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Lots of fun and games going on in Ukraine.  I'm not sure how much is on Prime Time (since I don't have TV), but things are starting to get really interesting.

For instance, take this new development.

A few highlights:

PROTESTERS were massing when, suddenly, thousands of cell-phones chimed in unison: "Dear subscriber ... you are a participant in a mass disturbance". It's real. It just happened in Ukraine.


Among the draconian measures introduced this week are:
-Participating in "mass disruptions" will incur 10-15 years imprisonment

-You can be convicted by a court in absentia

-MPs can be arrested during sessions of parliament

-It is forbidden to drive a car in a column larger than five vehicles long.

-It is illegal to set up an unauthorised sound system

-You will be jailed for 15 days if you put up a tent

-Distributing "extremist opinion" will attract a three-year jail term

-Group violation of public orders will land you in the cooler for two years

-The government can disable the internet at will

-Many are interpreting the moves as a deliberate attempt to incite unrest in order to invoke even more extreme legislation.

The opposition leader looks like he knows his days are numbered.

``Tomorrow we will go forward together,'' Yatsenyuk told a crowd of tens of thousands of demonstrators. ``And if it's a bullet in the forehead, then it's a bullet in the forehead, but in an honest, fair and brave way.''

After a comment like that, though, I doubt he'll be shot, which is probably why Yanukovych added that bit about arresting MPs.

I have no idea, but I'm going there next week as part of my job.

So... anybody know anything about the joint? 

Hello again.  Been a while.  How are you all doing?  ECH, gratz on the new rectum.  Weaponized.  Very impressive.

Once, long ago, I started looking for either a Tar Baby or a Briar Patch (preferably both). Cain might remember.  Something...  I wasn't looking for something to smash the system so much as gum up the works.

About that time I stopped coming by and posting because of reasons.  Now that those reasons are well known and widespread I think it's time to discuss what to do about them.

One of the biggest problems facing intelligence analysts is information overload.  In the broader sense, this is a vexing problem; separating the needles from the haystack. In a world where governments are collecting every bit of internet interaction they can find on everyone everywhere makes for a very big haystack indeed.  With enough data they can know what a specific individual might do before that person ever knows they want to do it.  But that condition only obtains when all of the data is true and relevant.  With an infinitely powerful magnet it is simple to pull those needles out of that haystack.

But what if it wasn't a haystack, but a pile of needles?

I've been poking around looking for a plugin or program that can do this, but I haven't found it yet.  What I'm thinking of is something that would work a bit like stumble.  You set a profile of "interests" and it goes off and visits a bunch of sites for you.  It crawls all over the web, pretending to be you looking at... whatever.  A well crafted program could do something clever such as look at what you're really looking at and then scurry off and hit opposing points of interest.  The end result is that the folks gathering data, if they ever have cause to look at YOU directly will find that their amazing database of magical everything is really just a pile of steaming fecal matter.  Moreover, if enough people use it, it will impact the statistcal and traffic analytical models in interesting ways.

My background is in RF and things.  I could design you a true random generator, but I have no idea how to go about coding something like this.  I'd imagine it would have to be a shell or launcher for another browser, or something.  Does anyone have an idea of how to pull something like this off, or if it's even possible?

Anyway, that's all I have for now.  The rest of my thoughts are just cock, repost, and fail.

Cheers!

I have been promoted to more work.

It's a curious thing.  I took this job because Arizona is full of suck and I haven't been able to find a job for over a year.  The pay is like ass (only I'd rather have ass than the meager amount of pay I'm receiving, I can get more mileage out of ass), and there are no truly redeeming qualities to anything at this company.

But, being the useful little asstard that I am, I was determined to Make Something of Myself^tm.  So I stepped up and started doing all the things I saw needed doing (fucking you Marine Corpse for infecting me with the NCO meme).  Next thing I know some global level VP knows my name and I'm getting a job offer....  Oh, and the #2 guy here fucks off to Italy and I get to do his job while he's away.

So... yeah.  On the bright side I think I'm about to get my salary doubled...  Now if they'd only pay me in actual ass I'd have a nice ménage à trois over here...

So I was reading this little review over here, and it occurred to me that sometimes people are only riding along on the correct motorcycle.

Neither Katniss nor the author ever really questions the moral underpinnings of the games themselves -- the idea of children being forced to perform in gladiator contests and fighting to the death, for the amusement of the citizenry. Katniss just wants to win.

It's this approach right here that gives me giggle fits.  Everyone is so busy fapping to the naked emperor that they fail to fully appreciate his wardrobe.

Which makes me wonder how better to illustrate the kink in the think of all the primates polluting my planet.  Or do their tiny minds slide off the uncomfortable surface of reality and back to their "happy place"?

I have a button labeled "Angry Misanthropic Shithead" which is invoked by Judeo-Christian-Islamic references, and the retarded.  When invoked the mental gears start screeching and grinding, sometimes quite audibly.  I'd just like to apologize if the noise in my head bothers you.

Thank you for your consideration.

wandering the internets, when suddenly I find myself back here once again.

Why am I back?  I keep asking myself that as well.  I think it has to do with having a job that requires very little processor time on the ol' noggin.  Plenty of time to hang out here, it would seem.

I have a tendency to think a lot and without ever saying anything, so I doubt I left much of an impression the last time I showed my face in these parts.  I am reminded of a proverb about wiseguys, fools, and how the two are related to open mouths, however, so perhaps it was for the best.

At any rate, this place looks like it's the same as when I left it.  There are some new faces here, plus the same old faces with shiny new nicks and all their favorite alts.  (waves at alts)  I can't tell who is who, for the most part, but I'm sure I'll figure it out in time.  At least Roger is still Roger.  Not that he could be anybody else (I don't think anybody else would let him, tbh).

btw, I've been wading my way back through the BIP.  I tried once before when y'all were redisassemblifying it but got hit with a massive case of ADD/tl;dr.  Funny thing is, I feel as if I've already read it already.  or something.

And, no, there wasn't any point to this post other than to de-lurkify myself.

It's true.  Nothing can go wrong.  Ever.

Seriously.  It's impossible.  Try it.  What?  Shit fucked up on you?  Oh, so that's why you think something went wrong.  What you are really saying is that shit didn't turn out the way you planned.  Well, why don't you go do the same thing you did before?  Right?  You were so sure it would work the first time, maybe the results were just a fluke.

Oh...?  What's that you say?  You can't do the same thing again because it won't succeed, just like what happened the first go round.  I get it now.  So nothing actually went wrong then, did it?  No laws of physics were violated?  No supernatural or metaphysical interference?  Good.  Glad we got that settled.

So why, pray tell, did you expect it to have succeeded in the first place?  There was something you didn't know, wasn't there?  Ah.  I suspected as much.  So if it all boils down to what you may or may not know, why do you keep insisting that anything can ever go wrong?  Events will play out precisely as they are meant to do in accordance with natural law.  You just need to get a fucking clue, mate.

This post is very serious.  So serious, in fact, that it is... well... serious.  Seriously.

If anyone has anything the least bit serious to say, please put it in this thread.  We'd like to keep the rest of PeeDeeDotCom free of seriousness.  This is the internet, after all.

Thank you for your cooperation.

I can't do funnay, so...

You were warned.

I was reading 1984 and got to chapter 2 when my brain started to shit this annoying crap:

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   Children will flock towards organizations which recognize and reinforce their budding sense of self.  When denied access to such organizations they form their own.  It is as natural as breathing and as desirable as fucking.  Nothing can stop it.  Nothing can prevent it.  It is hardwired into the genes.  All that can be done is to direct and control it.

   Some societies understand this.  Some don't.  When the need for organization and recognition is catered to, the children fall straight into line.  They require a life external to the household.  They crave it like a drug.  They need it more desperately than sex.  It nourishes their lives and their souls in ways nothing else can.

   Fulfilling this need is simplicity itself.  Modern civilization meets these needs with carefully contrived paradigms wherein their children are allowed to govern their own behavior according to previously agreed upon rules of conduct.  The most convenient form of such an organization is the sports team.  The sport doesn't matter so long as it is physical and allows the children to compete for domination among their peers.  Natural leaders inevitably arise, star players reveal themselves, and everyone shares in the harmonious glow of mutually cooperative combative behavior.

   Other outlets for this behavioral requirement exist.  Every culture harbors their own private youth paramilitary organization.  Possessing everything except weapons, these organizations harness the self-organizing tribal impulse and firmly lash it to a nationally recognized entity.  Core values beholden to the host culture are taught, reinforced and rewarded.

   When such tools are denied to children, however, they will create their own tribes in the form of youth gangs.  In these instances their behavior is regulated by adaptation to their real world situation rather than the fictitious constraints of a fantasy world.  The need to eat being a primary day-to-day motivation of all animal species, these gangs will focus their activities towards revenue-generation by any means at their disposal.  Being that legitimate businesses require operating capital, government regulated licensing and oversite, and many other legal and monetary barriers, the only possible source of income for gangs is necessarily extra legal.

   The economies which develop among the youth gangs of "civilized" countries invariably center around drugs and prostitution.  These are two industries which are, by their very nature, are self-renewing and always in demand.  Drug manufacturers are always looking for outlets for their product, so sources are relatively simple to procure.  Prostitution is even simpler since roughly half the population anywhere is female, and any female can be utilized to generate a profit.

   In these criminal economies we see, at least during their infancy, completely unrestricted capitalism.  Business owners exploit the maximum resources they can manage while demanding the absolute highest prices the market can bear.  Initially everyone involved acquires cash far in excess of what they could in the legitimate market at their skill level.  This quickly creates extreme instabilities in the host community.

   With money comes power.  People have proven time and again to be willing to do absolutely anything in exchange for money.  The power that comes with having money, the independence from the fear of starvation, the intoxicating feel of exerting influence upon others, has at its roots the basic traits of human tribal culture bonding; competition and dominance.  Because individuals as organisms respond favorably to the postive reinforcement caused by endorphins released in response to their position of domination and well being, this realization of power becomes addictive.

   If left uncontrolled, dominance-seeking impulses coupled with sufficient funding inevitably result in coups and wars.  However, the mechanism that allows these wars are also the means to curtail them.  As these self-organizing societies evolve, eventually the dominant organisms at the top being to realize the threat posed by those below them.  Quite frequently the threat posed by ones subordinates is never fully appreciated since the controls which make them subordinant in the first place are the same ones which typically keep them under control, and so are taken for granted.

   The proper means for maintaining a status quo is for the dominant organsim(s) to deprive those below them of the means to realize independence from the fear of starvation.  This is typically accomplished by forcing them into the role of gathering revenue.  This serves the triumvirate function of reinforcing the leader's dominance, providing the proletariat with their means of living, and simultaneously consuming the proles' ability to act.

   Interestingly, these controls can be seen at all levels of society.  The vast majority of the population is deprived of the means of financial independence since the possession of such would undermine the stability of society as a whole.  Conversely, it can be argued that the absence from the fear of starvation will decrease any motivation towards mutually cooperative dominance behaviors.  However, imbalances will always exist in any social model, so it would only be a matter of time before the slightest instability escalated to the point where auto-organization occured and a new "gang" was born.  Perhaps more troubling is the realization that in any would-be utopian society, the animalistic urge for peer group recognition, self-organization and domination is guaranteed to create new and unpredicatable groups unless those urges are very carefully controlled.

   It is therefore imperitive to exert control on the greatest number of individuals possible within society starting at the earliest possible age.  Previously religion was used as the primary tool for establishing core values among members with a single national identity.  Ethnic values were also woven into the tapestry in order to differentiate one nation-group from another.  With the power of religion on the wan and multi-culturalism begining to supplant monolithic ethnic nationalism, new controls are needed.  In large part sports are able to fulfill the role previously played by religion.  They provide an outlet for auto-organization impulses and serve to occupy most of the free-time of the population at large.

   But not everyone worships at the altars of the NFL, NBA or MLB (or whatever national sports team you have).  For the sports-meme resistant the powers-that-be are desperately trying to find something to lure and occupy their interests.  For these people there is the internet.  So far it is a playground for auto-organizing entities, most of which are completely harmless beyond the series of tubes which spawned them, but don't be fooled.  Those in control are very much aware that there is an international conspiracy of independantly minded individuals who are resistant to traditional controls.  And they are still trying to figure out what the fuck to do about it.

   The only thing you can be sure of, given recent developments in SW Asia, is that when they don't know quite how to go about controlling something, then they'll just go ahead and cut off your fucking intertubes.


   I'm going to go back to keeping my fucking mouth shut.  That is all.
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Note:  This was just a thought that passed through my head.  I felt like putting it on the infotarded superdriveway hoping it would get picked up by a pleasant serial killer truck driver.
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Kill the Lights.


That's all you have to do.

So stop worrying, and go see what's on TV....

Seriously.

As some of you know, I'm a gamer.  So I was over on the forums of planetelderscrolls when I got threatened with bannination by a scary powerful admin personage.  This threat was about my .sig.  You see, there I have a much more clever sig than here.

To explain, I'm a punk, and probably will be for life.  In the game everybody wants to be a vampire for some fucktarded reason.  This reminded me of FANG (punk band from the '80's I used to see at the Mab in SF), and that reminded me of one of their great songs "Destroy the handicapped".

I couldn't find the ultra-cool Fang logo (it was a graphic with the band name drawn to look like, well, fangs..  Pantera has recently ripped off this pattern but not with the same effect).  Lacking the graphic, but with the lyrics stuck in my head I made my sig "Destroy the handicapped".  And sonovabitch if those kooky admins didn't decide that my sig was "offensive" and promoted genocide (I didn't know that there was a race of handicapped people on this planet, but whatever...)

I couldn't reach through the intranet tubes to throttle the smarmy little admin bitch (as much as I would have loved to do so), but eventually reason got the better of me.  Arguing with a petty tyrant is the second most retarded thing you can do on the internet, but I did get a little worked up over it.  It's been a while since anybody has triggered my kill reflexes and the adrenaline rush was quite nice.  It's a different kind of buzz than say, bungee-jumping over a crocodile pit.  Similar, but different.

Anyway, that moment reminded me of the Horrible Truth from which the world around us cowers in fear.  I hadn't thought about the Truth in the context of something as inane as a gaming forum.  I mean, really.  Everybody is there to discuss the "roleplaying" endeavors of racially motivated home invasions, mass murder and grand larceny, so I thought they'd be a little more tolerant of humorously violent viewpoints.

Apparently not.

Which is why this place is much more friendly than a make believe discussion group.  Sure, if you say something stupid here you'll get assreamed nine ways from next Thursday.  Fuck, you'd deserve it, too.  In that regard, however, this forum is absolutely tolerant.  None of that fake "we don't tolerate intolerance" bullshit.  Fuck, I hate that.

I'm just rambling so I'll shut up now.  If I had a point I forgot it.

(btw, I'm currently trying to stir up a religious controversy over there.....) 

Humanity lives in a state of perpetual homeostasis.  For whatever controls are enacted upon human lifestyles, all humans react to reach equilibrium within their environment.

I'll give you an example.  Speed limits.  Eons ago the Powers-That-Be(tm) enacted strict speed limits on all American highways.  The idea was to slow people down and save lives.  The result...  no effective net change in traffic fatalities.  People compensated for the new safety measure by being less careful about seat belts, following distance, etc.  More recently these arbitrary speed limits have been raised or eliminated in most regions.  The result...  no net change in traffic fatalities.  Traffic does move smoother now....

The point being this:  arbitrary controls which are contrary to human nature will be obviated by changes in human behaviour.

A better example of this is the sexual repression of the Christian Church(tm).  Christian elders have something against sex, sexual pleasure, and human happiness.  I really have no idea why since it goes against everything everyone really wants to do.  And this creates a problem.

Perhaps the pinnacle of Christian stupidity are the Puritans.  They got their asses kicked out of England because nobody there wanted to put up with their shit anymore.  The Puritan ideal is still the foundation for all American morals.  However, for all their "no sex out of wedlock" bullshit, their own records from the time show how 80% of firstborn children were born to couples married less than 8 months.  Things that make you go, hmmmmm..........

So, obviously, the more They(tm) try to control things, the faster things fall apart (yes, I know we all know this already).  And so that brings me to wonder just what are They(tm) trying to accomplish with all these controls?

I mean, really.  What is the point?

I was pondering this whilst driving in to work this morning.  What is it that makes anyone want to "control" other people with thoughts and actions?  And more so, why do people get so upset over thoughts?  At this point I'm thinking primarily of the evolution/creation "debate" (to use the term loosely), with the Fundies getting all hot and bothered at the mere notion that human beings weren't "poofed" into existence by their dear and fluffy lord.

It all makes me think.  Is there a chink in their armor of Faith?  Do they really know, deep down inside, that they are dissociating reality with their beliefs?  That their violent oppression of everything around them is the only way for that tiny voice inside them to be heard?  Is that voice trying to destroy the fabric of oppression so it can be free once more?

I wonder.........

I was ranting to a coworker about this to the point of unintelligiblity, so rather than continue to froth at the mouth I have come here to vent my spleen.

Dr. Phil is an asshole.  Not just a mildly unpleasant individual, but a dyed-in-the-wool class-A asshole.  This is made worse by the fact that he (and apparently the rest of the world) think he is doing good.  He isn't.  That is because he is a complete asshole.

I was hard pressed to find a single good thing to say about the man.  I thought about pointing out his baldness as some sort of positive, but that would have been disingenuous of me.  Then upon greater reflection it occurred to me that occasionally he advises his victims to tell the assholes in their life to sod off.  So there, his one virtue, advising idiots when to tell assholes to get fucked.

Of course this message never really sinks through the thick cranial carapaces of the Philophiles.  If it were so, then they would promptly tell that pompous windbag to stuff it.

All he ever does it get people to say outloud what they already know, then he makes some kind of sweeping generalization about their situation as if that is any sort of constructive approach.  Worse is how he deprives them of their own ability to analyze and cope with the situation on their own (and by extension everyone in the viewing audience).

What we have is a self righteous asshole with pre-packaged idiocy for the masses.  He instructs people not to think for themselves, rather to subscribe to his way of thinking. He doesn't promote free thought, he drains it of power, replacing fresh ideas with rituals and coping mechanisms which lock people into a self destructive social paradigm.

But then again, they are all just cabbages, so fuck them.  They deserve it for not seeing what a fraud Dr. Phil really is.

I have tried to support an oddball theory that Dr. Phil is doing some kind of grand mindfuck, but in reverse.  His goal is to trap people in the cabbage state instead of illuminating them.  Then I rejected that theory simply because...

... he is an asshole.

Another peeve of mine.

In art, language is everything.  Since literature is art, I should qualify my language before proceeding.

Religion = An (evil) organized system of control couched in terms of ritual and blind obedience

Spirituality = Staring at one's navel or pineal gland (relative to some quantity of flax, for some unfathomable reason)

For starters, I utterly reject the notion that there is a separation between one's mind and one's body.  This is the path to insanity.  We are all meat.  We are made of meat.  We think with meat.  And we eat meat.  (vegans are also meat as well as a source of vegetables in your daily diet).  Vegans also lie about eating meat, although they are delicious.

Cabbages confuse attacks on all forms of religion as attacks on spirituality.  They are, obviously, quite wrong.  Religion is, to put it bluntly, something someone else invented.  Spirituality is about thinking up your own bullshit.  Either way let us make one thing clear.  There is no magic.  (sorry... mahdgjihque).  Get it?  No such thing.

People who believe in magic are deserving of unrestrained ridicule.  I am continually amazed (though I should be over my shock by now) that seemingly intelligent beings still believe in magic.  Observe the number of people who claim to believe in God.  It is mind boggling.  Granted, they were brainwashed at an early age, but that shouldn't be an excuse once they attain majority.  More to the point, the world is ruled by extremely dangerous people who believe in magical nonsense.

Now, you're probably saying that whether there is a god or not is unknowable, but I say that view point is guilty of precisely the same unthinking dissociation I mentioned in my previous rant.  If you still insist there is a God, then defend your belief in mahdgjique and face the facts.  Everything "supernatural" is magic, pure and simple.

Religion makes this situation even worse.  They don't leave well enough alone.  If it was all about spirituality and becoming a "better you" (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean) then I probably could care less.  As it stands however, Religions attempt to stamp their own impression on their followers' spritual growth.  This is not spirtuality.  It is anathema to life itself.

I have more to say, but I'll leave it for later.

I never have anything actually interesting to say, so you can stop reading now.  I will only bore you with my tired little tirade.  This isn't funny.

Now, what I really came here to say.  Religion is wrong-headed and dangerous to mental health.  It also has absolutely no redeeming self-worth.  Don't start whining about charities and free loot hand-out programs.  There may be some religious nuts who do those things with their tax-free money, but it isn't like those are good things anyway.  That's another problem with human beings; they think that charities are good things.  They aren't.  Someone needs some shit they don't have so a bunch of guilt ridden loons get together and give it to the pathetic losers.  Yay, that's a good thing alright.  Uh-huh.... Blow it out your ass like the shit that it is.

First on the list of problems with religious thought is the way that religion inspired dogma is the root cause of a variety of dissociative disorders.  We see this problem every day in everyone we encounter.  Their church/temple/mosque inspired blinders prevent people from seeing things plainly and honestly.  They cling to their little world of make believe fairies and invisible pink unicorns like a crack whore sucking a dealer's dick.  They really don't need it, but it gets them what they think they need, so they ignore the fact that they fervently believe in the silliest shit any human mind has ever invented.  The holes in their thinking become strikingly obvious when they try to explain what they really believe in a rational manner.

Prayer is also big on my list of self-indulgent bullshit.  Just what in the fuck is prayer supposed to accomplish?  Who do they think they're kidding?  I imagine that people who pray for shit they need are like those bratty little kids you see at the store bugging their mother for things until she caves in.  Do they think their God(tm) is like that?  That if they just pester their dear and fluffy lord enough that he'll suddenly change his mind and do miracles for them?  And, yes, I've heard the self-deluded theory that when people pray they are really just affirming to themselves what their goals are, and then work towards them on a subconscious level.  What a steaming pile of fecal matter that theory is.  First, they wasted time talking to themselves about it, then they never actually get around to doing anything constructive.  Any well balanced individual will actively pursue whatever it is that they want instead of hoping someday to stumble into it by accident.  So prayer is for weak minded dumbshits who are too fucking lazy to simply work for what they want.

Religion is also a tool for oppression.  I should say "mostly a tool for oppression".  It can so seriously warp people's minds that they will mutilate and even murder their own children.  They will even kill themselves, if you can believe what you see on the news.  History is full of people who wanted nothing more than to kill other people for believing things differently than they.  Actually, now that I think about it, that is what all of history is.  Religious institutions care nothing for relieving human suffering.  They are in the business of creating more suffering. It is a sad testimony to the power of the Great Religious Mindfuck that people who truly care about human suffering are employed in the industry of subsidizing, fostering and generating more human suffering.  What else do you call it when hungry people are given food, yet not the means to feed themselves?  Oddly, several religious texts warn against exactly this sort of thing while the men who control those relgions routinely ignore it.

I have noticed a recurring theme among the most popular brand name religions.  Apparently there is this omnipotent, all-knowing sky god who is deeply, intimately interested in my sex life.  How very queer.  I should very much like to know why is it, exactly, that "he" should be so concerned.  Even the Good and Fluffy Lord has a rather spotty record when it comes to sexual matters.  From everything I have seen on the subject, the sexual prohibitions arise from the attempts by the religions to control every natural human impulse.  Everything spontaneous, creative, joyous and life-affirming is ruthlessly controlled by their draconian fist.  This attitude seems entirely out of place as doctrine for a creature who proclaims unconditional love for all of humanity.

Which brings me back to charities.  They do no good.  They do evil.  To paraphrase Morticia Addams, "I always give to the widows and orphans fund.  We need more...."  I think that sums up the reality of the matter, if not the intended spirit.  Charities vary rarely do good.  They are not empowering, they steal power.  They provide services to those who would not otherwise benefit from said services.  I don't see their lack of resources as a problem.  I'm sure it is difficult to live as a bum.  It should be.  In fact, much like stupidity, it should be lethal.  Of course stupidity isn't nearly as painful as it should be, but this isn't a perfect world.

Therefore all religions have no worth and are dangerous to human existence.  They foster suffering, disempower people, and subvert natural human impulses to the point that humans become cabbages utterly dependent on the religion for their most basic needs.  All thinking beings should do whatever they can to kill all religion and religous thought.

A strange thing occurred to me.  In between pondering a diatribe about the dissociative disorders of domestic Greyface Cabbages and plotting to do a proper troll of some right wing nut job virtual meeting hall, I had an epiphany.

What if They(tm) are more discordian than we?

You know who They(tm) are.  The ones who decide that skirts will be above the knee this season and below knee next season, that we work nine-to-five, that work weeks are five days long, that the sun will rise at precisely 5:54AM tomorrow morning, and so on.  You know....  Them(tm).

Now, before you all point your fingers (or just give me the finger) and tell me I've gone around the bend, let me explain.  Firstly, yes, I have gone around the bend, but that's entirely beside the point.  Secondly, consider the facts.

Fact:  There is no real order to the world we live on.  By extension, there is no order to the universe at large.  This is the way She wants it, obviously.  Some may argue that this planet (Earth if you reading this from some other planet), our solar system, and all the other pretty lights in the cosmos are all part of some grand, greatly ordered system.  Those same people are also imbeciles, but we won't get into that in this rant.  I assure you, the entire universe as we know it is purely chaotic, especially the bits some insist are "organized" (whatever the hell that means).  If you don't belive me, consider tornados, hurricanes, and typhoons.  If cosmological bodies are organized then you have to accept that random atmospheric phenomenon are organized.  Obviously they aren't. So therefore, everything is chaotic.

Glad we cleared that bit up.  Now here's the important part so pay attention.  Stop drooling.  Close your mouth and sit up straight. I'm about to make something resembling a point.  Thank you.  No, not you...  You can go get fucked.  I meant the intelligent people reading this. Yes, them...

Since the Universe and everything in it is inherently chaotic, it only follows that everything we percieve as being ordered is, in all truth, disordered.  Pick any ostensibly organized system you please and look at it very closely.  Government is one of my favorite targets of this examination (and just to ridicule in general because it is so much fun).

All governments are composed of all sorts of people gathered together rather pell mell in various and sundry ways, all working more-or-less together in a direction vaguely resembling their professed aim.  When you look at their activities closely, suddenly you notice that there isn't any one individual anywhere in any organization that has any control over what their organization does or where it goes.  No control whatsoever.  Certainly they are all mindless cogs in a vast inhuman machine.  That goes for the lowliest bloke at the bottom to the greatest lord high mucky muck at the top.  Nobody is in control, precisely like a tornado or hurricane.

If you burrow down to the most insignificant minutiae of detail, the individual cog or worker, and examine their motivations for doing what they do (as if they had actually ever thought about it), you would find their reasons were entirely selfish.  Not surprising, really.  We all think primarily of ourselves.  In fact, statistically, more people survive if they think only of themselves.  But this principle also applies to the apes at the top of the fuck pyramid.  Prime Ministers, Presidents, Evil Dictators, CEO's, and all their ilk are also only thinking of themselves.  They care not a whit for the millions of peons below them, other than what it takes to win their adoration for one more election, or to entice them to spend their work-labor credit slips (aka money).

There have been the fools who come round and say, "But Random, They(tm) make all the rules!  They are Greyface and Evil!!"

To which I usually kick them in the hurty bits, although occasionally I may remark, "They(tm) only make rules through utterly random occurences to influence their accumulation of selfish gain."  Typically I will poke them in the eye at this point, just to make myself clear.  (you can take their wallet while they are distracted thusly).

So you see...  the strangeness of it all is that Eristic forces give rise to Aneristic forces, then inevitably devolve into an Eristic state.

I call this, the Aneristic Illusion.