The Genesis of Will and the Role of Currency

Original creation date: 5 August 2006

image conscious. image conscious. this is the phrase maria used today. image conscious.

this has been a trip down memory lane. ‘everything has changed and everything has stayed the same.’ maybe a soap opera of real life. like ‘the Truman show’. it has its own internal logic and plot twists.

sandy cohen was like, don’t put ryan in jail because he is really intelligent as demonstrated by these tests, and he will one day be a productive citizen of the united states and make this country a lot of money basically.

the basic problem of humanity is that everybody wants to rule the world. it’s a cliché but yet holds the answer, because to take away that desire is to basically destroy the human spirit. in other words there is no way to remedy this condition without wiping out our basic reason to live.

maybe somewhere they tried to do that and when it succeeded all the people who stopped wanting to rule the world could see no further meaning in life and so committed suicide collectively, thus rendering the system useless.

i guess by a strictly utilitarian point of view, religions that seem to make at least some people happy are a good thing. but that’s the problem with the strictly utilitarian view: it is necessary to properly understand the nature of the possible externalities of such a policy. aum shriyiko, a cult, killed several people in the Japanese metro with poison gas, and on September 11, what was basically a gigantic cult managed to attack the most powerful nation on earth for the first time in centuries. then again, one stumbles into the definition of a cult, which is surprisingly vague. the difference between a cult and a government seems to hinge largely on military might. which, basically, means finances. if bill gates decided to do so, he could probably buy his way into royalty, either by establishing his own kingdom on, say, Antarctica, or, even better, by purchasing the presidency of the united states, and hence control over most of the world. how many billions of dollars went into the creation and sustenance of al-qaeda, tupac amaru, the ezln, the eta, the ira . . . because in truth the main culprit of the current world situation is also its greatest benefactor, and therein lies the irony of this so-called democracy. Hezbollah may have billions of disposable dollars, but Israel has trillions, and as long as people truly believe they are entitled to rule over the rest of the world, they will keep fighting until the other is completely crushed. of course, amazing reverses have occurred in history—the epitome being the American revolution—but the list of lost causes is exponentially larger. not just in terms of revolutionary movements like the boxers and the boers, but in terms of large social movements that people have vested their lives in, like dead constitutional amendment proposals, dead religions like Egyptian mythology, greek mythology, or the shakers, and neo-cults revolving around monetary or other issues, such as the luddites.

should i goto this party-thing? i definitely need to eat something and then i’ll be good to go, but do i want to? i don’t really want to. but part of me is telling me to go anyway just to gather face, basically. is that right, gather face? i wanted to find an angle, but i can’t come up with anything. what do you say? ‘no i’m not ****, i’m just in a lot of physical pain; i just got shot in the arm yesterday’?! and that’s the best one i can come up with.