So, I've been putting a lot of thought into this. Nietzsche once said,"Become the person you are." I'm not happy with the person I am now and haven't been for a while, so I have yet to become the person who I am. I've thought constantly, and I haven't found shit. I just don't know. I can see I'm in a conflict betwixt the individual and the collective. At one point I wish to become der Ubermensch. The artist tyrant. But, I'm so fucking lazy I'm not getting enough practice to live up to that idea. But one only gets one life and when should find what they want out of it and do whatever it takes to get that. I'm sure of that. But then there's the collective. The Brother's keeper concept. That society was made and an agreement betwixt mankind, to benefit, serve, and create a better life for all. It's the most sacred thing. Which comes first?
Aside from that, I'm a relatively nice person, though some see that more/less than others. I'm also a bit mean spirited and like to see bad things happen to people who aren't me, and some see that more/less than others. I play guitar and I like that a lot but I don't have the time and initiative to do that to the best of my ability. I think a big part of that search for the person I am will be the fight against my laziness, but that will be a long fight and I'm to lazy to find it. I like a lot of things, and most of the are in my interests. I'm always bored, and if you'd ever like to help me out with that, by all means send me your AIM s/n and I'll send you mine. I'm always on.
"'But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness,I want sin.'
'Infact,'said Mustapha Mond,'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Alright then,'said the savage defiantly,"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have to little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.'There was a long silence.
'I claim them all,'said the savage at last."-pg 240 of Brave New World."I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq."Dick Cheney - At the Washington Institute 's Soref Symposium, April 29 , 1991
