Okay well today I’m cutting away from the normal all of us who
view my blog regularly have grown accustom to. What I plan to type
here will possibly be some of the most controversial material I will ever post
up. I know many of you will be offended by what I will put here and honestly
you are welcome to leave all the hate mail you'd like but your also welcome to
leave right now before I get into what it is I have to say. You have been
warned.
Okay so
an incident last night prompted me to type this up today
and it was one that touched me deeply but not in a good way. Me and a friend of
mine were chatting online late at night and it must have started around two thirty in the morning but it didn't end till five am. For over two hours my friend cut into me attacking
me beliefs. In the paragraphs to come her name will be changed
to protect her identity that’s the favor I will grant in this situation.
Alright let’s get
started. I got on after dealing with some business with Ann
about moving soon. We were picking a city and trying to get an idea
of where to move to. I'm gonna be staying with her and her husband for the year
to come after we get the new place so I can save up money to get a place of my
own but im jumping off topic now so I’ll get back to it. So I get on
and Kate was online because we had planned to meet up for a while. Things
started off cool but changed as they always do. It started with her asking
about where I stand in politics. I told her the truth I stand on the, I'm a
person side of things as an independent. She was cool with that and we
proceeded to get into a discussion about the system and about
China.
I don't know if
she was drunk, depressed or just paranoid but it was no excuse for what
would soon go from a pleasant conversation to her attacking me. Well start
with the China bit as it is the shorter of these two. You never know what
someone is really like until you have a talk like this which is why I
tend to avoid them to the best of my ability. Well I didn't know she would flip
out on me so I didn't bother trying to avoid it this time (I wish I had). Once
again I jump off topic but really people are so easy to get along with till
this shit gets brought up. They are so friendly and that's
a benefit of the net, it frees us to say things we would never say to
other people and it makes the masks we all wear more convincing. Anyway so she
started up with a paranoid sounding statement about how she
was surprised China didn't put sleepers in the stuff they send to us
and she went from that into a rant about them owning most of America as
it is and what sounder a lot like her saying they would take over. I proceeded
to tell her that wouldn't happen. Come on really Kate?! China has no reason to
screw themselves over by taking over, and they would if they did take
over. No offence China but it’s true. When a nation gets too big it often
throws that nation into chaos and I had to spend
ten minuets pointing this out to her. At first things may be fine but
the bigger the territory taken the harder it is to control. I had to point out
times that it has happened trout history like Britain in the new world,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great. I know that
reason isn't the only factor in each by the way.
I went on to say
it wouldn't benefit China to take over and have to deal with not
only more territory to worry about but to gain the US's enemies and
problems (financial and otherwise). No why it is true they have a lot of
control I can't see a reason for then wanting all those problems when they can
just as easily control things without taking over and that leaves
them forever blameless for the bull shit we cause. It’s easier to
leave the illusion of freedom and control things behind the scenes. That would
lead her to promptly tell me I’m wrong and id lead us into out fight about the
system by saying that it works kinda. While I know it may not last forever I do
know it holds things together for now while we as people grow and learn to make
things better. She disagreed that we get better and said we are
all wasting our time. I had to point out that nothing we do is a
waist. We are paving the way for the next generation to be better
than us. I know things don't get better even in one lifetime in most cases and
I accept that. Her response was to basically ask me why
bother because we put people in power that are fucking idiots. That led
further into this fight about us as a species never getting better and the
system. She tried to convince me that there's no point to
our existence and that there was no meaning
in believing that human kind does get better. In the end I told her
to fuck off. I will not give up on us all. I know we get better little by
little. I except that the things suck ass and that the system doesn't work
well. However it’s the best we have for now.
Everyone who paid
attention in government class in this country knows we the people
don't really have much say in the leader. People like Kate give up on humanity
because they say it’s stupid to see the good and they focus in on all the bad.
People like me have faith that is unchanging. I refuse to give up that
faith and by the end of our fight it sounded like if we each had a button that
would end existence she would push it and I wouldn't. Yes the fight
bothers me greatly and while she did have no right to attack me like that it isn't
a crime online. That's it for me. See you all tomorrow for Frank
Friday. Have a happy night till then.
