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Dec. 30th, 2002 12:36 amAnother weekend spent mostly indoors. I did clean a little today. Mike is back from his Christmas trip and called this afternoon to see if I wanted to see "The Two Towers" tonight. Hrmmm. All the movies I meant to see this year that I have missed - among them Spirited Away, Punch-Drunk Love, and Adaptation - and now I am gonna go see this thing for a third time? Eh sure why not. I had nothing going here.
Mike came by after the movie and we talked for a bit. It is good to have him back. I tried to put into words the thoughts I have been having lately about how people largely base their opinions on trying to please (or conform to) some peer or reference group, or in some cases define themselves in opposition to the same (e.g. Ted Kaczynski). I was not successful. The path from the mind to the tongue or the fingers is twisty and perilous, and the thoughts that venture forth often malformed, spastic. They choke. I have tried to tell him before about how I think humans are sort of hardwired for hierarchy, how I suspect slavery was more the norm than the exception in all of our history. What is this a science fiction novel? Nah. Maybe someday a tract, some pamplet to be pressed upon you, and in exchange you could give me a little something to help me buy a bite to eat, or to pay for a room for the night.
I am going in to work tomorrow for some amount of time, then not working the two days after that. The present New Year's Eve options are not appealing to me. It happens. Some years just work out better than others. I don't mind quiet.
More self-indulgence in the form of more useless opinions:
This clone business: I can't keep all the science in my head, but I am skeptical of the claims. I would prefer that people not attempt to clone humans at the moment, based on what I have read of the animal results to date, but I see no sense in banning cloning.
North Korea: We can't police the world. I don't care for them having atomic weapons but there is a lot I don't like about North Korea. It needs to be a matter for their neighbors, not us around the globe here. The South Koreans seem to be sour on our involvement anyway.
Iraq: Yes it's a horrible torture state. I am not sure how you address that. Sometimes there are no good clean answers. They do keep violating the various UN terms to which they agreed (shooting daily at U.S./British planes in the southern no-fly zone, for example), but I'm chicken over the prospect of war. Granted North Korea today does give us a pretty clear picture of where appeasing a dictatorship leads.
Ah I'm all wishy-washy anyway.
Mike came by after the movie and we talked for a bit. It is good to have him back. I tried to put into words the thoughts I have been having lately about how people largely base their opinions on trying to please (or conform to) some peer or reference group, or in some cases define themselves in opposition to the same (e.g. Ted Kaczynski). I was not successful. The path from the mind to the tongue or the fingers is twisty and perilous, and the thoughts that venture forth often malformed, spastic. They choke. I have tried to tell him before about how I think humans are sort of hardwired for hierarchy, how I suspect slavery was more the norm than the exception in all of our history. What is this a science fiction novel? Nah. Maybe someday a tract, some pamplet to be pressed upon you, and in exchange you could give me a little something to help me buy a bite to eat, or to pay for a room for the night.
I am going in to work tomorrow for some amount of time, then not working the two days after that. The present New Year's Eve options are not appealing to me. It happens. Some years just work out better than others. I don't mind quiet.
More self-indulgence in the form of more useless opinions:
This clone business: I can't keep all the science in my head, but I am skeptical of the claims. I would prefer that people not attempt to clone humans at the moment, based on what I have read of the animal results to date, but I see no sense in banning cloning.
North Korea: We can't police the world. I don't care for them having atomic weapons but there is a lot I don't like about North Korea. It needs to be a matter for their neighbors, not us around the globe here. The South Koreans seem to be sour on our involvement anyway.
Iraq: Yes it's a horrible torture state. I am not sure how you address that. Sometimes there are no good clean answers. They do keep violating the various UN terms to which they agreed (shooting daily at U.S./British planes in the southern no-fly zone, for example), but I'm chicken over the prospect of war. Granted North Korea today does give us a pretty clear picture of where appeasing a dictatorship leads.
Ah I'm all wishy-washy anyway.
