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Apr. 9th, 2004 09:41 pmWe just watched Bowling for Columbine which I had somehow never got round to watching before, and I was just amazed. I mean, just, wow.
But I just don't get it. I don't get what the fuck is wrong with the world that there can be all these people living in such fear, in such hate, that there can be people who claim violence as a duty and a right, that...
This is partly connected to something I was thinking about the other day, which is just a basic clash of worldviews, in that I cannot physically comprehend why people would be against nationalised health-care (and yeah, I've met the NHS, I know how shit it is, but it treated my mother through two years of cancer and we didn't end up in shitloads of debt on top of losing her) and I cannot understand a system that will give tax breaks - tax breaks! - to the rich that are greater than the average yearly wage of the poor and I cannot believe in a people that steadfastly refuse to see the link between a high rate of gun crime and the fact that you can buy a fucking gun in a fucking supermarket!
I don't get it. My brain just doesn't twist that way. I. Don't. Understand.
Eek. And that makes me feel a bit pathetic for all my shrieking earlier about fucking Fortran - I sent off an email to the guy in charge of the course, asking what I have to do to just pass it, because I just want rid of the fucker.
But... But.
I love Michael Moore now. I was very impressed. Also, that kid, buying up all the ammo from the nearest K-Mart - that was inspired. There were several moments that I just had to applaud. Because it was so true.
Hell. I don't know. Just... who wants to live in a world like this? Seriously.
Not, of course, that I would ever actually attempt to do anything about it, god forbid.
*gesticulates helplessly*
But I just don't get it. I don't get what the fuck is wrong with the world that there can be all these people living in such fear, in such hate, that there can be people who claim violence as a duty and a right, that...
This is partly connected to something I was thinking about the other day, which is just a basic clash of worldviews, in that I cannot physically comprehend why people would be against nationalised health-care (and yeah, I've met the NHS, I know how shit it is, but it treated my mother through two years of cancer and we didn't end up in shitloads of debt on top of losing her) and I cannot understand a system that will give tax breaks - tax breaks! - to the rich that are greater than the average yearly wage of the poor and I cannot believe in a people that steadfastly refuse to see the link between a high rate of gun crime and the fact that you can buy a fucking gun in a fucking supermarket!
I don't get it. My brain just doesn't twist that way. I. Don't. Understand.
Eek. And that makes me feel a bit pathetic for all my shrieking earlier about fucking Fortran - I sent off an email to the guy in charge of the course, asking what I have to do to just pass it, because I just want rid of the fucker.
But... But.
I love Michael Moore now. I was very impressed. Also, that kid, buying up all the ammo from the nearest K-Mart - that was inspired. There were several moments that I just had to applaud. Because it was so true.
Hell. I don't know. Just... who wants to live in a world like this? Seriously.
Not, of course, that I would ever actually attempt to do anything about it, god forbid.
*gesticulates helplessly*
