Life is barbaric. Live with it.
Well, no. The previous post regarding the stupid essay was stupid and doesn't make sense because it isn't even supposed to be there.
Lack of sleep muddled my brain and I forgot that I could actually copy and paste the entire 'essay' into an email and send it to my friend to copy, rather than to have to post on my blog and get her to copy paste.
Epic. Shan't bother deleting it either because it has been there for some time.
Had our sports carnival on Thursday. Wasn't that exciting, but it didn't take that long either, and it was an eye-opener anyway so I can live with that.
Saw Mr. Jeffrey Goh at the pizza hut near AJ, and it was quite weird to see him wave at me with his wife(um wife right?) holding his arm. It was also quite weird to wave back, considering the fact that we don't really see each other sexcept for our SPA lessons.
I hope the teachers would still remember me =\
Had dinner at the pizza hut with 1/3 of the class, and I realized that I completely do not have table manners. But like I say, eating is a barbaric process. I like being primitive.
Which reminds me of an article my sis showed me a few days back regarding Wolverine and why women think he's hot.
In the past, women only needed men who can keep the bears out of their caves, because that's something women can't do themselves(their prowess at combat aren't often on par with men after all). Now we can start wondering and trying to recall whether Tarzan was filmed/drawn with a lot of hair or not. Testosterone, being a steroid as it is, is shown all over men in the form of hair. Thus women felt a sense of security when they see hair on men, because it's symbolic of testosterone.
Slowly, societal views on hair and how it symbolizes barbarianism started to take ground, and it is no longer socially acceptable to walk around with a long beard unless you're holding onto a world record of some sort, simply because there were no more bears and caves that needs to be rid of bears so that it could become fit for humans to inhabit.
Then, the idea of men and women being equals took root, and some(most) males found it in their hearts to become more like women. That's why you see guys putting on make-up and making all those bullshit hairstyles, because they think people care, and because they are 'metrosexual'. And women, being visual creatures themselves, decided that looks should be an important factor in finding a mate, and so they dig these metrosexual people.
The gruff, le-strong-silent-type kind of guys are quickly dying out, because if you're silent you're unnoticed, and if you're unnoticed, you won't get to mate, and if you don't get to mate, you can't get your genetic material passed on, and if your genetic material isn't passed on, your species is endangered.
Then the metrosexual people gets to procreate and more metrosexual people are born. Which is a really bad thing, because the definition of metrosexual, as given by dictionary.com, is:
a heterosexual male who has a strong aesthetic sense and inordinate interest in appearance and style, similar to that of homosexual males
, which means that more money and time would be spent on stupid stuff like shopping. It is enough that women are contributing that much to global warming, males do not have to join in the fray.
Thus, as we can all see, men are getting more and more sissified, as the roles of men(like fighting bears) get diluted.
Why did I bother with talking about how men transformed to suit societal views and the needs of women? Because things are changing.
In times of economic recession, women are once again in need of 'security', thus they need to see hair.
Which is why Wolverine is getting popular with ladies, with him being as primal and bestial and muscular as a real man can be.
And that reminds me--why are people more receptive to muscles than hair? :c
The fact remains that the muscles are not meant for combat, but more for aesthetic appeal, and that's quite demeaning to the human body. It's like body modification, where you put stuff under your skin and fork your tongue so you look like a snake, except that it's more 'natural'.
Hair, like muscles, is something that is characteristic, but not exclusive, to males. Not many people understand that though but oh well.
They still appeal to a woman's need for security though. A lot.
I still don't think that a person should train muscles just to make women fall in love with them. Nut that fun. Muscles were of practical use in the past, and I think they should remain practical in the future besides increasing chances of bedding women.
So I was wondering, why are humans so weird? They feel for one thing at one time, then change it because it seems barbaric, and revert to their original forms when they can't hold on anymore. Or at least for females only, because the aforementioned sexample only refers to a woman's fickle nature.
Like eating, living is barbaric. Or maybe that's because you need to eat to live, but either case life is barbaric. To go up you must push someone down. It's like playing chess, except that the chess pieces are your dicks, which doesn't make sense because one man is entitled to only one dick.
Either case, it's just repackaging the whole shit and claiming that it's more 'barbaric' one way than the other. How we avoid teachers is like how we avoid fighting strong bears. How 'civilized' is that? Just because we're properly clothed doesn't mean our natural instincts are. Appearing, and being, are completely different.
How we argue with teachers to prove our point is similar to how we fight the bears.
And no one can argue this point with me, if not he/she would prove that he/she wants to be morally/intellectually superior, and in that case would prove that my hypothesis, that arguing is a barbaric process, is correct. Humans vs. humans, not healthy. No wait that'd mean teachers aren't humans.
Eh wait. No actually that just means that I live an unhealthy life because I'm always arguing with teachers.
So anyway, we all lead a barbaric life. Except that we don't know it, because we don't think it's barbaric at this point of civilization. Perhaps in the distant future, humans have evolved to the point that there is no need for communication. Our language becomes a 'barbaric' thing for those people to look back(and down) upon.
Just because I still think I live in prehistoric times does not make you more superior than me >(
Yes I am actually very insecure about myself therefore I hug my bag everyday and am blogging this as a form of re-assurance to myself that everything is ok and that it is perfectly fine to be barbaric :c
Now let's talk about how barbaric it is to witness stuff and record it down and show it to the world. This struck me during mass civics on Thursday, and I think it struck me when I watched a video on cruelty to animals, but the animal one was long ago.
During civics, we watched a video on life transformers, highlighting impoverished families.
I don't see why they should make an entire episode on the living conditions of the family, and broadcast it. They are highlighting the pain of the family, and possibly humiliating them further. Never wash your dirty linens in public, yo.
And I always get this feeling that what's on reel isn't real. I mean, who goes around baring his/her heart and life story out on national/international TV? Though I do agree that the story was tragic, and that I can't help but feel sympathetic, I can't find it in me to think that it's acceptable for stuff like that to be screened.
Exposing one's life on TV is quite demeaning to it. Makes people think that it's just another drama serial, one that you watch, sympathize with, and forget about in just a couple of hours, and forgetting that the tragedy we watch for an hour is a nightmare they have to live with for life.
Reminds me of Kevin Carter. Heh I finally found his name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
He witnessed 'necklacing', which is a painful way to die. I don't think any woman would want to be killed with broken glass shoved into her vagina while being burnt by a tyre-ful of gas around her chest and arms, and made this comment:
''After having seen so many necklacings on the news, it occurs to me that either many others were being performed (off camera as it were) and this was just the tip of the iceberg, or that the presence of the camera completed the last requirement, and acted as a catalyst in this terrible reaction. The strong message that was being sent, was only meaningful if it were carried by the media. It was not more about the warning (others) than about causing one person pain. The question that haunts me is 'would those people have been necklaced, if there was no media coverage?''
There is so much more you can do other than sitting down and sucking your thumb, or snapping away. Photographs cannot bring back the dead.
Media is too abused.
On a random side note, there are times when you wish for a language between you and your designated recipient, that there is a frequency only both of you can tune into, that there is a code only the two of you can decipher. Everyone wishes for something exclusive to themselves and the person they want to be exclusive to, but reality always disappoints.
Which makes me wonder why did I bother typing that in the first place, =\
Sometimes I wish I have long-sleeved shirts to block out the goosebumps that have nothing to do with the weather.
Sometimes I wish I had better homeostasis.
But I know that it'd be OK anyway.
-- 5/01/2009 11:41:00 PM
