Happy Wednesday, everyone! It's a nice day outside, so I spent most of it outside in it. My lady friend is busy waiting to deliver puppies, and going slowly bored out of her mind waiting for that event. Good luck to dog and deliverer! She's stuck out in the wilds of CT, but I think it's really nice of her to help out.
It's been pretty quiet apart from that- I've been getting outside as much as possible, and am fairly certain I've lost about 5 pounds, which the MEPS doctor recommended. Not that I need it, but to put me in line with height and weight regulations. So I guess bulking up in the gym is not a good idea? At any rate, today I finally got a military email address. There's a way to communicate/chat/IM the other members of my company before training begins, but I have yet to discover how to do it. Then again, my level of chat expertise reached its high point when I met my lady friend- we chatted on-line for a bit before setting up a first meeting- going over such vital topics as cartoons, dogs and pajama pants. From such humble beginnings, however, great things come.
I came across the director's cut of Brazil, a really good if more than a little controversial movie. Picture the Bush administration in a nightmare version of Manhattan and you've got pretty much the idea. The strange thing was, that this movie, along with 1984, were mirrored so well in the Bush administration. All three have a seemingly (deliberately?) unwinnable war (actually, the country is not at war- the declaration of war comes from a vote by Congress, not the President) against a shadow enemy, kind of a boogeyman who could be anywhere at any time, and all use this shadow enemy to justify running roughshod over civil rights and throwing common sense to the wind. (Hey, just because I take orders from the government doesn't mean I have to agree with them) But the one thing that I can't figure out in any of these, and perhaps never will, is this- what is the rationale? It can't be profit, as profit without sustainability results in the system eating itself alive. Is it religion, or some kind of superiority, that we have some obligation to subdue the heathen peoples of the world with our vastly superior culture? Well, that would make some degree of sense, although not much. Or is it simply paranoia and fear? That a position of power, a position of having it all, can disappear in the blink of an eye? Not that that will happen to the vast majority of people, who continue, it seems, to live their lives despite the recession. I can say with certainty, I have no freakin' idea. Oh well, I would like to think I've found my spot in this world, and am glad of it. At this point my plan is simply do the best job I can, give all that I can to my family and loved ones, and hope in the end it would have been enough.
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