Fight the Power

I've recently received a thoroughly unsatisfactory grade at college, one that doesn't represent the situation in which the work was submitted, lack of teacher, etc. the norm. The difference is that here the establishment has made no attempt to try and help us out by adjusting our marks even though they could. Now, i'm eloquent enough to have written a powerfully worded and strong letter to the director of studies detailing all of the concerns, essentially ripping him a new one and take it all the way to the top of the college.

Now, if I carry on with this it's possible they could somehow get me for plagiarism and kick me out because I'd be rubbing them the completely wrong way which isn't something I usually aim to do. Now the question remains, how far do you go to defend the principle when It's actually you on the line.

I mean it's all well and good when you're supporting a distance and unrelated cause but when you're actually in the center of everything and it's you who's enacting the change, do you back off and take it or do you put it all on the line when everything going right for the first time in your life?

Jeez, this is the kind of time I could do with outside opinions...maybe I'm just being paranoid.

Zeitgeist

I have a housemate who is convinced the banks conspire with a world agenda in order to control the world's money and therefore control the world. Now i'm fairly tired so I'll try and keep this short and sweet but I'm just going to launch into a small discussion on the extent to which I agree with him.

Now I started with a somewhat oversimplification although it stands true and I don't want anyone thinking I'm a "nutjob" conspiracy theorist - having said that I don't actually think conspiracy theorists are "nutjobs", all they do is take a lack of evidence supporting the govenment's view or whoever else's and turn it around into the evidence for their point of view. I digress - now this is starting to become a bit of a mess. I told you I was tired.
Money is power, this has always been true. On this assumption the same banks or banking families have controlled the world's money for a very long time, hundreds of years, stretching all the way to the medici banking family in Venice and beyond. They controlled whole cities and sections of countries and of course as money makes money their influence, power and stockpiles have only increased since. Think about it, people in power breed with people in power and create powerful marriages spawning powerful children. It's the way the world works. You can only really break into this elite group through marriage, game-changing inventions or pure merit placing you heads and shoulders above the rest of the world. Today, this is no different, the federal reserve act was drafted on a private island by a group of bankers; it is in their interest to hold on to power and hell, they're the ones who're used to it and who am I to tell them they shouldn't still be clinging to it because if we've proved one thing as the general public, it's that WE CANNOT BE TRUSTED. The difference between me and my housemate is that I've been following politics for a very long time, he hasn't. He seems to have just awoken to the news having lived on a small island most of his life and has made the mistake of accepting all information he is given with the same value. So a nutter preaching about how Obama is the worst president the world has ever seen is given the same gravity as an article in the economist. Hearing about the debt ceiling being raised this year will enrage him until I let him know that it's been raised at least 3 or 4 times a year for the last at least 50 years or so. "Oh, uh, well that cant be true because youtube said otherwise"... T_T

In fact, even worse, he insists that you cannot trust any data or evidence presented in any media because it is all fabricated. However it seems the random youtube videos from which he gets his half-assed news seems to be fact because it's from the people. There's really only one world for people like this. Idiots. To assume that all data given to you by any source, no matter how reputable, to ignore evidence no matter how impartial the source is nothing short of idiocy. It is the viewpoint for people who cannot understand the difference between fact and fiction which is highlighted greatly in the debates I seem to be dragged into with him from time to time.

He, of course, has no opinion of his own, no matter how much he may parrot the line of others it is painfully obvious to all around him that he cannot think for himself and so any ideas he presents are the ideas of others. Now recently he has become the patron saint of soon to be unknown, soon to be 4th place republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul. He spends all day every day watching his speeches on youtube and walks around telling everyone he's going to be assassinated if he gets into power. He takes his word as law. He takes his rhetoric against the other politicians as the truth and repeats them without any other viewpoint than his own.

I could go on forever and I'll only get more and more angry and less and less able to sleep in a bit so really I should tail this off. If you or anyone you know is like this you have to accept that they are ignorant to the extreme, incapable of forming their own opinions and nothing short of an outlet for the media they tout as untrustworthy. I'm not the media's friend but I can recognize the difference between fact and fiction and now, after half a year I can recognize that there is zero point in arguing with him because when you don't recognize facts as facts there is no basis from which to continue. I personally blame the fact he was raised in a boarding school so had no adults to tell him he was spouting shit with only gullible kids to idolize his torrent of shit he ends every argument with well, it's my opinion so...

Christ, I'm getting pissed. The fact that it's your opinion doesn't mean it's a fact from which you base all future arguments. If it was a fact that all facts are fabricated that's fine, but the fact that it's your opinion makes anything you say invalid. That and the denial of global warming, another attempt to pass off the mainstream republican party line as his own view. Just like the views of Ron Paul himself, generally over simplistic, narrow minded and short sighted just like his supporters. Apart from his libertarian views on drugs - even those go too far.

He's a great friend, and more or less a generally good guy. However there are just some people you should leave to their opinions and their ways because as soon as you start trying to engage them you'll start going in circles leading to headaches, depression and suicide. He neither aims to be, nor will ever be in a position where his opinion on such matters are taken seriously so fuck it. At least I know I'm right.


Idiots; they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience...

Back after a break

Been a while...

No deep meaningful input for tonight, just an update. Just been ticking over since exams, went to a warehouse rave, my first time, finished at about 6am which was awesome spent the last 2 hours coming down in the seating "death" area but other than that it was pretty decent. Otherwise winding up for the next set in a month or so which is absolutely ridiculous. They just come around disgustingly quickly and before you know it another year has been completed and you're another year closer to the world of work and real responsibility. I've stopped kidding myself that I'm going to write an entry whilst actually at college as i'm just too high too much of the time, don't get me wrong I fucking love it and there's not many places I'd rather be but whilst I'm there I feel almost compelled and that means I'm in no position to write; too relaxed with too little motivation. Speaking of real work I've got a job as an engineer which is incredible...I'll be starting sometime this  year - earning real money which should be nice and taking a year out of college to experience adults who aren't in the bubble that I call college life.

In fact, where I live it seems as if people don't understand how small a pond they're swimming in - I'm not saying I know how big a pond the world is because nobody really can but living in a capital city most of your life you get a good idea. They strut about like everyone wants to know them and talk like what they have to say is the law however the reality is that they have their friends who're also in the bubble they have their parents who make no attempt to burst the bubble and they have girls at clubs who're even more sheltered and "bubble'd" than the guys who're trying to chat them up. None of them have any substance, all of them think they're god's gift to the world and very few of them will make it anywhere and that's not a problem for them because mediocrity in life is what they're gunning for. It's in 10 to 15 years when those of us who're awake to the ways of the world, those of us who know what's going on, those of us who know what we want and know how to get it, those of us who're presented with these mindless morons on a daily basis and lie, manipulate and coerce your way around them in order to achieve something who will be employing these idiots in the future and will be managing their skills, or lack thereof, to complete projects to deadlines. I'm also not saying that everyone is like that because, as I consider myself a good judge of character, I've found a good group of guys who aren't as clueless as everyone else and on the most part are on the same page; nothing to do with intelligence or booksmarts. I was going to provide an example but I fear i'm going on too long - I lie, the example I was thinking of doesn't tie in well enough to be worth mentioning and I wanted to finish this entry but I guess that in itself is an example of what I'm talking about.


At home now though so expect a few posts in the next few weeks...