Been a crazy morning, lots of work to get out of the way, and I still have stuff to get through this afternoon. But I can find the time to blog! Interestingly, we're about to pass a major milestone here - 30,000 page views! That's insane! I'm very proud! It doesn't give an accurate reflection of total blog views, because people can just come to our site via the URL and then just navigate from there, without picking a blog title. So who knows what the actual number is? It doesn't matter. I write for myself, not for the views or the links or the references.
Ahh fuck! Just been dumped with more work! This may make getting out of here a harder task than originally thought. But suck it up and just do it. As I listen to Martin, just do the work. That's it, just do the work.
Let's have a thought exercise. What if I just changed everyone's clocks and watches and all timed devices. So let's just move the time forward 47 minutes, arbitrarily. While in reality, time is really 47 minutes in the past, but because of everyone's shared belief or shared delusion, time has just moved ahead 47 minutes and they're none the wiser. That's the sort of view we hold about so many things, such as religion, currency and pretty much every other major idea. If we just changed how we thought, things could be so much better. But people wish to cling to having the clock 47 minutes ahead, just because everyone else has their time set that way. And that solves nothing, and we are all worse off for it.
Wonderful news! Australia is now directly involved in the war effort in Syria and Iraq. Instead of laying back and just taking a support role, or even a humanitarian role, our air fighters are now directly involved in bombing targets in both countries. Wonderful! And the public just support this! We are sheeple. There's no real opposition in Australian politics, the Labor party is a joke. They lost the race to the bottom, and now they are just keeping to the same line to remain consistent. There's nothing Western democracies love more than warfare with people from vastly different cultures. Some things will never change.
We're seeing an assault on our rights and our privacy at the moment by the government (surprise surprise). Our government recently passed legislation allowing the entire Internet to be monitored (read: tapped) by our intelligence agencies on the strength of just one warrant. Great! So all your metadata and what not is up for grabs anyway, and then there's the added bonus of journalists facing 10 years prison if they report on matters to do with national security! What?! We live in a totalitarian state where nobody is accountable? This is a conservative government's wet dream! The public is too ignorant or passive to care.
I might have to just call this one here because I have so much work on. Gotta get a move on! 90 minutes to go, and now I'm cursing the clock for different reasons entirely.
And there's only more of this to come.
Joaquin out.
