Apec Debrief

For most of my life I've been very non political, instead thinking more about myself, individuals and the small groups of people around me. I've pretty much always disagreed with what government was doing but I just kind of left it at that really. Now I'm actually starting to think a lot about these things and this coupled with a twelve hour bus ride results in this rant.

I know I'm the crazy/eccentric one but here are a few things I just don't seem to be able to understand.

A few people have commented that I was silly to go to a protest, but if it wasn't for people making a fuss we wouldn't have a lot of the great things like democracy that we enjoy today.

Money has no intrinsic value, we just made it up ... its a collectively imagined principal that we pay an awful lot of credence to. By and large money seems like a good system it massively simplifies trade but it has some huge holes. Remember we lost the gold standard in the forties so there is more money in print than we have actual resources to justify it.

The environment is a real thing, the major cause of us continuing to pollute it is money, so here we have an imaginary concept that's actually harming our reality. Even if money was real we won't really have much use for it if the human race mostly dies out. CFC's the 100% proven ozone killers are not to be phased out completely till 2040, what kind of crazy time scale is it. By some good fortune we have a protective layer around our planet that protects us from nasty radiation from the sun. Why on earth is it taking us fifty odd years from when we found out that CFS where destroying it to stop using them?

We live in a world full of imaginary lines people on one side of the line can be the richest in the world and people on the other can be starving to death ... to me this is crazy. The reason we are not feeding/clothing and educating these people is basically because its not profitable to do so. Again numbers going down instead of up on some computer screen is causing real harm to the world. Travel and where you are allowed to live/work is restricted based on what random country you happen to be born in. I believe where ever you are born you are a person and deserve the same rights to the planet as everyone else.

The more we can start to become one race of people hopefully the more we can drop all this nonsense about different people hating other people because of something that happened several thousand years ago. The idea of land ownership is just completely stupid ... who are we buying it off? Why do they have any more claim to it than us? What gives someone the right to grab an area of the planet and say its theirs? Just because someone wrote down on a bit of paper a long time ago that the land is theres? An army gives you a means to do it but it doesn't confer a right to do it.

I feel its also worth mentioning all the parasitic humans who just do things like trade shares or currencies they don't actually produce anything just steal small amounts of money off an awful lot of people. When they trade currencies governments and central banks also have to trade to stabilise things, effectively money from the public purse gets given to them everyday. I'm going to include lawyers in this too, they are really only needed as the law has been made completely over the top complex, mostly because it was made by other lawyers. Imagine a law that's written that you can easily understand. Imagine how much easier tax returns could be if they weren't based on deliberately complex laws that artificially create the need for accountants and lawyers.

Religion ... I'm not even going to start on this one, sufficed to say that as part of our continuing evolution its really past time to take the emotional nappy of religion off. If your an adult with an imaginary friend please keep it to yourself and don't use it as an excuse to do anything other than making your life and the world a better place. Good Dam it! Jesus Christ! Religion makes me angry ... your continued belief in magic is doing real harm to society and which no longer covers you over my global belief that you can do/believe what ever you want as long as you don't harm another person. Please just stop for a moment and think about how childish and harmful faith based reasoning is, don't let it continue to another generation please. If that voice inside your head when you pray really is god then hes spoken to me too, he said

'Tell the others forget about all the dogmatic religious crap, be nice to everyone and have fun. If you really must worship me, have an amazing and good life. Oh and tell them its best not to mention me in public it makes them look a little crazy'

Why do we put up with this crazy system of voting once every five or so years for someone that's going to lie to us and not even do what the few things that we voted them in for. If only there was some way of collecting every ones opinion together rapidly and easy and using that to shape the future, oh hang on a second we do, the Internet! If a bank system can work why not a voting system? wouldn't it be nice to actually have people involved in the debate and deciding there future? Think about all the great things the Internet has achieved by bringing peoples minds together and start to wonder what else it could achieve.

I believe political assassination should be the standard way of handling wars, if some crazy guy at the top wants to start a war then it makes sense that he should be the one getting shot at.

All the power in the world resides with the people if only 10% of the people in the world own 90% of the wealth then they are exceedingly outnumbered. What ever continues to happen to us on our planet is our choice there is a cooperate machine trying to turn us into a giant dollar sign but we hold the plug in our hands.