hey there,
I've been bloggering on myspace for 6 months or so. Now ive got a system to post my complaints to several sites including this one. Check out this link if you want to see all of my entries and comments (shhh. ..most of the comments are fake).
http://www.myspace.com/remistevensandthegangofthieves
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Here's some of the highlights from this year so far:
Biofuels are Bullshit
I kind of hoped this was common knowledge, but i dont think it is yet so here goes. . .. It's pretty simple, mankind is already straining our farmland to grow enough food to feed everyone. People are still starving, food costs continue to rise. Mankind is also extremely dependent on fuel. Other than maybe air and water, i can't think of something humans consume more of than food and fuel. Filling cars with biofuels would basically group our two most demanded commodities onto one production source. Its preposterous.
So if we're already using all the land to grow food, where the hell are we going to grow all this corn needed for biofuel? There are billions of cars constantly sucking energy, we'd have to grow more biofuel crops than food crops. The news is already blaming ethanol for some of the recent food price increases, and we're only using about %5 in cars at best. As well, any farmer will tell you that corn is terrible for depleting the soil's growing ability. Easy right, we'll just triple our farmland and quadruple our dependency on fertilizers and chemicals- i suppose there's a whole lot more rainforest still to be had!
Its a diversion. Governments are powerless in the face of oil companies, so they pitch an incredibly lame alternative. The public believes the government is actually working on a brave new solution and the oil companies are happy because they're not stupid like the rest of us, they know biofuels pose no actual threat to their monopoly on energy.
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Rich People
When I'm not being several bands, i work long nightshifts in a busy rental place to make my many interest payments on my many debts. Night after night, the place is booked for lavish parties hosted by rich folks, im talking $250 000 lavish. Hundreds of people work to put these things on, planners, cleaners, security, cooks, waiters, technicians. ... Of course only the finest foods are served and fresh flowers and booze are plentiful.
How can the people who pay for these things live with themselves? I mean, we're suffering from global food and fuel shortages and these assholes have the audacity to blow unbelievable amounts of wasted resources and labour on some fucking party- an orgy of indulgence. And sometimes they'll call it a fundraiser, a Goddamn FUNDRAISER!
Imagine if all these skilled workers had been producing food for the poor instead, in fact, imagine all the people in the world who provide luxury to the rich were providing basic needs to the poor. Shortages solved, immediately, problem gone in the blink of an eye. --- but fuck no! Its more important that some rich prick can prove he's richer than last week's rich prick.
This is not a systemic problem, do not be mistaken. Don't blame it on the machine. Don't blame it on the people who service the rich either, what choice do I and others have? I'm so far in debt I have to do whatever will pay my bills and thats perfect. Those of us who can provide something the rich want, work like dogs, everyone else starves.
No, blame rich people.
And get angry. If they felt even the slightest moral obligation to their fellow man, they'd shoot themselves to feed thousands.
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don’t recycle
Myth1:
"Your wasteful, you're damaging the world, you need to re-structure your behavior to solve the problem"
Here's what the powers that be would like you to believe. In reality, our landfill space is overflowing because, and i've said this before, everything we buy comes in massive glossy packaging and is designed to break instantly. There are very few retailers left, we can only buy what's available. The people selling this shit need to re-think their behavior, not us.
Myth2:
"Recycling is good for the environment".
Common misconception, but recycling still uses a lot of energy. When we recycle, we 'reduce' the environmental impact of our waste, but that doesn't mean the end result is actually 'good' for the environment- its just less bad. Its like how they advertise hybrid cars as though they're trees or something; Its still a gas burning car!!!- i assure you it is not GOOD for the environment.
Myth3:
"Recycling will solve our landfill space problems".
The world is littered with dumps, if these dumps have no value, corporations will never touch them. If, on the other hand, our dumps are filled with a high quantity of metal, glass and decomposing organic matter spewing methane, corporations will eventually go back to them and try to reclaim some of these valuable resources. However, they would prefer we act as diligent recyclers, its much cheaper for them to process materials that have been cleaned and sorted; the public does all the work and the government pays for it- its a corporate dream come true. The public should be throwing everything into the dumps. As resources become more scarce, the value of these dumps will just keep going up, enticing companies to open them. Its like what happened with oil, they sucked all the easy sources of it out first, now they're forced to derive oil from more costly sources- sand/ocean. The more valuable materials are left in our dumps, the sooner cleaning them out will make sense for the corporate bottom line.
The corporate powers realized that through years of pushing consumerism, resources and landfill space were becoming scarce. They freaked out: 'oh shit, are we going to have to pay for this'. So they invented recycling, thereby downloading the cost of their actions onto the public. You wait, we'll end up paying for how they fucked up the air and the oceans as well- and they'll make us feel bad about it in the process.
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Universe not Finite
Well, there cant just be a wall out there at some great distance on the other side of which is nothing, cause hey, if its got an other side then that's something. So people like to theorize that if you traveled in one direction long enough you would eventually get back to where you started. Fine, but how the hell can you travel infinitely in one direction in a finite universe- one doesn't seem to fit into the other.
More importantly though is the fact that the universe is infinitely divisible- take 1/2 of any thing and you'll keep getting smaller and smaller things. To infinite divisions anything imaginable could exist in extreme smallness and extreme smallness within those extremes. Seen the end of MIB, orbs within orbs baby, to the max. Universe is not finite cause everything in it is infinite.
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Universe not Infinite
Easy, if the universe was infinite, anything conceivable that
could be concocted from the elements we know of would exist
somewhere. Since there is infinite space out there, there are
infinite possible chances for everything conceivable to exist.
It seems pretty conceivable that beings could exist from our
elements who were capable of long space travel and hell bent
on killing other species. If this is conceivable, and the
universe is infinite, then why hasn't such a super species
come and wiped us out already. Universe cannot be infinite.
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ok so you read to the end, what do ya want a medal. go check out the rest of it and my tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/remistevensandthegangofthieves
later dudes
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