Hello my darling plumkins, I only have 10 minutes to write a note on here, so I'll get to the point as fast as I can.
I was discussing with someon today why she doesn't like several people who she's known for about a year. Don't get me wrong, she used to like them, but she says they've changed beyond her recognition.
So how much can a person change, as i really deep down? Their changes are mostly mouth and no trousers, but some of their values have changed as ell, and I think that's what's gnawing her; they aren't the people she made friends with a year ago.
Apparently I've changed - more confident, I swear more, I'm even more cynical than I used to be, and I've started treating everyone initially with the same amount of respect (I used to be a real lap dog when it came to adults, no idea why). I can tell why I've changed, and I hope most of these changes are for the better, but I'm not here to judge myself, that's what society is for. But some of my values have changed too: I'm more understanding of animal testing, and I've come to the conclusion that socialism would only work if we were all Karl Marx. But I still hold some things: being polite to strangers unless they're rude to me, trying hard in exams stuff like that. If they changed, I just wouldn't be me.
So have these people lost all contact with their original defining features? None of them are less confident now, and I don't think they've grown any more bitchy (that was what year 9 was for). But how much needs to change to know something is different?
I had a friend who, for no reason at all it seemed, started changing. At first it was little habits - he started fidgetting more, he became more confident, he got funnier, fearless and more of an outgoing person. Don't get me wrong, this took about 6 months. He wore different clothes, talked more, and slowly stopped being the guy we knew and became someone similar to, but sufficiently not, my mate. We had some arguments, fell out, and i found out later on that he'd started using drugs. But it was a slow change, barely noticeable at the time, but when I thought back, I could see him changing slowly. Small things, very slowly, but enough over time to make him different.
Bah.
I'm sorry my darlings, I've neglected you so. I've got about 5 posts half written that need improving and updating as some are news-related and now innaccurate.
So what for now? There's some serious shit going on right now, what with Iraq, Glasgow, all that. Glasgow is another matter that I don't know enough about to comment on, it so far seems to have been a tragic accident and official figures aren't out yet, so, another time.
But in the meantime, what drives one human being to torture another in the way that we're seeing daily in Iraq? And why weren't the American public more outraged when they first came out? It took a whole fortnight for them to make front-page news. What the fuck is going on? Ordered to kill and humiliate prisoners? Does Geneva mean nothing to them? They probably don't even realise it's a place in Switzerland.
And it isn't just the US, Britain is to blame as well. Mowing down civilians because they were in the way? Bloody hell, what's happening to us?
People were horrified by the stories and pictures that came out from the concentration camps after the war. Prisoners forced to strip and walk naked to the gas chambers, their hair used to stuff sofas and their skin to make lampshades. Tell me how these pictures of torture are any better.
There is no peace in war, it's an oxymoron. Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity (that's a quote, I wish I'd thought of it). How many more stories of torture are we going to hear from other war zones?
And will the presidential elections be fixed again this year?
