Sheeple Nation

This is the token place-holder introductory paragraph which apologizes for the incoherent mess to follow.I am a very amorphous person. My mood changes very rapidly, and I have a lot of different sides, or meta-moods, which can predominate in differing strengths and combinations, making my behavior somewhat difficult for other people to predict.I am volatile. I have high expectations.I laugh a lot. In spite of my stoic and somewhat stern countenance, there is almost always laughter hidden somewhere in me.Everything I say is a joke. Everything I say is serious.I seldom laugh at specific people, but I am completely merciless about mocking large groups of people -- I mock race, sex, religion, and anything else I can think of. I think that the concept of "Politically Correct" is horrible evil poison, which should be incinerated and buried, encased in salt and silver, no less than five miles under the surface of the Earth. Deserving people should be treated with respect, but ritualistically avoiding certain terms or certain types of jokes does not make you respectful, it makes you an idiot. Respect is how you treat someone, not what you laugh at.I am an empiricist, a rational thinker, and adhere strongly to integral principles. I have relatively spartan, austere beliefs; I'm always in favor of replacing an idea of my own with a better one.I value my integrity and my self respect more than I value anything else.I am not a fan of religion, nor the idea of worship in general. I don't like deifying things, and I really detest zealots. I hold a very scientific view of the world -- not that I believe all science is correct, but that I am not willing to believe in something without any proof, I'm not against having a set of spiritual beliefs(I have my own, after all), but I like it when people don't take it so fucking seriously -- I mean, really, we'll all die eventually; we can find out what comes after the last great adventure, once we have it.I don't care if someone is loud or soft spoken, and I really don't care if you read the same exact books, like the same music, or eat the same food, although I am relatively unsympathetic toward (morally superior) vegetarians for a number of reasons.What I do care about is how much you value beauty, if you would change your mind about an important conception if it was proven wrong, or if you would lie without an extremely good reason(Good reason: gun to your head. Bad reason: to make someone like you). I also do not cope well with people who cannot hold a meaningful conversation, or who think there is something 'dirty' about sex, or who hold a lot of social taboos without ever honestly evaluating whether they exist for a good reason or not.I love English and speaking well, (some)poetry and stories, visual art, and music. These things might all be, in their own way, primitive simulacra of the beauty of the natural world, but what the artist puts into the medium of his own spirit can more than make up the difference. I have strong opinions about art of all kinds, but I am always looking to expand my aesthetic; there are few things better than discovering a whole new realm of beauty to explore.I consider myself a scientist, philosopher, and student of the world. I don't believe anything exists 'for a reason', but I do think that combination of circumstances can bring unexpected wonder(or dread) into a person's life.I am proud of who I am; I am proud of the life I have lived.Now that I've spouted enough abstract bullshit about myself, here are some specifics of what I like, my hobbies, and what I want to be when I grow up:I love forests; oceans and beaches; deserts; mountains; bamboo forests; ocean life; deserts; thunderstorms; wind, rain, fog and mist; the moon(especially); the sun; cold, clear nights; Summer nights; all the seasons; frogs(particularly bullfrogs), lakes, and fireflies; and watching the sun and moon rise and set.I do a lot of things on the computer. I have a raging information addiction which I used to sate by reading gobs and gobs of books, before I found that broadband and Google could find me articles on everything I could ever dream to ask about, and a few things I hadn't ever thought I would care to know, but ended up liking anyway.I write poetry, on rare occasions, surreal prose, short stories, and essays. I should probably blog a lot more, because I waste a lot of good ideas by discussing them with myself, when they would make excellent opportunities to better my writing and garner feedback.