The World in all its Worldliness.

The world is silly. So, so silly. Of course, "silly" is probably a freakish understatement for use in this kind of sentence, but still I will use it, because it sounds so... so... so, well, silly.

Righty. So, today at lunchtime there was what can be described as none other than a role-playing of history. Yes, that IS how weird we are. With Jess as a very aristocratic Tsar, myself as Lenin, Isaac as the high priest and others as various revolutionaries and serfs, we pretty much recreated the politics of early 20th century Russia. We had guns and ice and palaces and everything.
Kidding, but we should have.

*No doubt that from this point on I will speak complete and utter wubbish. Discontinue reading if you feel your brain begin to leap out through your ears in fright.*

And so this leads me to my argument (though I'm sure the most part of you will agree) that the world is so terribly, horribly, excruciatingly silly.

There is something wrong with EVERYTHING.

Man says, "oh look, a wonderful, naturally beautiful forest, abundant with animals and plant life and things which might one day cure cancer... Let's chop it all down so we can build something uglifyingly modern and polluted!"

Man looks at a lovely, peaceful country and exclaims, "Ooooh I just had the most wonderful idea! Why don't we bomb it to smithereens?"

There is also, we assume, something which will take over from everything.

Man looks at a lovely cuddly tiger cub, the last of its species, and shoots it anyway, thinking 'never mind, more of them will materialize out of thin air later.'

So, what do we do when all the forests have been ripped down, the last predator slaughtered, the last able bodied man and woman killed in the ravages of war? Will we turn our nukes on ourselves? Because, of course, by that time everyone will have nukes and the arms race will be over, and all we'll have left to do is sit and wait and see who obliterates who first, so the chain of events can happen and so the earth can be destroyed.

I know, I know, sometimes I like to think of myself as terribly philosophical.

History is completely ridiculous, not only because of how goddamn much there is of it, but because of the people in it. People in History have done retarded things.
Take Tsar Nicholas II. He went to war and left his inept wife and holy man to manage things while he was gone. No wonder a heap of his people hated him; he was utterly useless.

Funny, but all I can think about when I think of History is war, or attempt at it; World Wars I and II, the War in Vietnam, the Boer War, Ancient Athen's multiple wars with Sparta, The Russian Civil War, The American Civil War, Napoleon's attempt at war on Russia, the Rwandan Genocide, Pol Pot, King Alexander's conquers, ANZAC in the Wars, the War in Afghanistan...

Does war, in some ways, shape our lives? In a sick, twisted way, are we used to it? The bombing of the Twin Towers in 2001 was horrific enough, as were the terrorist bombings in London, but when I really think about it, I can't seem to be shocked by anything anymore. Even natural disasters- the Earth's war on man- don't have the same effect. Mum was quite horrified to find that when that earthquake hit Chile, I could do more but say "how sad".

Is it just me, or is it our generation?

Is it, to some extent, the internet, even? Maybe not so much for some of you, but I've seen some pretty bad stuff, and I don't even get surprised anymore, because I know that there is "bad and evil stuffs on teh internetz".

Whatever it is, the world is silly and we all know why, we just, for some reason, can't fix it. It's one of those reactions, the one you can't reverse (I forget what it's called- this was Y11 SCI). You mix in all the pain and suffering and destruction until you've got this big, broiling, bubbly mess, and you can't undo all these separate things and put them on the back shelves where they belong.

People are stupid. Stupid, smelly, insignificant people, ruining everything and making messes and not cleaning them up. Yeah....
Not you guys, though! You guys are great! (end reference).

Righty right. And so now I'm going to educate you lot and myself, and clear up some stuff, because though I do know quite a bit about political systems, especially communism and aristocracy, here are some simple definitions. Don't laugh, I'm just wasting time :D (Yes yes, I know most of this is copy pasta-ed from Wiki):

1. Communism: a social structure in which classes are abolished and property is commonly controlled. Karl Marx was the father of this thought, and his thoughts were followed by people such as Vladimir Lenin and Ho Chi Minh.

2. Aristocracy: a social structure in which one person has complete and utter control over the people- where no one in his country is his equal. For example, Tsar Nicholas II.

3. Democracy: a system carried out either by the people or by means of elections by the people (such as New Zealand :D).

4. Oligarchy: a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, military might, or religious leadership. Oligarchy is a Greek term, and there were oligarchic movements in Ancient Greek.

5. Facism: Fascism is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy, e.g. Italy's Benito Mussolini.

6. Anarchism: a stateless society; one which considers states to be undesirable (NB: there are several types and traditions of anarchism, and according to The Oxford Companion to Theology, "there is no single defining position that all anarchists hold, and those considered anarchists at best share a certain family resemblance."

7. Monarchy: in which all political power is absolutely or nominally lodged with an individual (England). The monarch is the head of state until their death or abdication (voluntarily stepping down).

8. Feudalism: Feudalism is a decentralized sociopolitical structure in which a weak monarchy attempts to control the lands of the realm through reciprocal agreements with regional leaders

9. Theocracy: a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler, or in a higher sense, a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

10. Republic: A republic is a type of government where the citizens choose their leaders of their country and the people (or at least a part of its people) have an impact on its government.

So, there we have it children, Rosie just demonstrated her ctrl + c skillz. Ahaha.

I actually do know some of that shit though. Never knew what Theocracy was, exactly, though. You learn something new every day :D :D

Right, random rant over. You better leave a damn comment, cause I was writing this on and off for nearly two hours :P