The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[Sinister]

Hmmn. I think [oh jesus here I go with the most commonly used phrase evAr] that life is what you make of it. It's sad, isn't it? That something we hear a lot is actually true. I do really believe that though, for the most part. Of course life is mundane in the light of repetative boring tasks, but if you look at it a different way, then perhaps your life in general will change as well. Waking up every day to go to work, doing the same tasks, then comming home is rather boring. But what do you think about while you're at work, and what kind of activities do you do outside of work? Do you meet new people every day? I think it's really exciting to meet new people and listen to the stories they tell... although a lot of people now adays are as shallow as the ocean is deep.

As for the question of what changes I would make, they would just be how I view things. Otherwise, it's true, the world is an extremely strange, wonderful, and dangerous place to begin with. I use to really hate how boring everything seemed, but now I really do stand by my observation that if things were to get any more "unique" or "original" then we would be in for an ass whooping

There is an ancient eastern curse that goes: "May you and your lot live in interesting times."

I suppose my rant on how the world is unoriginal is from my perspective. It is what I make of it, and for the last two years...well, I'm still doing the same thing I've always been doing. I suppose I make the mistake of calling the world unoriginal when what I mean is that MY world, as it stands, is getting too unoriginal for me. What was it Hunter Thompson said? "It never got weird enough for me." That is my perspective at the moment.

If I could change anything? I suppose I would make the varied locales of the world...Japan, Australia, the poles, tropics...more easily accessible.


-Sin

[Govinda]

Hah. 'It never got weird enough for me.' He was certainly weird enough for the rest of us; he blew his head off on his garden lawn in his 60s, as far as I know, because he wasn't famous anymore, and all he really was known for was a giant pile of drug-fueled classic ramble about Las Vegas.

Which demonstrates neatly the point about each person viewing the world and their reality differently from the next. I am almost certain that other people don't look at a tree and often see it not as a tree, but some alien creation. Have you ever noticed how downright weird trees look, even when they've got leaves?

My reality's interesting enough, because if it gets boring or sad, my brain likes to populate it with imaginary sights and sounds that interest and scare me. If things get boring, I write and make new interesting people in new interesting places and make them do fun things to distract myself. I sit on the bus and stare out of the window, but what I see really is any story set to the music I'm listening to, and it's vivid and real and fun.

However. That's just my little, obscured view. The world as a whole I think is quite boring. I don't classify things like war and starvation as interesting, because they give people nothing to do other than struggle and kill one another. They're plagues and blights, not things which make the You Are A Human On Earth! experience any more captivating for me.

So, for my change, I'd get rid of them. Bye bye bad stuff. Install administrations capable of satisfying the wants of their people, and keeping bad guys out. I know this is impossible, but Sinister voted to move continents around, so I guess artistic licence is okay here.

Bad things gone...and then we see what humans can really do. Imagine it. Making things that don't end up as guns. Radical new worldview where people are NICE to one another on a global scale; not on a personal scale all the time, however, because that is more impossible than moving Japan across the Pacific. And less interesting.

A world without war or shortage. Happy siesta filled with new people and the stories they've got to tell. That's what I'd change.

Since that's not going to happen, I'll content myself with private imagination and repeats of Recent Interesting Conversations with my three Actually Interesting Friends, and maybe even you guys (should you be so lucky, internet fiends ).



Wishing you back with health and haste, Fishie love.

[Sinister]

Ignoring your careless slight at my fellow Kentuckian and Johnny Depp's best friend , Thomson also said "I'd feel very trapped in this world if I knew that I couldn't commit suicide at any minute." And true enough, I accept the world I live in only with the knowledge that I could reject it at any moment I deem necessary.

But, however far fetched my wish was, I think you made better use of yours. Indeed the world would be...if not more interesting, better.


-Sin

[Govinda]

Bad things gone...and then we see what humans can really do. Imagine it. Making things that don't end up as guns. Radical new worldview where people are NICE to one another on a global scale; not on a personal scale all the time, however, because that is more impossible than moving Japan across the Pacific. And less interesting.

Who said anything about removing personal conflict ? Of course we all need that. If I couldn't watch my flatmates argue over YOU STOLE MY BUTTER NO I DIDN'T things would be much less entertaining.

Oceaneyes - YES. We need to make that happen. How much more fun would it be to resolve the Iraq war with Twister or water balloons? Seriously! Yes, it's still war and violence, but now it's nice. You've improved my idea tenfold.


Balance though. Yes. Maybe that's the answer; ying and yang, just enought war, just enough peace. But in the eyes of those in the middle of the war that won't be balance at all: it'll be horrible. Funnily enough, now that I think about it, the goal of every war would seem to be peace of some kind; peace in your new lands once you've nicked them, peace once that particular people have been removed from the earth completely. All the fighting would seem to be so that we can, in one way or another, sit in safe gardens and drink orange juice and stuff.

Nobody wants to be in the middle of a war. Maybe it's because we're all safe as houses Westerners who've probably never been anywhere near a malicious explosion that we view war so nonchalantly. I've noticed that. Interesting war seems to be something you can look at and study from afar, and you find it interesting; but I bet it is far from interesting for the people on the ground. WW2 caused a lot of advance, yes, but millions died. The same is true of most major conflict. Bismarck united Germany by starting a series of well-placed wars.

Maybe it's that we can't have one without the other. No peace without war.

Which is as depressing as I think it's possible to get, honestly.