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Stuff: Magic, Movies, Dreams, Etc
Oct. 20th, 2011 02:56 pmOver at my Formspring, there's more talk about Magic/k: http://www.formspring.me/Wolven
Last Night, went to go watch Chinatown, down at Emory. Having not seen it in about a decade, I'd forgotten exactly how brutal that movie was. Jesus. This was after previous days spent watching Grosse Pointe Blank and the show "Lost Girl." Interesting stuff.
Had dreams about being a member of the Invisibles, all living in a house together, me and giving a very calm, cogent lecture about the structure and rise of governmental corruption to a group of undergraduates sitting in front of a Government building, waiting to be let in on a tour, or something. Some undergraduate female asked me to explain how corruption takes hold in any government systemm, and I explained that there would always be corruption in any vast system, because people would always see the opportunity to leverage their position to greater advantage, and to have "More Than." Be that more than they had, or more than someone else had, people given power would always want "More Than." The only way to guard against this, I said, was to have constant safeguards in place, so that the people running the system enjoyed no "advantages" over anyone else within it, and were exactly as subject to the rules of the system as anyone else, if not moreso.
"Governments will always become corrupt. It's a necessary component of becoming that vast, that mechanised, and having that many competing interests at work within said vast system." It's like, if anyone gets old enough, most likely they'll get cancer.
Today, I helped my friend Dennis get a U-haul and tomorrow he starts the drive up to New York, where he'll be living, until next year, sometime. Now I'm waiting for State Farm to show up to take pictures of the damage (or lack thereof) on the front of my car. they gave me a two-hour window of between 1 and 3pm, but I haven't heard from them yet.
I think I'm going to go take a practice GRE, and see what I can do for studying, there.
Last Night, went to go watch Chinatown, down at Emory. Having not seen it in about a decade, I'd forgotten exactly how brutal that movie was. Jesus. This was after previous days spent watching Grosse Pointe Blank and the show "Lost Girl." Interesting stuff.
Had dreams about being a member of the Invisibles, all living in a house together, me and giving a very calm, cogent lecture about the structure and rise of governmental corruption to a group of undergraduates sitting in front of a Government building, waiting to be let in on a tour, or something. Some undergraduate female asked me to explain how corruption takes hold in any government systemm, and I explained that there would always be corruption in any vast system, because people would always see the opportunity to leverage their position to greater advantage, and to have "More Than." Be that more than they had, or more than someone else had, people given power would always want "More Than." The only way to guard against this, I said, was to have constant safeguards in place, so that the people running the system enjoyed no "advantages" over anyone else within it, and were exactly as subject to the rules of the system as anyone else, if not moreso.
"Governments will always become corrupt. It's a necessary component of becoming that vast, that mechanised, and having that many competing interests at work within said vast system." It's like, if anyone gets old enough, most likely they'll get cancer.
Today, I helped my friend Dennis get a U-haul and tomorrow he starts the drive up to New York, where he'll be living, until next year, sometime. Now I'm waiting for State Farm to show up to take pictures of the damage (or lack thereof) on the front of my car. they gave me a two-hour window of between 1 and 3pm, but I haven't heard from them yet.
I think I'm going to go take a practice GRE, and see what I can do for studying, there.
