Thoughts

Alright, so here's what I'm thinking:


I. The More Power You Get, The Less Privacy You Should Have
The best kind of system, to me, is a transparent one. That way you can see exactly how the system works. There's no dyed plastic casing hiding away the inner workings of it, like one of your childhood toys, because there is no secret to be kept. No, with a truly transparent system, there are no secrets, and if it doesn't provide you with the results you want, all you have to do is take a look inside at all the parts, locate the problem, replace it or remove it entirely, and allow the system to return to it's optimal level of productivity.

If the system isn't transparent, well, it's like trying to photoshop a picture while the monitor off, or the brightness turned all the way down. It's really difficult to touch up the problem areas if you can't see them in the first place.

But going back to my original point, the more power someone gets, the less privacy they should have. It's good to know that the people who we elect to push for our interests and beliefs in our government are actually working for us, and not for someone who is offering them a pretty penny, someone else other than ourselves. It's better to keep our eye on them to make sure they're doing the will of the people, and not the will of the money holders. If my politician is a sell-out, I deserve to know, and I deserve to remove him from his office for putting his fake, friendly little facade on as he received "donations" behind our backs, outside of our knowledge. This is where your own gain begins to exceed the gain of the people you represent, to the point that you willingly put down the very people who asked you to bring them up; and this is where the problem lies.

Give me my fucking transparency. Show me for once that you really have nothing to hide. And if it turns out that you do have something to hide, I imagine it would be the fact that while all the commoners dwindle into the oblivion of poverty, you are making a profit off of our deterioration. And at that discovery, we will retaliate with such terrible vengeance, so horrific that it will be beyond your comprehension.

But of course, you've got nothing to hide, so we won't have that problem, now will we?


II. Probability Is A Pointless Endeavor
This one's a lot more simple than the first one. Probability is pretty much pointless, because no matter how many possible outcomes there are, we're only going to actually get to see one. And once that's happened, that's it. It certainly didn't "not happen". So really at the end of the day, either one of the possible outcomes occurs, or it doesn't, in which case another possible outcome would have occurred in the designated space. It doesn't matter if the chances of the Millennium Falcon's chances of survival in a field of star destroyers is six-thousand seven-hundred-whatever to one, if it can hit that "one" more than just once out of the six-thousand-whatever times, then the fact of the matter is, it occurred more than just once out of six-thousand seven hundred-etc. So probability is meaningless if out of an infinite number of possible next steps, only one can be chosen.

I don't know, maybe?


III. Our Imagination Is Our Own "Matrix"
Our minds spend more time living inside of our imaginations than anywhere else. Imagination is the very basis of thought itself, a space within our minds in which to create a virtual representation of the world around us. In our imagination, we make the rules, we determine the boundaries, assuming we choose to allow boundaries to exist at all. We play out scenarios in which impossible things happen, scenarios in which we fly like the birds, swim like the fishes, roar like the lions, things that our physical bodies will never experience, things they can only dream of ;)

Imagination creates an idealized world where everything is predictable because it is our own little universe, for which we play the role of God. Everything within it occurs exactly the way in which we like it to carry itself. It is your canvas, and you are the designer. The architect. Do what you wish with it. Fill it with happy things, fill it with sad things. Fill it with anger, hate, fear, whatever you like.

After a while you'll begin to notice that the world around you begins to change. The visualizations you create of the world begin to have an effect on your perception of the real world. You fill your imagination with hate, and when you look at the world around out, hate becomes the only thing you notice. You fill your imagination with fear, and the world suddenly becomes a scary, unfamiliar wilderness. Likewise, if you fill your imagination with love and happiness, well... the world suddenly begins to feel like it's filled with love and happiness.

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