a perfect world

 

The most interesting questions are always the ones parallel to the ones we are asking ourselves. I felt on one about a perfect world.

Most of us might see a perfect world as a result instead of a process - how a world in process could be perfect? I couldn’t stand an unimprovable world.

But the most important question about a perfect world is not how it would be but how we are. A perfect world would be built from who we are.

Would a perfect world be suitable with us?

Mostly: what are we made of? Greed? Fear? Hunger?

Before willing to improve the world, shouldn’t we be willing to improve ourselves?

Lately, old teenage ideas about a better world came back in my mind. I thought: what’s missing? Why are we thinking about a better world? Do we miss ingredients? Recipes? Cooks?

It’s easy to imagine a better world. Damn easy. But according to who we are, could we get better?

writing a macbeth

Once in a while, there’s a little voice in my head saying “You should write a novel that would be a “remake” of Shakespeare’s Macbeth !”.

That would certainly be cool. But I have so many short story and novel ideas and not that much time… I can afford writing all the poetry I want, and some philosophical observations, but the remaining time and energy isn’t that big. I don’t know how much I like the idea of waiting 35+ years to write novels as I’ll be retired.

intoxication

 

This week, I began to read The Darwin Awards book. I had to stop. Depressing, intoxicating, misanthropic, cynical.

meanness archetypes

There is about meanness four types of people:

• The mean being mean: quite common, sadly, and we try to avoid them.
• The mean being gentle: in other words, a hypocrite. Can be easily confused with the next one.
• The gentle being gentle: there could be more of them.
• The gentle being mean: very rare. And hated by most, and mostly by the mean ones being mean. Maybe because they know more than others that these rare archetypes are mean to push us to the best of us. True pedagogues are rare. And rarely understood. Sadly.

I’m wondering however which of the three others is the most common… I know which would be preferable but…

the math of tragedy

What kind of link can we make between the 33 casualties at Virginia Tech and the 60 000+ casualties in Irak since 2003 ?

virginia and firearms

33 persons were killed Monday in Virginia.

Over 16,000 persons are killed yearly in the US. About 44 tragedies daily. About 2/3 involve a firearm. Knives come second with about 1/10.

With a better firearm control in the US, about 30 tragedies could be avoided daily.

What’s a tragedy ? What happened or what we could have done ?

cats don’t go to heaven…

Every year in North America, millions of strays (lost) and feral (born outside a home) cats are euthanized in shelters. In Quebec alone, over cats are euthanized each year; these are the worst numbers per capita of any province in Canada or any state in the U.S.

Tons of euthanized animals are sent to rendering plants (there are some large ones in Quebec) where they end up in pet foods along with poor-quality meats from slaughterhouses.

In addition, many cats and dogs end up suffering horribly in laboratory experiments. If you aren’t careful, your own pet could end up in the terrible circumstances just outlined.

Adopt a cat. In Montreal, or elsewhere…

less languages

 

Would today’s world be better with less languages ?

English, Spanish, Arab, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi and maybe Japanese would preserve the specificity of every major civilization.

Would anything improve with seven languages instead of more than 4000 ?

a river am i

 

My head is a mess. Language, art, life… I feel like an intersection. Something but nothing, somewhere but nowhere. In-between crisis.

I look at my art, it looks like a river. Poems and thoughts coming down my head, effortlessly. It seems I can’t get interested in working for real on a project, except organize and clean up what came out so easily.

I could write about the one I love and will never know about it, write against materialism, pride, decadence, fear, hate, write some wise stories with philosophical perspective… But I feel that’s all pointless.

Maybe I’m not a writer, only a river.

teens charged of sexual assault

Four young men face charges after an unconscious 16-year-old Mississauga girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in a gang-style attack recorded on cellphone cameras, police say.

What ? Playstation isn’t fun enough anymore ?

just like nuremberg

 

We kill their former leader to show them how civilized we are how things are going to improve as we are bringing this wonderful civilization in this barbarian land.

who would hunt ?

 

Sometimes, I wonder how many of us, if left into the wild, would try to kill an animal instead of just picking up vegetables.

As I don’t think I would try to slaughter anything, why do I buy meat ? Because someone else killed and cleaned it for me ?

I know some of us wouldn’t bother because hunting is still a popular activity… But I really don’t know how many would give up meat out of the civilization…