Well the primary season is nearly ended, I don't care much about the republican race, although I must confess that republicans usually have a more prominent international role than democrats, however their effect on the world is a negative one. The way I see it if McCain is elected present, he will declare war against my country, he will replace this government with one worse than this, and thousands will die in the process. Look at the Bush dynasty, they have been one of the most outstanding warmongers of 20th century, if they could they would declare a world wide war along with civil war and intergalactic wars!!!
Enough about the republicans. For the democrats, well the race is almost over, Barak Obama is gearing up for a national campaign, while Hillary is waiting for the right moment to gracefully bow out (personally I think that time has passed). However for american people I would have said that Hillary had some solid plans at least for my part of expertise which is health care, as much as I didn't like her foreign policy, I hated Obama's campaigning strategy, which I can simply describe as populistic; it may be quite a silly comparison but he reminds me of our president, a populist who can rally masses, but can actually deliver nothing. But it is not for me to say as I am not an American!!!
Now let's look ahead to 2012 presidential elections, I want to purpose two candidates whose run off will be quite fun to watch: Oprah Winfrey Vs. Michael Moore. I think Oprah will participate as a democrate, but how the hell should I know what is Michael Moore's political party (may be Mormon!!!). But one thing I am sure of is that, Oprah will be representing the Corporation of America! and Michael will be representing the Actual People of America! (New Political Entities coming to polling stations near you!!!). Oprah will think that she is running for presidency, for the benefit of the world, people, human rights, Hollywood actors and yes Global Warming! but she is naive, she will save two puppies out of ten million, ten girls out of hundred thousand and so on. She will boast about green life while her talk show is responsible for a major part of global warming (consider the TV hours per day spent watching Oprah and then multiply that by the electricity TVs consume per hour and then multiply that by the amount of Fossil Fuel burnt to produce that electricity and then calculate the proportion of global warming the final sum is contributing to!!!)
But she will have a very effective and powerful weapon, The Media. The greedy corporation run thing! that has access to every soul on the planet (ok fine almost everyone) and by media claim, Oprah is the Philantropist of all time (behind corporation guys like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet) and then there is the matter of money, Oprah will have billions of campaining funds, while Michael will have support of the blue collars who themselves need financial support!!!
However Michael, is a genuine article! He is not blind nor a fool, he will run for descent way of life either in politics, economy or health care; he sees the big picture, but talks in a way that he pisses off enough people. But at least he is honest, which is quite an terrible quality for a president to have. He is my type of hero, ordinary person, ordinary abilities yet with enough ambition and care. He is though but he will be knocked out in the first round of election campaining. He'll lose, no doubt about it.
That election will have many firsts, among them the first african american woman (Oprah) running for presidency (among with her vice president nominee aka friend: Gale!) and the first Triple X large person (Michael) running for the presidency of US of A. Actually Michael's people need to publish two posters for him each containing one half of him!!!
Returning to 2008 presidential contest: Vote for Ralph Nader
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Don Julio Speeches on Anthropological Desalination of Young Minds - Vol. 1 Page 603
If Isaac Asimov was alive and wanted to rewrite his "Caves of Steel " book, he would not have needed to describe a Cosmopolitan city in future, that future is already here, in his book he described cities which if cut off from outside would die within hours. He describes a devaluation of mankind in face of scarcity of resources and population density, a dystopian version of the world where survival of mankind relies on Yeasts and their products. Except the part about Yeasts, the whole idea doesn't seem so far fetched right now.
There are megacities which are housing millions of people, and curiously enough, these people are structured into layers defined by socioeconomic factors (mostly wealth anyway), however the main burden of running these gargantuan cities falls upon the shoulders of the lower layers, and also on the environment. for each mega city there needs to be area at least hundreds of times bigger, in order to simply feed the city. You can actually feel that the city is sucking in, sucking in money, resources, humans and even feelings even our souls. the allure of mega cities, tempts everyone, from way out (like from space) it actually appears like an utopian version of human civilization, even insects mistake it for the moon and fly towards it. however this high density of people has not led to the great solution, instead cities have became breeding grounds for diseases, crimes. Cities are spelling death for everything that human evolution has achieved through the years. In cities, the moral and believes of individuals mix to a degree that from the resulting overall mesh of tangled ideas, no sensible conclusion can be made. A society simply falls to a lower status of being, that of shameless parasitic existence. Long have gone the days of Industrial cities and urban production, cities like Detroit or Liverpool have died, and a new mutated and mutilated entity has been born, actually now, nothing is produced in cities (except pollution), only Service Sector is effectively active, a virtual sector; where the city creates a need, and the city fulfills it, it is a manner of self justification.
The megacity is a monster who breathes in fresh air and exhales deadly carcinogenic fumes, the never saturating monster, expands like a dense bacterial colony, annexes any human settlement around it, joins other megacities and accelerates towards it's inevitable doom. The vastness and the complicated mechanism of survival, becomes it's vulnerability, it's weakness, the city will eventually become paralyzed, all it needs is a trigger, an earthquake, a bomb or ... . The city crumbles, mass riots will rise and the great dystopian motto of every large city "everyone for himself" will become the order of the day. Masses will die, the wealth will be looted and every sign of civilization shall vaporize.
No wonder we create superheroes, the cities will reach the point that nothing humanly possible can save them, although they will reach that point through human means, through human greed, in that moment only a superhero can save this ailing structure. Then Batman should save Guatham city and Spiderman should save New York. Actually it was a great idea to imagine that Robocop will police the streets of Detroit, as the motor city is the classic example of human's failure at reaching the golden dream.
Cities when first formed were crowns of human civilization, a sign of progress, prospect and better future, they grew with civilization and then reached a threshold after which they became a hurdle to humanity and civilization. A Dystopian version of existence.
....You may ask me "so what?" is there anything we can do? well I think not at this moment, we have far passed the point of no return, we either should await that eventual doom's day, armageddon or end of the world, or well we can simply emigrate, where?
To new solutions, even new planets!!!
There are megacities which are housing millions of people, and curiously enough, these people are structured into layers defined by socioeconomic factors (mostly wealth anyway), however the main burden of running these gargantuan cities falls upon the shoulders of the lower layers, and also on the environment. for each mega city there needs to be area at least hundreds of times bigger, in order to simply feed the city. You can actually feel that the city is sucking in, sucking in money, resources, humans and even feelings even our souls. the allure of mega cities, tempts everyone, from way out (like from space) it actually appears like an utopian version of human civilization, even insects mistake it for the moon and fly towards it. however this high density of people has not led to the great solution, instead cities have became breeding grounds for diseases, crimes. Cities are spelling death for everything that human evolution has achieved through the years. In cities, the moral and believes of individuals mix to a degree that from the resulting overall mesh of tangled ideas, no sensible conclusion can be made. A society simply falls to a lower status of being, that of shameless parasitic existence. Long have gone the days of Industrial cities and urban production, cities like Detroit or Liverpool have died, and a new mutated and mutilated entity has been born, actually now, nothing is produced in cities (except pollution), only Service Sector is effectively active, a virtual sector; where the city creates a need, and the city fulfills it, it is a manner of self justification.
The megacity is a monster who breathes in fresh air and exhales deadly carcinogenic fumes, the never saturating monster, expands like a dense bacterial colony, annexes any human settlement around it, joins other megacities and accelerates towards it's inevitable doom. The vastness and the complicated mechanism of survival, becomes it's vulnerability, it's weakness, the city will eventually become paralyzed, all it needs is a trigger, an earthquake, a bomb or ... . The city crumbles, mass riots will rise and the great dystopian motto of every large city "everyone for himself" will become the order of the day. Masses will die, the wealth will be looted and every sign of civilization shall vaporize.
No wonder we create superheroes, the cities will reach the point that nothing humanly possible can save them, although they will reach that point through human means, through human greed, in that moment only a superhero can save this ailing structure. Then Batman should save Guatham city and Spiderman should save New York. Actually it was a great idea to imagine that Robocop will police the streets of Detroit, as the motor city is the classic example of human's failure at reaching the golden dream.
Cities when first formed were crowns of human civilization, a sign of progress, prospect and better future, they grew with civilization and then reached a threshold after which they became a hurdle to humanity and civilization. A Dystopian version of existence.
....You may ask me "so what?" is there anything we can do? well I think not at this moment, we have far passed the point of no return, we either should await that eventual doom's day, armageddon or end of the world, or well we can simply emigrate, where?
To new solutions, even new planets!!!
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