The Gossip Thread
lol
This really pissed me off, it's something Giggan posted on Facebook earlier.
Oh, I got rid of him a while ago.
If he pisses you off, you're obviously taking him too seriously.
I usually try to ignore him, but I don't really understand what he wants, if even countries bother him.
I added him in an attempt to understand and try to take him seriously outside of the attitude around here, but then had to delete him after a six month trial run because What The Fucking Fuck is Wrong with You Man?????!!!!
But, i also do not have facebook anymore, and life is still so much more beautiful because of it, so pointless for me to mention anyhow.
From the little I've observed, I thought Giggan was joking about everything. Doesn't he have a ridiculous sense of humor? He is politically sensitive, but also seems to have a John Stewart-on-Red Bull-and-shrooms amateur comedy act, to balance it out. That's his reflex to cope with the overwhelming political state of the world. Right?
I wish.
Giggan is absolutely sincere in his desire to become a tribal warlord in a post-apocalyptic near-future dystopia.
At that point, of course, the jokes begin writing themselves.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Eh. He's just a funny guy. The world is shit and he's just a funny guy. No big deal.
At that point, of course, the jokes begin writing themselves.
Oh dear. 
And, Hahaha!
Yay skits comedy!! For some reason, this reminds me of Straight to Hell with Elvis Costello, Courtney Love and Grace Jones. I can't make the connection. But, it's there.
Goddammit guys, he's a hippie, awright? He doesn't like the man, and he doesn't like the idea of governments and borders and nations when We Are All Just People. It's not hard to understand that the kid means well, as capitalism, when done well, can provide the best of everything, and he understands that people can and do decide to work together to provide for each other, and our current system is fucked and all that, blah blah blah.
What he doesn't understand is that whenever he gets his wish, and people are protected by this privatized militia system, we're eventually gonna have prisons again, and sacrifices, cuz that's just what people do when it comes to primitive justice. Banishments are... eventually ineffective. But beyond that, when a group becomes too large, as it eventually will, because large societies breed more production and better living in general, how will these people in the militia get paid for their service? Who gets to be in that militia? I'm not too psyched about letting some nobody put on the uniform (if they even have uniforms). I mean, if this is capitalism, aren't we supposed to breed the best of the best, no matter the good or service? So some enterprises will be entirely focused on providing the best enforcers, through training and what not, but wait a fucking minute. Who are they going to protect, and what are they going to protect them from? Those that pay them? Okay. Will they have to call them up? Are the areas people walk through under the ownership of some person/group/whatever that has their own enforcers? What if someone can't afford an enforcer? Can people hire enforcers to (covertly or otherwise, depending on public reaction) dominate what little militia that place has and steal everything? What's to stop them from doing that? Nothing. So what is the best system to avoid having to follow the rules of every dickhole who happens to have property between where you live and your destination? And what is the best system that avoids this whole forceful take over bit? And what if enforcers have no idea who pays them and what not? How can they respond to a crisis before knowing whether or not they'd be helping someone for free?
Well, you know what would be dandy? You know how we fixed this problem thousands of years ago? If everyone within a geographic location voluntarily decided to pay tribute for the protection of these enforcers, and together decided what rules they should enforce equally throughout, suddenly all of those problems are gone. Suddenly, the economy isn't run through a truly horrifying corporate state. But wait a minute. Suddenly... you have borders and boundaries, that if you want to live in, you have to pay tribute. That sounds pretty familiar to me.
Capitalism thrives more quickly under the best of conditions. These conditions (or laws), arguably, are created by the capitalist philosophy. The government is an extension of it. Suddenly, it becomes inevitable for it all to come down to a battle of economies between nations. States (as in Texas, Hawaii, etc) are an echo of this idea. They're laboratories of government, and are meant to be that way. There's your competition of government systems, and 50... meh... seems like a good number. We're not perfect, but it's a slow process.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Or, to summarize in far fewer words, as I said to Giggan, "When you abolish all laws, I will eat you."
This is why we can't have nice things.
Sort of, pretty much, just that.
Some guy all into obscure spirituality told her (mom) once that red would aggravate us kids, tempers and stuff.
She took it really really far, my whole life.
She has weird issues with colors.
Won't wear or like to look at black because it is all her mom dressed her in supposedly for the first year of her life (mourning her own mother).
Took up with a guy once (before I was born) that sort of lost it and decided he wanted to be as much like a plant as possible. She came home one day and the walls were green and the furniture was green and all his cloths were green. Everything. Would only eat green food. She dumped him and he wouldn't leave, just lived in the garden for a few months.
Became a Sikh and our whole wardrobes were suddenly all white.
After leaving the Sikhs met a guy who only wore home dyed tie-dye. And how convenient ... all we had were white cloths. Blank canvasses for him.
And the red thing. And other things.