Round pegs in square holes....

...that was the little geometric quandry that was occupying my mind for a about 6 minutes this afternoon.

Then I realised it was because I was eating four poached eggs on two peices of toast.

hmmm poached eggs.

Words, Anger and Hypocrisy

The power of words is something that I have come to understand and appreciate more fully over the past couple of years. This has been primarily the result of this blog and how it draws certain reactions from readers and myself based on the way it is written.

The pleasure of writing and playing with words has made the act of reading even more enjoyable. I've come to love how a change of word here or there can paint a picture more vividly or the bite of sarcasm can be deeper with a touch of alliteration and onomatopoeia. They are just Year 10 English techniques but so often they spring up in the right places to draw you into a world beyond the words on a page. Dickens' art of describing the random irrelevant detail is well known for this, but I prefer the politically minded writing of Orwell that can only be appreciated if you understand his ideology (as is shown by people who can't see the scathing attack on capitalism in Animal Farm)

What I enjoy most about writing is the passion that could be invoked. To turn a thought or a feeling into what appears to be a raging anger or an acidic spit in the face. Furious, desperate anger. Why so much anger? Why not passionate love and kindness? In all honesty - who wants to read about someone elses love? A Mills & Boon will do for that.

But there is also something very tangible and real about such an active emotion as anger (unlike the passive emotion of contentment). I would almost go as far as to say that for me, and indeed others, while witnessing your mind consumed in fury there is something almost art-like in the emotions invoked - like a booming furious Requiem inside your body. And so I endeavour to pour that Requiem onto pages of my diary and this blog.

Much of our passion as humans manifests itself as our ideology. And the direct result of any ideology is hypocrisy. No one who believes in anything can claim to be totally free of hypocrisy. We see it in ourselves and those around us, but we have yet another spare blind eye in our kit bag which we hurl at the mountain of our own and our loved ones hypocrises.

Is that a bad thing? Is there a subjectively determined level of acceptable hypocrisy? What would happen if everyone monitored everyone else for a slip up in their principles? Then again what would happen if everyone cared about the world instead of themselves.....

What's in the news?

The latest report from the UN is apparently yet another significant piece of evidence proving the effect of humans on climate change.

How much longer can people keep denying this? Is this going to be another version of the evolutionary theory debate? Except in this instance the future of the planet as we know it could be at stake.

What a generation to be alive - possibly one of the last to witness the world as it once was? The shift of the human psyche to one of rampant individualism couldn't be better expressed than the destruction of the planet, thereby ensuring we are the most remembered generation of all - possibly and ironically, with no-one left to remember us in a few generations. Perhaps all the prophecies of Armageddon style weather patterns will actually prove themselves to be vaguely accurate?

My prediction is that as the desperation for rapidly diminishing natural resources takes hold, and eventual economic decline in the US occurs - fear will grip the hearts of populations and governments alike. Fear of losing the quality of life we once took for granted, fear of change and fear of the unknown. Like a pack of animals, countries and individuals will climb over each other, trampling the weakest as they make final lunge for the remnants of a past life. Economic invasions such as the ones already witnessed in developing countries and protectionist trade policies will be the start of the economics warfare - then what? Foreign reserve dumping, trade embargoes and alliances between countries amongst all of this. Eventually leading the defence agencies to 'prepare for the worst' and make sure their missiles are pointed in the right direction - prompting 'the enemy' to do the same. And rest will be history - possibly discovered by another species that may evolve in a few million years.

Sounds dramatic? It's already happening and it won't take much to take the blocks out from under the wheels and allow the machine of humanity to career off into oblivion.

That is unless something is done now. If people stop making excuses for the lifestyles we have become accustomed to, if fingers are pointed, if action is taken, if policies are implemented.

What is the point in denying that this is an essential course of action? To be contrary? To not be called a 'greenie' by cretins? To tow the party line of conservatives and their white hooded friends?

If you are in denial that radical action is required, ask yourself why. Why ignore the facts? Why take the risk? Why gamble with the future of humanity for the sake of your own petty comforts?

I just hope we have a Crimes Against Humanity tribunal in 50 years that will bring some justice against the polluters and the excessively wealthy.