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Archive for March, 2008
Words mean nothing
Mar 28th
Words are the biggest farce in history. So much of what has happened in our world is because of the definition given to a collection of letters which jumbled around can be given an entirely different definition. This makes no sense to me…Not only do people abide by the assigned definitions but they wage wars over them. Politicians and news agencies focus on the “language” which another leader was using as if this somehow denotes his intention. All intentions are a façade built up around an appropriate illusion. If you don’t believe me, try ask yourself if what I have said makes any sense, pay particular attention to the structure of the words, idiot…..
Words are illusions, a word can mean anything, we choose to give them a particular definition but that doesn’t mean that that word defines that object or emotion. An apple is not an apple, we don’t actually know what it is, we may call it an apple so that we can all identify it and have common knowledge when referring to everyday objects or emotions or concepts, but, this does not change the fact that the thing that fell on Newton’s head, is not an apple.
Why do we try over analyse what people say. Its not about what anyone is saying, its about how they are saying it….the tone, the tempo, the volume and most importantly, the look in their eye. One can make any sentence mean any other sentence with enough thought on how to mimic the non-verbal communication that such a sentence would invoke. Give it a shot.
To EQ or not to IQ
Mar 28th
Perhaps what I am actually trying to say is, is strong spirituality an excuse or perhaps, a solution, for low EQ. I wonder….As an atheist I am generally abstracted and disassociated from the religious oblivions that most people thrust upon themselves every day. Is my ability to question, to reason logically even in the most dire of circumstances one of chance or is it a function of a lifetime of anti-authority moulding….
Most belief systems that I created for myself, I did so when I was 6 years old. Time since them has allowed me to refine them but remarkably, none of them have been shaken…….I am still atheist, pro gay marriage, pro abortion and pro death penalty. These are the very surface level issues which my intellect concerns itself with. The more important stuff needs more blog posts…
If you only rely on your IQ, even a high one, to get you through life, you are bound to run into trouble. Intelligence without cause or more accurately, intelligence without emotional control is like calling yourself a freedom fighter, period. You can have all the brains in the world, be capable of creating the most beautiful strategies but without a good dose of emotional stability and intuition, you will be never understand how and why you do what you do, react the way you react and make the choices you do. You will commit yourself to a lifetime of self begrudging and mutilation because you fail to understand your own soul, hence how the hell are you gonna understand anyone else’s with enough clarity that you can make lasting and powerful relationships??
Having a high EQ means you understand how and why you react, how and why you have the opinions you do, how and why you have the relationships you have, and most importantly it allows you to make corrections in the above, not only in yourself but also in others. This is because you can figure them out better than they can figure themselves out. This runs the risk of manipulation of others but fuck why not……
So does this mean I possess all this, give me 5 minutes with you and I may or may not use the information against you. It is quite funny though to notice the lack of EQ around you. Just look at your friends and family, watch their reactions to everything, their body language, how they need to have their ego stroked every 5 seconds. Make special notice of how it perturbs them that you don’t. The greatest threat you can pose to a weak ego is to let them insult you or try and think they won the argument without any fight back from you. They don’t realise it consciously but deep down something says to them, this person will fuck me up…Sorry I’m listening to very aggressive Techno at the moment…….
Now don’t read this and think this guy is an arrogant prick, yes I know that’s exactly what you are thinking. All that means is that while reading this you are thinking to yourself, “shit maybe this guy is smarter than me, this cant be, we need to hate him or call him arrogant to settle our ego a bit, or perhaps we need to make ourselves believe his beliefs and knowledge are a product of his environment, not his IQ or EQ, I dunno, which is it, I’m confused”. Sound familiar, this is the same reaction you have to anyone who challenges you in an argument, says something clever which you didn’t come up with and generally every few seconds.
Now you know, fix it.
What music means to me
Mar 28th
“I’ll never forget you“. Those haunting words that echo through my grey matter on all but the least inspiring moments of life. Its without the music that I would cease, its my core, its my soul, its not just a matter of beats or melodies, its about the compromise of life, the ridiculous reasons for everything, the joy and sorrow.
I treasure those electronic sounds to a level of pure infatuation because without them I would not know how to define myself. I think in terms of memorable song moments and indulge in the richness of its symphony. It gives me that adrenalin rush that I need to calm my intelligence and to sober up to the realisation that I have to act like everyone else.
How could I live without it.
Chasing the freedom dragon
Mar 28th
Those of you not living in one of Johannesburg, Rio or Mexico City will probably not be able to rationalise this article because its issue simply has never needed to entered into your skull. You live in a place where you are not being held hostage by a ruthless, violent society and a government whose only saving grace is that its ignorance is greater than its stupidity….you don’t live in a jungle of anxiety, besieged by complete disregard for life and basic human rights. You live in a place where people acknowledge that AIDS cannot be cured by garlic and beetroot and your president most likely is not awaiting trial for fraud following his previous fraud and rape trials. Fuck innocent until proven guilty, the wanker shouldn’t be there!!! Another laughing stock amidst the running joke that is African union.
I cant sleep and its pissing me off. Two weeks ago some mother fuckers broke into our house through the window on the balcony on the second fucking floor!! I mean the fuckers deserve an A+ for effort! Now I am constantly waiting, patiently, for it to happen again, night after night, desperately seeking the inevitable like the day is long. Maybe this time I can be there when it happens or be awake when it happens or be aware that it is happening….We are so fucking desensitised that when a 6 day old baby gets raped we think for about 5 seconds how kuk that is and how we don’t want it to happen to us and then we carry on facebooking.
Freedom is not a privilege, its a fucking right or is that what all the 6 year old Zimbabwean war veterans forgot about….Irony is the reverse of guilt my friends and if you don’t understand that then you have just proved it. Only when we are all in London or Sydney will they be happy, and they bitch at us for Apartheid, fucking Nazi’s!
Programmers and Chakras
Mar 28th
I’m at a general loss for words when surrounded by the the people who possess the rare ability to be both extremely clever and yet lack a decided dose of smart. What do I mean by this? Is this some sort of gross generalisation of all academically intelligent people who forever more will be typecast into a range of pseudo stereotypes? Absolutely!!!
You see they are all the same, they are all driven by the same sort of phenomena….their undying quest to ensure that their ego is scratched at least 100 times a day! Obviously this is something shared by all of us, but what I have always found so startling is the range to which the uber intelligent are willing to expose themselves to exploitation just for a little bit of self indulgence. They will work enormous hours, absorb mountains of punishment and go back for seconds all because they need to feel smarter than the next person in order to extract an ounce of fulfilment from this life. When will they realise my favourite quote: “The smartest man in a room is the one who gets all the clever people to do the work for him”.
We are an army of morbid disciples whose entire self-worth is wrapped up in those few occasions when we get to snigger at the person who the boss craps on for something which we did yesterday….very sad indeed. Its like something which I read in some book…..When we do well, its because of our intellect, when we do badly its because of our environment. When others do well its because of their environment, when others do badly, its because of their intellect. I love it!!
If the average Joe could just realise that ego and its self deluded obsessions are without doubt the greatest waste of energy, waste of money, waste of talent and waste of time then we could become a more harmonious civilisation, one whose aim is to achieve the best result for the group, not the individual. Can you imagine a society where men ask for directions, people ask questions when they don’t understand, people trust the judgement of others implicitly because they realise that there is always someone better, faster or stronger…..this is where I wanna live! Boring you say, perhaps a bit, but aren’t you a bit sick of all the survival of the fittest BS??? All one has to do is look to the US for a few thousand examples of how to fuck up a society and you soon realise that we are gonna need all the ascended masters in existence to get us out of this one….
