偉民 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} andr00) wrote,@ 2004-01-13 07:04:00 |
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Elektron liked my synth programs enough to include them in the factory presets of the Monomachine when it gets released sometime this month. That means my name goes in the credits of the manual! AS I HAD INTENSELY DESIRED WOULD BE SO.
I tried going to sleep, but it's not working. I'm just not sleepy. I can lie there motionless for a couple hours, but the tiniest little movement or sound and I'm blinking awake and thinking of things I'd rather be doing than lying down by myself.
Maybe I can do a quiz!
| The current war: | Which one? The one on drugs? The one on terror? They're both doing something, but not really what they're supposed to be doing (i.e. reducing the popularity of drugs/terror) |
| Middle Eastern people: | They are a sexy bunch. |
| The current US President: | I won't be upset on the day he leaves the white house. |
| The Patriot Act: | It protects us from phantom terrorists by destroying our liberty before they can get at it. |
| The environment: | We live in it. It's changing because of us. The changes will affect us all and our precious children, too. |
| Endangered species: | How sad it is, to become extinct. On the other hand, would I be sad if the giant centipede became extinct? No. It would probably have far-reaching ecological consequences, but I'm ignorant of them. Damn my stupid brain! |
| Political (or other) Activism: | It would be great, if it weren't so ineffectual next to lobbying huge amounts of money. |
| Premarital sex: | If the desire for and enjoyment of sex weren't hard wired into the very roots of the human brain, I'd say you should avoid it. But that isn't the case. Premarital sex is the only kind of sex some people ever have. It has to happen. |
| Homosexuality: | The Catholic church says that abstinence ("education") is the best birth control. Well, they're wrong - it's homosexuality. Burn! |
| Abortion: | It's unpleasant, but as legal as cutting off your own arm. Sometimes you gotta cut your arm off, and it should be your right to do so. |
| Murder: | Murder is unlawful killing, the dictionary tells me. So, obviously it's any death that goes against a law. I guess it's pretty bad! But since the definition is contingent on laws, what is and isn't murder changes on the whims of the legal establishment. |
| Suicide: | Is it murder? Well, it's illegal, so I guess it is! Being oblivious can seem pretty appealing at times, but making a break for it is pretty impulsive and deprives the world of your cool self and all your potential future accomplishments, your rise from ignominy, your bestselling novel that you wrote at age 65, etc. So hold on a goddamned second, ok? |
| Capitol punishment: | It would be great if our legal system never made a mistake. Unfortunately, we have already put innocent people to death. Hey, that makes us all accessories to murder, doesn't it? And murder is b-a-a-a-a-d. So until we have psychic pre-crime department, we can't really kill any people in good conscience. |
| Stem cell research: | If this were a game of Civilization, I'd put a lot of shields into stem cell research. Aesthetic objections to advancement of knowledge look pretty stupid just a few decades down the line. |
| Smoking: | Pretty happy that I never started, and thus don't have to choose between the long and painful process of quitting, or trying to reconcile being nice to others with making them smell like a cheap motel room while giving them and their kids cancer. |
| Drinking: | If alcohol didn't exist, there wouldn't be any alcohol related deaths, divorces, or car accidents! Ha ha ha ha. No, I'm kidding. I don't drink much, though. |
| Drugs: | I am a D.A.R.E. graduate. Drug Abuse Resistance Education. So is everyone else who was in my elementary school. It didn't seem to work on anyone who would've tried drugs anyhow. I managed to never try any drugs, though I constantly find myself in penthouse suites at the hard rock hotel, hanging out with people snorting lines off the mirrored tables they have there. But you see, winners don't use drugs AND MILK AND CHEESE ARE THE BIGGEST WINNERS THAT EVER HAVE BEEN |
| Legalization of marijuana: | Would free up some resources to fight terror, wouldn't it? How much terror does marijuana cause? Probably not a whole lot, right? Less than alcohol? Then it should be legal. |
| Banning of ephedra: | Ephedra? Is it behind much terror? No? Why bother banning it? |
| Witchcraft: | My understanding is that Witchcraft causes pretty much no terror at all, so in that sense it has some more popular religious by-products beat. |
| Satanism: | One of those "seems cool when you're an angsty teenager" kind of philosophies. |
| Devil worship: | Pretty much like god worship. Lemme ask you this, what makes you Christians so sure that Lucifer lost his fight with god? Maybe he won, kicked God out, and has been pretending to be God ever since. Wouldn't that be JUST LIKE HIM to do that? |
| Guns: | Can't be uninvented. Guns are just the best personal deadly weapon there is right now. If you're out there in the boonies, and it's just you and your farm, what else can you turn to when a bunch of terrorists show up on your doorstep? |
| Freedom of speech: | I'm told, by some, that we Americans think this is pretty important. It is, really. People saying things you don't like? You can't just make them shut up. You have to convince them that they WANT TO shut up. |
| Racism: | It's really there! If you grow up in Hawaii, you get an early illustration of racism in the tale of Thalia Massie, which results in a general dislike of white people, hilariously enough. I think it's possible to have intellectual dominance over any reflexive racism you might've been trained to have, and I think that's as much as we can expect. |
| Furs: | Kept our ancient ancestors from dying, which is good! We now have the technology to obviate fur, but I think it's okay if you still want to wear it, as long as you don't get it from a fur farm that just torments the ermines for their entire lives. |
| Technology: | Causes A LOT OF TERROR. Still, I like it. That's a hell of a thing, huh? |
| Birth control: | Prophylactics, I'm guessing this means. Well, they're not exactly sexy or convenient, but they're good for avoiding abortions. |
| Church and State: | Our country exists because government mandated religion is so repugnant that our forefathers sailed thousands of miles in creaky fuckin' slow-ass sailing ships to get away from it. I haven't experienced it personally, I guess, but I'll go ahead and take their word for it. |
| Veganism: | Go for it! If you feel your eating and using-stuff habits aren't compatible with your philosophy, it's right and good to try altering them. |
| Feminism: | Are women as valuable as men? Feminism is built on the idea that they are. Some folks get funny ideas about man hating and not shaving and stuff like that, but it's really all about the being equal. I don't know too many people who disagree with that. |
| World peace: | Lack of war sounds pretty nice. It also sounds like a delicate equilibrium of countless things. Like four people trying to drive the same car. |
| Space exploration: | Slow, but so cool. A good way to discover bizarre, unknown stuff. |
| Assisted suicide: | Better than offing yourself some haphazard way because no one will help you. If you're really old and in agony, is it fair if everyone tells you that you have to just wait around until your body just can't take another breath? If the only thing you can do anymore is stare? No, that's not fair. |
| Self injury: | Happens for a buncha reasons. If someone is neglected for a long time, they can find themselves here. |
| Censorship: | Good, if you're the Nazis, or if you want to be like them. Unless it's your neo-nazi literature that's being censored. |
| Add your own:: | |
| 1: Stealing music: | I am specifically talking about people who download entire albums that they want, burn them to CD, and don't buy them. Not the best arrangement, but what else can you expect when all the radio and TV stations and major music stores are pandering to the blandest, mainstream teenagers? That said, folks who are avid fans of something but don't support its makers seem kinda self-defeating. (p.s. musicians! put paypal buttons on your webpages!) |
| 2: Death | I think when you die, you don't gain some kind of astral awareness, presence, or a new life. I think you lose everything to do with your body. If there's anything left that's part of you, but not part of the physical world (and your thoughts and memories ARE a physical presence), you've got it right now. Are you aware of it? Is that you? WTF! |
| 3:Sleep | I should be asleep, but am not tired. Maybe I'll give it another shot. |
