day twelve

I've decided not to post every day, or to try and post every day purely because it's impracticable and sometimes I have lots to say about thing and sometimes I have nothing to say...like yesterday.

Found out today that Uganda is debating an anti-homo bill tomorrow to justly the execution/life time imprisonment for being caught doing 'gay things' or being 'repeat offenders' and even 'actively displaying gay things in public' I think this law is the gayest law since gay began and gay my friends...has stood the test of time.

Haven't really written in my book this week except sometime on whether the media is constrained to 'the system' and my reply being of course, the neo-liberal undemocratic capatalist system we live under is obviously going to have an impact on the information writers write about. If you are breast fed the idea that a first past the post system works then you are less likely to doubt it, and even less likely to protest against it, unlike if you have lived in a more pluralist system. We talked about whether it was worth voting this year if you can already predict the outcome. Like I said in class and learned from a friend, there is no left wing representation with substantial power in Parliment, but the BNP are rising in numbers, so a vote against them is worth it. Unless you believe in the BNP, then good for you - but a recession and a disenchantment between the two main parties doesn't mean you should reverse immigration and let an extreme party based on fascist ideas and founded on racial hatred (which it is, and doesn't deny it) in to power. They might have promised to fix your light-bulb, but they wont fix our country. The more I am taught on politics the more socialist I become, but I still don't think left-wing politics answers my questions. I don't even know my questions. Probably more philosophical than political, so why I study politics is illusive but I do enjoy learning about it.

Currently: reapplying for lost drivers license, applying for more money off the Government for auditory resources and beer.

day eleven

I only really have one thing to say Today;
'People that play and decorate their food are teasing their natural instinct to eat it'

day eight

My halls Internet is shite at the moment, so I'm writing this blog early

Haven't been able to write for a few days 'cause our halls Internet is THAT BAD but I've been a little busy anyway and I was so fucked last night I forgot my pin so I have no money - and no food either, can't walk into a bank because I lost me bloody drivers license. Spell checked 2 times.

Watched Extras Christmas Special with a mate the best bit about it was this.
It's so true on so many levels.

So there are many views on what reality is. Some people think that reality is representative, as in what you see is a representation (or an idea) of what is there, a 'veal of perception' coined by Descartes and other leading philosophers, the problem with that is that your brain must consciously be perceiving and idea(ring) things all the time, what if I'm asleep or high? Lot of work I think, are people with problematic brains blind? Or have a different perception of something that is an idea of something, which is distorted but is essentially their personal perception thus distortion is just a different perception of the same thing to mine and neither are wrong or right. Maybe what we see is what we are seeing right there and then, no veal just reality. No-one subconsciously has thought otherwise 'naive realism' or 'conscious realism' as they are also known as. However a criticism is that rainbows are deceptive, do rainbows deceive children or create a feeling of happiness? Maybe that's the problem, that from a young age we are deceived into believing things that aren't really there but because they keep us happy or whatever we continue to be deceived. Maybe I'm hinting a bit too much HAHA

day four

Chips, veg, sausage and chicken nuggets smothered in bisto to hide the flavor of Asda price;
This post is pretty early but I can just edit later if needs must.

Just a quick note on the people who may read this and not know me personally:
I've done more pills, acid, mdma, and ket than you're whole family and the worst state I've ever been in was when I cut my thumb and thought I was swimming in a bathtub with no water, then went downstairs of this session and lay on the sofa in front of two 2 club sized speakers and monged out. The best trip I've ever had was with one of my best mates in Jesmond when she thought she was tattoo'd to the floor and the trees were closing in on her while I thought the sky was a spaceship and her dog was god. I've done DJ Hype sober and had a better time than most. The best club I've ever been to is Tall Trees. I'm not posting to represent gays, gingers, 'neuro-diverse', muscly men, teenagers - or any minority just myself and hopefully this little paragraph helps.

Anyway, so today music, films and art is on my hit-list, starting with art. I'm not really into art. But I prefer to look at things like this, this, and this. Probably more because of the way they have interpreted things rather than what they actually are. I get annoyed at some art because it just doesn't express anything or I don't understand like a photo of something usual like a path or just a clear blue sky. I don't see that as art because what it is is what it is but not in that 2D picture.

Films is a very big and broad area haha but Lion King, Leon, 300, Gladiator, Star Wars, X-Men, I Am Legend, Sixth Sense, This Is England, and Pokemon the First movie are some of the movies in my collection that I have watched more than once (even though This is England ain't mine) as a child I wasn't born with Teletubies or whatever and the only movie I can remember from it was the Dark Crystal. I don't think movies effect people in the long run consciously but in the long run we probably base some moral decisions in what 'the right thing is' on what you watched in a film - but not just films have this effect.

Music is important for me, it invokes emotions you can't really feel from anywhere else. I know that sounds sad, that I rely on music to give me some emotions but in a mind that confides you to a world of social order, and routines you need something to break you out of it? So, here are 4 songs I want you to listen to at full volume, I was gonna leave a little summary but that would be me being such an arse - just listen to them, follow them, and feel them. I'm such a fucking freak lol. 1. 2. 3. 4.
I'm very much into my tribal beats so you might even have your own preferences.

In class today I put my views across for the first time; how I feel as though we will move beyond democracy, capitalism, communism, neo-liberalism ideologies into something post-whatever - definitely not in our lifetime. I also learned that the Prime Minister really has no power, and it's not written down anywhere in document that they should be Prime Minister, or that they should be head of a Cabinet or that MPs should even exist, even in the Magna Carta written too long ago. I also gave the negative side of 'globalization' that it forces lesser developed countries to produce more exports and less domestic goods in big busy populated cities which reduces wages and maximizes profits. But we are bound by capitalism, democracy, party ideologies etc - I'm not a communist by the way, slightly socialist but not to a great deal where I'll protest. I don't know where I fit.

Day three

I watched this today. I have very mixed views.

Do ya we are moving into a post-national-society? There will always be a mass in England that votes every so often, that watches certain things more on TV than other things, and that come together to fight common enemies (whatever that means). But I think society is becoming more and more closed to things like 'Gaming Society' or 'LGBT' something that unites people together intentionally not 'just is'. Other than that we act accordingly to what we want or need as individuals. I don't breathe because as a society we need to be over-populated - I breathe because I value my life. You don't buy Vivienne Westwood because society tells/influences you to, you buy it to either feel good about yourself, enjoy the label or item or to look for attention from those you know and those you don't e.g. walking in the street and someone notices it, maybe even a friend has recommended or you possibly want to be your friend I dunno. You can't fight for a 'better society' just a better way of living but even that is subjective, what is a better way of living and when does it stop getting any better?
But saying that we are still bound by national voting and global economics etc things that as a nation brings us together (arguably) but undoubtedly we are separating ourselves and being ourselves and doing what we want with whoever we want more than ever there's so much diversity in the air that what is seen as socially acceptable is only subject to the law and the ever dissolving theme of 'area and situation' - Susan Boyle for example a diagnosed nutcase winning over America and the Western countries. I don't know if that makes sense, let me know how I can word that better if you want and I'll add (not replace) it in. Extreme Post-Structuralists say you can't assume anything because we don't live eachother's lives and they way we perceive and decode are totally different (in most cases). I can imagine a few people think this is a load of tosh...I probably think yours is a load of shit too :)

I need a new iPod and to stop indulging in Post Secret in my spare time so much.

day two

So my lecturer today said that there was no way a Marxist/Lennen type revolution could ever happing in Britain in the foreseeable future, I'm not a strong socialist more of a pluralist/'utilitarianist' but it was interesting to hear from a man who has studied Marxism and wrote a book on it say that. Today was pretty good day banter was sweet, food was savory but the weather was shit. I learned nothing new pragmatically but a refresh of memory is always good. I need to get off my phone more.

day one

So I've decided to make a blog, posting crap about my life every time I remember to do so. My name is Kieron Sumner - I'm originally from a metropolitan city called Newcastle in N.E. England and moved to Manchester to study politics at MMU, a quite archaic but developing city where Marx wrote part of his theories, where the TUC was founded, and where the first anti-slavery protests went on in Britain.

It's very cultured yet diverse in its people. Since moving here I've learnt i can do things on my own so much more than I thought I could but I do enjoy the company of the mates I've made here. I miss home sometimes but that doesn't last very long, I did move away after all, i miss my mates, and after uni I'll probably move away again. I warned my flatmates that I was a dickhead on the first day but in saying that I think they've met worse people, I'm just socially retarded living in a social dimension that I somewhat crave but deteste at the same time. I only ever tidy my room on 3 occasions, when it's too messy, when it smells, and when I'm trying to impress or actually if I'm in that mood to clean - I always point out my power rangers megazord to the people that I want to get to know me, so that they know I'm not mature in some aspects but not to be confused with unintelligent because that's not the case. I have a Blackberry, I only use the satnav for directions when I'm going places, but if I have the time I quite enjoy just wandering by myself preferably with Moby in my ears. I don't embrace communities I'm in as much as I probably should but I don't sweat about that too much. I've been in love, I've explored myself to my capacity so far, I'm too lazy to get a hobby or have any more strong beliefs, I wear nikes and vans, listen to hardstyle and ambient with everything in between, I have no fixed state of mind and what I really want most in this world is best left unsaid. So, every-time I log onto here I'm just gonna write a little about whatever or post something meaningful of that time so maybe one day I'll look back at it and see if I actually was what I thought I was or just lost in transit. I'm not really bothered if I get followers or not I'll chat shit anyway.