dan_oz (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dan_oz) wrote,@ 2008-04-16 12:21:00 |
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Resume!
I was poked and reminded that I haven't written here in forever. It's not that I have nothing to say, it's more that I get distracted and don't feel like typing it all out. I will typically change my mind and think of side-points as I go, and it makes a journal a daunting task for me, because I have issues "summing up" and stopping any given post. I've considered a whole heck-ton of posts, including:
Steroids, and how we're truly seeing how prominent they have been in sports.
Nice days, and how they cause INDOOR gyms to become packed with people.
The NBA, and how awesome the Western Conference race has been - not to mention the upcoming playoffs. Go Buzzards!
T&A - the greatness thereof.
Video games, and a few ideas I had that I wish someone would address.
But I figure the one that pops up in my head the most these days is, sadly, a minor rant on a particular sin. It's not one of the 7 Deadlies - well, I guess it's a form of one - but it really bugs the shit out of me, and it is:
Reproductive Gluttony.
No joke. I can't stand reproduction way beyond sanity. I mean, why don't people see that there's really a finite amount of resources on Earth, and that each person consumes a portion of those resources ... Americans amazingly moreso than most. Why do we make reality shows out of these idiots rather than viewing them with a certain measure of disgust? They need multiple honkin' SUVs to drag around their little brood, and seem entirely focused on just "getting by" because they 8 kids. If more were like them, the world population would almost quadruple in a single generation - and all of those new people would need cars and food some slice of energy that we haven't yet figured out how to produce without melting our planet. Idiots!
Ohhh, but wait - they had fertility treatments! That's the only reason that had 8! Uh huh ... they had them AFTER the first set of twins. Hey - you had two, that's enough - stop it. No no, don't do tha ... great, 6 more. What about religious issues and the bans on birth control by God-types? Ouchy, that's a tough one. You know, though, if Godly people were really responsible, abstinence is a great birth control. Look at overpopulation and your required lack of sex as a modern trial, straight out of the old texts! I know I know, I'm being slow - God will provide for us.
Lack of perception regarding this problem staggers me. I love people that note how the price of gold keeps going up -- well duh, there are a ton of women out there that all want wedding rings ... they have to come from somewhere, and we can make people way faster than we can find new places to mine gold. That's just one concrete example- but ALL resources are exactly the same.
Places like this give me some hope:
http://www.edu.ue-foundation.org/in
They seem to have the same ideas that I do, even if they haven't moved on them a tremendous amount. I'm sure these things have a lot of inertia.
Well, whatever. I suppose that's enough apocalyptic anxiety for one day, I just really hope that things like "the food riots" manage to hold off for a decent while. In the meantime, I'll continue to be disgusted by the morons with 12 kids.
See? I started strong, and then got too much to write. I started chopping bits up and using "short versions" and it doesn't come out right. Oh well.
I was poked and reminded that I haven't written here in forever. It's not that I have nothing to say, it's more that I get distracted and don't feel like typing it all out. I will typically change my mind and think of side-points as I go, and it makes a journal a daunting task for me, because I have issues "summing up" and stopping any given post. I've considered a whole heck-ton of posts, including:
Steroids, and how we're truly seeing how prominent they have been in sports.
Nice days, and how they cause INDOOR gyms to become packed with people.
The NBA, and how awesome the Western Conference race has been - not to mention the upcoming playoffs. Go Buzzards!
T&A - the greatness thereof.
Video games, and a few ideas I had that I wish someone would address.
But I figure the one that pops up in my head the most these days is, sadly, a minor rant on a particular sin. It's not one of the 7 Deadlies - well, I guess it's a form of one - but it really bugs the shit out of me, and it is:
Reproductive Gluttony.
No joke. I can't stand reproduction way beyond sanity. I mean, why don't people see that there's really a finite amount of resources on Earth, and that each person consumes a portion of those resources ... Americans amazingly moreso than most. Why do we make reality shows out of these idiots rather than viewing them with a certain measure of disgust? They need multiple honkin' SUVs to drag around their little brood, and seem entirely focused on just "getting by" because they 8 kids. If more were like them, the world population would almost quadruple in a single generation - and all of those new people would need cars and food some slice of energy that we haven't yet figured out how to produce without melting our planet. Idiots!
Ohhh, but wait - they had fertility treatments! That's the only reason that had 8! Uh huh ... they had them AFTER the first set of twins. Hey - you had two, that's enough - stop it. No no, don't do tha ... great, 6 more. What about religious issues and the bans on birth control by God-types? Ouchy, that's a tough one. You know, though, if Godly people were really responsible, abstinence is a great birth control. Look at overpopulation and your required lack of sex as a modern trial, straight out of the old texts! I know I know, I'm being slow - God will provide for us.
Lack of perception regarding this problem staggers me. I love people that note how the price of gold keeps going up -- well duh, there are a ton of women out there that all want wedding rings ... they have to come from somewhere, and we can make people way faster than we can find new places to mine gold. That's just one concrete example- but ALL resources are exactly the same.
Places like this give me some hope:
http://www.edu.ue-foundation.org/in
They seem to have the same ideas that I do, even if they haven't moved on them a tremendous amount. I'm sure these things have a lot of inertia.
Well, whatever. I suppose that's enough apocalyptic anxiety for one day, I just really hope that things like "the food riots" manage to hold off for a decent while. In the meantime, I'll continue to be disgusted by the morons with 12 kids.
See? I started strong, and then got too much to write. I started chopping bits up and using "short versions" and it doesn't come out right. Oh well.
