Pandora's Box 5

I guess girls at all-girl schools get this, along with countless other tactics... but I just figured it out.

These young women are constantly fighting each other.  Whenever they find that they hate someone, they start telling rumors to their alleged friends.  This dehumanizes their enemies, just as the Nazis did with the Jews.  By doing so, they hope to make the rest of the people turn against their enemies by stripping them of respect.

Racism of Thought

Has anyone considered that we've been trained to value the body over the mind?  We've been trained to think that it's wrong to be racist or make comments about people's physical appearance, but that it's fine to attack other people's ideas and thoughts.  While we can't say racial slurs, it's totally alright to say stuff like "commie".  It shows that by defending our appearance over our thoughts, we care much more about people's bodies than their ideas.

Yes, ideas are part of the mind, but the point is that our society promotes shallowness.

While I'm Studying Chemistry...

Note: I'm not in AP Chem.  I was going to.  But I decided against it because I don't feel like I'll ever do anything that involves chemistry (except psychology a little).  So please stop asking me what Ulmer's homework is...

Anyways, I have recently been listening to the anthems (Poly life).  I've noticed that leftist countries tend to have badass anthems.  I was inspired as I listened to the USSR's anthem.  China has quite an interesting one too (The March of Volunteers).  And even France, where liberalism was born, HAD a brilliant anthem in "La Marseillaise".  It's not the socialism.  It's the "Unbreakable union of free republics", "Let our flesh and blood form the new Great Wall", and "may the blood of the impure water our fields!" that stirs my blood.

Then I listen to our own rather cartoonish anthem.  It's not that I don't feel proud, but there's no vigor, no force, no heart.  Our anthem is about hope, the hope that America offers.  But where's the part that makes young men wish to take up arms?  Where is the part that makes foreign countries wish they could march to our song?  Maybe we're not liberal enough.  Of course we can't go communist, but if Europe has surpassed us in social freedom, we've failed.  This country was founded to make a haven for those oppressed in Europe.  And now here we are.

Selling Out and Sold Out

As usual, I receive my 20ish ("ish" was defined as give or take 3 today) emails per day.  Most of them are notifications that my mailbox has been trained to deem "junk".  Every so often, I encounter this:

Jane Doe invited you to join the Facebook group "Petition for Some Band/Company to bring back their old songs/products".

The members of the group accuse some party of "selling out" and losing their original customers in favor of money.  So these people will ask some other group to cater to them rather than get rich.  I understand their point.  Unfortunately, with these tough times, I think we should be a little more utilitarian.  We can't expect these people to change their ways at their expense.  Especially not now.

And if you imagine these were not tough times, then it wouldn't really matter because this is the Will to Power, the right, desire, and means of every individual to drive to success.  In that case, people can stop complaining on Facebook and form together some sort of mob to sign a real petition/boycott/burn down the studio/factory.  But I won't lie.  I've joined those groups before  to "Save Polaroids".

Pandora's Box 4

Saturday is actually a better day for this.  I'm always working on Sundays.  Well, for the three people that read this-here it is.

Since we're in a world of eternal contention and this is about making it worse for everyone else, it seems appropriate to talk about violent arguments.

Let's get this straight.  If you want to argue about something, you want to make a point to another person.  However, somewhere along the line of the argument, you start trying to convince your new "opponent" that you are right and that he or she is wrong.

So for all you pacifists, you can just use this to end the argument.

But for those of you who want to be satisfied, keep participating in the argument.  But let your "opponent" try to convert you.  They won't get anywhere.  And you can tell yourself you've won.

Pandora's Box 3

Yes I'm late.  I told you.  It doesn't matter because about 3 people per week will read this blog.  This week, I will discuss enjoyment.

Vacation was almost over.  I ended up at my friend's house at 7 in the morning and we were waiting to go to Disneyland (which is far too expensive by the way).  With about 15 hours left of actual freedom, I began to worry.  It was sad, especially because I was supposed to enjoy myself.  But a minute later, I was fine.

I started by finding out what I was afraid of.

-I was afraid that I wouldn't enjoy myself enough on the last day.

-I know I probably failed something and school would remind me of that.

Then I found what I wanted to feel.

-Neither of those.

Then I found what caused those.

-Worrying

-A fear of failure/school

So I did this: I could solve both by solving the second, and since school was inevitable I simply ignored it.  I didn't let go of it, but I just decided to live the moment.

Procrastination is healthy sometimes.

And it's simple.  It's not living for the moment.  It's living the moment.

Drive to Desire, Desire to Drive

Desire is not an emotion.  It is a power to achieve.  To want something is to potentially get something.  Potential is fulfilled by a strong enough desire.

Desire is not the image destination.  It is the entire journey.

Level 1: Do we "want" something?  People often ask that when they fall short of achieving that thing.

Level 2: But do we "want" to "want" that object at all?  This is the question to be asked.  The proper human already has the means to achieve any desire that they desire to want.

Can humans fly?  No.

Do humans want to fly?  Sometimes.

Do humans want to want to fly?  Never.  Humans know it is an impossible task.

But what about expanding borders?  There are no borders.  The human "soul" is limitless.  The Level 1 desire is in the soul.  We can want anything.  The level 2 desire is part of the body.  Level 2 is what keeps us attached to reality.

And if that's not satisfying, THAT'S WHAT ART IS FOR.

So from now on, after you ask yourself "do I want this?", ask "do I want to want this?"