I'm still in Chicago, but don't feel like talking about it. The Shining's on Sci-Fi and I have cool pictures from my night out...
On an unrelated note, I've noticed that in addition to becoming more claustrophic the older I get, the more conspiracy theories I develop. For your perusal:
1. Birth control is supplied by the government and designed to keep womankind down. Yeah we don't get preggers, but we also get crazy-hormonal, thereby unable to accomplish the shit we really need to address to stand on an equal footing.
2. America has screwy priorities because we don't have royalty but instead celebrity. Unlike royalty, celebrities don't have any obligation to act in a noble or decent way, nor to give/plan/help anything or anyone. They just make excessive amounts of money and act like assholes, because all we care about is what they look like on the red carpet or who they're dating.
3. The public school system (by and large) doesn't give much of a shit about minority education--we only care when we need a systematic form of training minorities like for the army or the Industrial Revolution. Public school culture is white middle class culture--other forms of literacy or knowledge aren't accepted. That's really too bad, as we could learn a lot from other people.
4. There's no such thing as "the one." It's statistically impossible given the number of people on this planet, a dumb white-dress fantasy perpetuated by romantic comedies. There is, though, love. Not to be mushy, but I think it is the driving force behind everything truly good, and occasionally for some unlucky people, bad. See #8.
5. The moon landing happened. It did. Get over it. And there are UFO's. There might not be aliens (or ghosts for that matter) but to assume we're alone in the universe is naive. To assume ANYTHING is naive.
6. Recidivism rates for educated (while incarcerated) prisoners vs. non-educated is much, much lower, but our current attitude towards prison reforms is one of retribution and punishment. Which I agree with--do the crime, do the time. But why not educate people while they're locked up and give them some skills for when they get out? Not just vocational but personal too. It would take time, money, organization, and a lot of research and devotion, but would pay off big time--we spend a shitton of money on incarcerating and releasing people, many of whom end up right back in the slammer cause they can't cope when they get out.
7. Karma is real. It makes sense, and it happens. Organized religion on the other hand have served as a vehicle for some of the worst crimes on humanity, primarily at the hands of rich white men. There is a God, and He is not pleased with that shit.
8. This isn't really a conspiracy theory: there are precious few things that really matter in life. Money, status, looks, etc are not among them. And to be honest, no one ever guaranteed you'd be happy--you gotta make your own happy. You were never promised a rose garden. As time itself is a waste of time, only dumb people waste it on the unimportant shit, and the even dumber people don't even know what the unimportant shit is.
So suck on that.
Be back soon.
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