McDonalds

We live like McDonalds someone said;

"We live like McDonalds, the system isn't good for us, it promotes monopolization and gives us indigestion. It gives us some good nutrients but is essentially bad for us. But day in day out people don't care, it's there - it's not immediately harmful and sometimes you just need a double cheese burger."

These posts have been a load of shit for a while haha, I just have bigger issues that I can't be arsed to write about but need to work though and blah blah blah


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People think morality is an innate knowledge that is instigated in all human beings and those that deviate from it are not genetically complete. Doing the utilitarian thing says that sometimes bad choices have good outcomes for the greater good. I think family, friends, emotions and Walter Disney teaches us right and wrong and we question our decisions sometimes because it's only natural, maybe the word of mouth of religion but I come from a secular lifestyle so I don't know, sort of like when you write and stare at a word for so long it begins to decode in your mind to a point where it doesn't make sense. I think we build our own type of 'morals' through how we've taken information in and defined it e.g. if someone hurts someone in a particular way we learn that that is not right and as we develop learn a more complex version of this that is combined with some soical etiquette and drive to act in a manor accepted by people around you, therefore so if I boy is raised a criminal by the people around him - it can be justified?

I realized I like writing because nothing ever makes sense when I talk haha

P.S. and the song (at the time of posting) isn't meant to brainwash you, I was just listening to it at the time haha - Munich

Expectation

I love this song at the moment.

Someone told me that Facebook, MySpace, PS3, XBox, fictional TV series etc were just ways to allude the mass into a false state of consciousness where they exist as existing entities and die unmoved living merely as a barcode and not actually achieving anything academically, emotionally or willingly- sometimes people don't care though, a good game is fun to play whether it be real or not.

This post isn't worth posting but here it is.

Since

Since my last post I've been home, had Christmas, NYE and Birthday, came back, and blah.

I watched Donny Darko for the first time just there - my take on it was that it was either a dream, or he completed time travel.

Made me think of the issue of power and who has it. Coming from a slightly different angle of theory I agree with Foucault that power IS everywhere, cocacola has power over rolla colla and teachers have power over pupils. He said that truths are power, but I disagree. I believe truths are subjective. I don't mean truths as in left is left, I mean ethics and morality. A persons mind is mainly molded by what they experience and are taught. If a person is only taught to murder then that is there ultimate truth and their maximum ethic yet the morality is out of their hands and into a more collective view that murder is wrong. So really what I have to conclude is that morality is not power or a truth unless challenged by something with less significance. Living in the world that we do today - morality is challenged every day by every one. If morality is collective then ethically we could all be living in Persian fur so long as we could have all afford it and saw nothing wrong with it back in the day. Because if no-one criticized it then there is no issue. Hello democracy.

In saying that, we got our morals from Disney and our parents whereas other countries don't raise children with parents or Disney so there might always be a challenge to ways of living so long as there are alternatives. Though not everyone in this country was born with Disney or a family. Some were but rejected both. This intercomplexety is confusing for me at 7am so to simplify; if we had the same morals built into us at birth why are there random crimes of hate against strangers for no known purpose? It's not answerable. Everything has purpose so we can only assume that everyone is different. And this massive push for individualism in the 21st Century is exactly why we are seeing a diffusion in politics, and everything around us. It's OK to be yourself.

Back to this net of power that has everything in it. Baudrillard said power only exists so long as there is something disrupting something else. The Sun has power over the Earth. But also linguistics. The way you say things can show power - even if they aren't truths. But due to each persons idiosyncrasy most things that aren't absolutes are interpreted differently as we didn't all watch the Lion King at the exact same time, you're individual life has shaped everything around you. Even if you are multi-dimensional, you don't perceive the same knowledge as the next person. (Absolutes are fundamentals such as 1+1=2)

Essentially what I've written here might make no sense to you, but it does to me, and if it made sense then maybe we have a different interpretation on it.

Either way we were both brought up into a Western, Capatalist, 'democratic', one party ruled nation amongst other things so we would have similar interpretations like separate pieces of blue tack walking along pavements picking up different bits - maybe.