Rebooting this blog because I might actually have decent things to write about now, unlike last time where I wrote about my 'problems' and my shitty internet connection. What's really fucking weird is how different I was back then - I didn't even like Enter Shikari for Christ's sake. I'm not gonna delete the old posts because I completely forgot I even had this blog and I want to keep them for passers by, so they can laugh at how hilarious my existence was. I had no idea about the world around me back then, and, for better or worse, I'm finally getting to grips with what the world has in store for me over these coming years.
I feel as if I actually have a goal in life, some values. I haven't ever actually felt like I wanted to do something with my life until now, I always just though 'Oh yeah, fuck it, life'll catch up with me soon, I don't have to do anything.' But I do have to do something, and it's only take seventeen years to realise anyone can make a difference in this world, and that's exactly what I plan to do. Nobody will ever read this but Tumblr is too social to actually write what I want to write. Occasionally people might stumble across this blog trying to find the old one that I will not talk about, because I was an ignorant fourteen year old who didn't realise how much of a bellend I was being.
What I've realised over the past couple of days (I've been ill, you see, and I think a lot when I'm ill) is that we as a society are being force-fed hatred towards a populace, a 'race' of people we know shit all about. The war in Afghanistan is and always will be a waste of money, resources, and lives. I have a friend who is very pro-war, and although I won't name any names, anyone I know reading this will know who I'm talking about. Now I'm not going to attack his beliefs, but I will say that I disagree almost entirely with his ideas of war. People who say 'We're in Afghanistan till the job gets done' have no clue. What the fuck is 'the job'? Eradicating a group of people who serve as no immediate threat to our society? Completely destabilising the economies of various middle-eastern countries for the sake of profit and appeasing our 'friends'? It's all bullshit. Too many people have died for a cause that is so vague and corrupted already, and that number is only going to rise. The media and the government, however, have a way of moulding the news of these deaths into fuel for more hatred. I'm not saying the Taliban and of Al-Qaeda haven't done anything wrong, of course the destruction of the Twin Towers etc. have been awful acts of terrorism, but the way the media blinds us with these stories of how the Muslims are always out to get us sickens me. We're being spoon-fed mouthfuls of anger and contempt for a people who are most likely being fed the same lies about us. Only when the conflict stops, and peace resumes, can we actually continue to evolve as a species. We're on a very slippery slope at the moment, and if we're not careful we'll end up completely destroying our own race, our own species.
If you do know me and are reading this, talk to me on this and not through facebook or whatever. I'd like to keep these thoughts and ramblings to this blog only, and won't respond to any other shit.
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