‘What the hell??’ is probably passing through your mind at the moment.
Well, gooditude can be likened to awesomeninity, and shittity… well, the opposite.
The chinese were onto something with the yin/yang thing… I kinda agree with them that there needs to be a balance in the force, and in turn, there is almost always as much shittity as there is gooditude. You have to learn which one to appreciate more!
That said, I have had more gooditude lately than I am accustomed to, and it has been the awesomes.
I’ve received complaints about the lack of a blog lately and the reason for this is that I have been pretty busy and short of ideas.. Writing about life is an option that many take, but I prefer abstraction from this… resolving life situations into combinations of factors to make for a more interesting and applicable series of points.
I’m also having this problem where I lose concentration and forget where I’m going with a particular point… I’m a lot better at writing fiction :p
Oh ! Something just came to mind… what about this labour government of ours eh ? And all the other contending parties too… this serves to prove the opinion I’ve held all along that there is no one trustworthy in our government system, and voting is merely an exercise in futility because a positive outcome is not possible.
It’s like having to choose between having your cock chopped off, or your face permanently disfigured. There isn’t exactly a preferential choice between the two… thus, I walk out on the issue and allow other people to make a mistake of a choice & reap the consequences. I don’t even agree with this actual system itself, so I don’t see why I should be forced to make a choice within it. At least I don’t feel responsible for it when the elected government screws us over time and time again.
My word for the day is diction. It’s something that all of us can improve, some obviously more so than others.
September 27, 2006 at 7:25 pm
I agree on the word of choice, the vocabulary level has gone down 50% in one generation last I heard. It’s pretty ridiculous.
On the governmental point, I disagree. Whether or not you agree with the system, it is still your responsibility to help keep out ideas that you oppose and to keep in ideas that you support. The system is the system, and it will take ages to change, just being a bystander doesn’t help you or anybody else. For example, if you don’t vote for a candidate you might support more than another candidate, you are inessence letting candidate B win the race, youa re not fighting for the cause you believe in more. I’m not saying you cannot fight against the system of government you do not support (which is what I got from your piece), but you can fight for the ideals you see as strengths in the candidates in the race at the time. They are your only immediate options, and if you support them, then why not help them so they can help you in the end?
Very good post, though, succinct and clever. I like the Book of Cataclysm as well.
- Blake
September 27, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Diction, rhetoric, inartistic constraints, discourse conventions, you name, today’s general public doesn’t have the slightest idea what it is. Liked the blog title, completely understand the inability to form a cohesive thought sometimes. Check out my blog at, http://underdogs.wordpress.com , for some satire on pretty much anything and everything, I promise to include big words.
Ryan
October 4, 2006 at 1:45 am
you confuzzled me with your complex use of the english language, i fale
October 12, 2006 at 11:47 am
The system is corrupt, you have no choice because you are born into the system. some more then others.. the system controls the people but the system is based on ideas. i think its because if people are not controlled.. ideas some stronger then other influence people to take action.. in a system it is controlled by those who see it fit.. but the kind of people use it as a tool, relgion and sense of somewhat survival is what the system was based on.. but now with the way it all is.. its harder to change a socity molded into a system. some places have no system. the system may fail.
October 13, 2006 at 6:12 am
Well now, an interesting topic.
try this quote on for size.
“Voting changes nothing. If it did, it would be illegal”
Personally i think the govt. give syou choices to make, but they only let you choose the unimportant ones.
when did they last ask for your opinions on the allocation of the budget?
i cannot remember being asked about what i thought would be wise spending.
having said that, i also realise that it is quite improbable that i could do a better job of it.
On the topic of the whole Yin Yang thing, yes i agree with the principal, as i also believe in a very light version of Kharma as well…
October 24, 2006 at 11:35 pm
My word for the day is BLOGBLIVION. Blogblivion is where a blog peters out into blogscurity because it becomes blogged down!
Like the original Blog, a Cro-Magnon Man who existed some 1 million years ago, most blogs die out. ** Statistics suggest that some 85% of online blogs are dead or dying, with many of them not lasting a week and most not lasting a month.
If that happened to your blog, it would be a shame because it was novel and interesting.
The plain fact of the matter is that it can be very difficult to sustain such creative effort consistently and frequently. Having written a weekly newsletter for over 3 years, I know exactly how difficult this can be. Here are some tips for reviving a blog.
1. Pace yourself. Set a schedule for updating the blog and let everyone know what to expect. An interval of a week or a fortnight is good. Too long and your readers will lose interest. Too short and you make it difficult for yourself to keep to your self-imposed deadline.
2. Incorporate some regular feature or style that can be repeated once in a while by being updated or adjusted. Repeatability of subject matter takes the burden off constant creative input.
3. Open up to reader suggestions for subject matter or even reader contributions. The more people that contribute to a blog the better chance it has of surviving. In fact some of the longest lasting blogs do this and it is the sole reason for their survival.
4. Set a limit on the length of your blog updates. 200 to 500 words is ample to hold reader attention.
5. Break the more interesting articles/stories down into parts and contribute only one part at a time.
Well that’ll do for now except for one last thing – don’t take this as a complaint or criticism. I respect your efforts and originality, all I am doing is encouraging you to continue by providing some suggestions on how that might happen.
Cheers, DaGenius
** My theory is that Cro-Magnons per se never actually died out. Their genes live on in modern man and these account for entities known as “bogans”. That is, a bogan is a modern human carrying remnant Cro-Magnon genes! Bogan is therefore a shortened version of the original word for this sub-species, blogan.