heading in that direction. So what better way to thin the numbers of males and restore the balance than a big old fashioned war with all the modern amenities?

Scared of China yet?

On the subject of procreation, there is some reason to believe that humans are having less children despite growing population numbers. There is also some info out there to indicate the families that have not changed their procreating tendencies to accomodate an overpopulous, environmentally challenged, and less traditional-religious world, are conservative fundamentalist types. Indeed red states produce more often than blue states. Those with the most numbers win and even in the baby boomer era it was conservatives having the majority of children with a hefty proportion coming from families that had 4 or more kids, while blue staters and boomers tended to have 1 or 2 if any at all. And since the bigger teams and armies usually win and might makes right I worry a little that the liberal worldview will die out as the be fruitful and multiply folks dominate us by sheer numbers. And let’s not hide behind glorious tales of heroism and ideologies, it is the greater numbers that almost always win and write history.

This thought is at war with my more optimistic belief, or perhaps hope is a better word, that evolution works on a cultural level as well and that we are moving forward inevitably and inexorably. As technology expands exponentially I hope that it’s beneifits are negating some of the qualities and ignorance that allowed some older patterns to be perpetuated. These include societal patterns to grow more conservative and religiously fundamentalist as a nations power wanes, its people become more destitute, and a period of individualism and leaisure gives way to falling population numbers and a temporarily less patriarchal establishment.

Depending on which way you look at it the Bush administration becomes either a momentary perturbation on the graph of forward progress that from a distance decades from now will hardly be noticable or an early stage in a horrid Orwellian-Puritan nightmare of a nation very few thought possible here at one time.

As for Bush he leaked stuff too it seems. He said he’d punish all leakers. He hasn’t punished any including himself. He is a forgiving god as I’m sure the one he says he worships conveniently is at times like this. Not so much when he’s blasting Muslims and Hindus with Tsunamis though or striking down the WTC because we’re a nation of faggots and uppity women who aren’t bearing enough children.

If it all goes down its the medias fault. They could have changed it had they wanted to. They have always had the power to rile up the masses or sedate them. Under Bush they chose sedation. They knowingly aided him in gaining the presidency in 2000 though they had plenty of evidence he lost. They have it all on them. Including the blood of soldiers and civilians. Maybe even the 3000 from 9-11. If we truly had an independent media can you imagine what they’d already have done to Bush? Think Clinton and Nixon combined with Barry Bonds and Pete Rose. And he’d deserve it all and more.

Here’s a recent exchange between Bush and a questioner about military contractors in Iraq that serves to illustrate just how incompetent, out of touch, out of the loop, stupid, and negligent this executive turd really is:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. It’s an honor to have you here. I’m a first-year student in South Asia studies. My question is in regards to private military contractors. Uniform Code of Military Justice does not apply to these contractors in Iraq. I asked your Secretary of Defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions.

THE PRESIDENT: I was going to ask him. Go ahead. (Laughter.) Help. (Laughter.)

Q I was hoping your answer might be a little more specific. (Laughter.) Mr. Rumsfeld answered that Iraq has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors. However, Iraq is clearly not currently capable of enforcing its laws, much less against — over our American military contractors. I would submit to you that in this case, this is one case that privatization is not a solution. And, Mr. President, how do you propose to bring private military contractors under a system of law?

THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that very much. I wasn’t kidding — (laughter.) I was going to — I pick up the phone and say, Mr. Secretary, I’ve got an interesting question. (Laughter.) This is what delegation — I don’t mean to be dodging the question, although it’s kind of convenient in this case, but never — (laughter.) I really will — I’m going to call the Secretary and say you brought up a very valid question, and what are we doing about it? That’s how I work. I’m — thanks. (Laughter.)

You think Clinton wouldn’t know the answer to this question? Dan Quayle may have even had this one covered. Well maybe not Quayle. God Quayle and Bush…Republicans are kind of stupid.

Oh and Delay is gone but still committing corrupt atrocities against his country. He was going to be stepping down all along but sent out a messege to supporters that he needed their help to fight and campaign for his reelection. What he really wanted their help and primarily their financial support for was to fund his legal defense. Some of those supporters now want their money back. They wont get it because this is actually legal for him to do. Ironic that his final act of greedy immorality and corruption turns out to be one of his few legal ones. Special place in hell is all I’m saying.

Angry Bob is right. She Wants Revenge sucks. Just saw a video. Sounded like the kind of stuff I hated in the 80′s. Pussy Rock they should call it. And all these Arctic Monkeys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs aren’t angry or talented enough to carry any kind of punk or garage rock mantle, or exist in the same general genre as Green Day. Very derivitave Strokes type of stuff which is also derivitave and unimaginative. Somehow I blame Courtney Love for this musical mess of the past 10 or so years. She is the anti-muse come to kill the music starting with Kurt. Her superficial, crackhead, starfucker, mentality was then free to grow with Kurt no longer there to stop it. That’s why she had to get close to him and take him out of the game early. Mark David Chapman may have been part of this back in 1980. I don’t know how deep this thing goes but it probably had its roots in the Nixon administration. Riddles wrapped in enigmas with a creamy white filling people. But whens the expiration date on treachery? When I ask.

On a related note: stay in school kids. I say this because I think not taking it more seriously and going to college back when was part of that iconoclastic and rebellious thing I have. The anti-authority thing. As a kid I saw school as the man. The hand of oppression wanting to teach me how to fit into the system. Now I realize that education is the tool to fight oppression and to give one choice. In a world where predation and physical violence is not so selected for anymore, though it will still get you laid alot and married as much as you’d like. . . just not to the kind of girls I’d want, and a world where I don’t really have those physical characteristics to allow me to dominate people physically anyway, education is vital. Sure you can get bainwashed. You can be a Yale or Harvard person and all that usually entails as far as ones political outlook and philosophies. But combined with a rebels heart and a bit of outside the box thinking a good and complete education gives everyone a shot at living with no chains. And with a world of possiblilities open to them.

But that practical part of me wonders if that less violent evolved growth of humanity, or at least of America, is in a real world sense, dangerous for survival. In light of some of the above, if Americans have less children, get smaller in size compared to competitors, take on less violent and more liberal tendencies, might it not make us a target? Weaker in a pragamatic sense.

This is one of the ways conservative ideologues think and its not necessarily wrong. But what pisses me off is that they pretend they’re about god and believing in values, when at their core they and their free market ideology believe in nothing and if anything are very much aligned with the principles of Darwin. They are social Darwinists and have cleverly managed to get alot of people to think they are the opposite even as they act in accordance with its principals.

And my computer hurt me. Blame it for this rant. You would have only had a another albeit elightening and profound movie review likely to alter your very conceptions of the nature of film. Instead you get scatological webslinging from topic to topic including my much maligned political ranting. But hey you got some personal stuff too and for those of you who liked only those personal parts of this post and not the political, bugger off because my political views are personal parts of who I am and to differentiate between the two or insinuate one is less honest than the other would bother me to the point of having to find less productive outlets. Just because the one is not based on my personal life makes it no less real, honest, and personal. It is not regurgitated from other sources or part of a liberal brainwashing campaign. I discern the differences and make it my own as much as I do with my interpretations of a movie or song. I have fought my own war of the worldviews and come to this place and will state my opinions and seek new information. I will incorporate it all and use it to destroy all who try and stop me.

I hope you understand the implications of this statement. I will fight you all if you want!

Come on! You know you want to. It’s in your genetic makeup. Fight me for the girl you sons of bitches! First one to procreate wins. Final showdown for all the marbles on the Galapagos Islands sometime near the end of the world.