Dark comes to light

Back in the 80’s when I was little I was always wanting to write a story about the bad guy winning.  Or at least how the bad guy thought he was doing good.  Just because we never saw the story from the bad guy’s perspective and it was something different.

Over the years I know I’ve changed morally.  I believe we now glorify the bad guy.  So the very thing I wished, has been granted and turned against me.  It wouldn’t be so bad if it were just simple things like in fantasy stories where the vampires are no longer monsters but the heroes and where dragons instead of being beasts to be feared were sentient beings to be befriended.  But now it’s the rapper who kids idolize his drug addicted way of life.  The criminal who helps the FBI catch other bad guys.  The murderer having his face splashed across the screen making him known to all and nearly made into a hero himself.

It has gone from being an original story to every day life, and it’s somewhat sickening.  I understand and appreciate that people like to seek out the dark and mysterious.  It’s human nature to wish to explore and learn about all things, especially those forbidden to us, because we must experience for ourselves why they are forbidden to us.  But why, for god’s sake, must we put the bad boy on to a pedestal.

I used to think shows from the 50’s even all the way through the 80’s with their perfect families and such were so trite.  However, I see their value now.  It’s not saying that the world is perfect and ignoring all the bad things in life.  No, they’re saying, this is what we should strive for.

Should a woman bend her will to her husband, have his dinner ready when he gets home, etc?  No, but she should have respect for her husband, and he for her.  It’s the values and morals of these old fashioned ideas that this world is losing and it’s taking our humanity with it.  Divorce is high now, not because a husband beats his wife, but because they’re simply tired of each other.  It’s all too easy because we’ve already let the bad guys win.

Loyalty means nothing, hell, there’s even loyalty among thieves and yet there is none between husband and wife.  Honor, most criminals have a code of honor, or at least they used to, but that’s all been blown out the window.  It is in these difficult economic times that we mustn’t let loose of our morals.  They are being tested as well as our will, and if we let go of them than the world would certainly become dark.  And what then would we have to look forward to?  What hope would we have?  We’d only have old 50’s tv shows that we wouldn’t even understand.

I’m a Scientist, I Don’t Believe in Anything

Originally posted October 17th, 2005

When Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” he was saying that he doesn’t know if anything outside his own imagination exists but he knew he did.

How true is this?  How do we know that thinking is a function of life?  Animals think, therefore they must be alive right?  Well what about plants?  True Descartes was probably only referring to sentient beings but was he?

As another great philosopher ironically put it; “How do we know we don’t exist in a box sitting on someone’s table.”  Here Picard was speaking of a “trapped” Hollographic, i.e. virtual, i.e. NOT ALIVE, Moriarty and the ironic part comes in that Picard is just that, a fictitious character being projected onto the inside of a box sitting on a table that we were watching.  While many Trekkies would argue that Picard very much is alive, he is not.  He thinks he’s alive but he’s not real.

Of course Descartes accounts for this ultimately saying you may think your alive but he doesn’t know that, he only knows he’s alive.  Therefore, for all we know, Picard may be alive.

Are you going in circles yet?