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…but Relentless prices up?

It’s a bit of an economical mixed bag. I was enjoying it when a can of Relentless was cheaper than a litre of petrol. Fuck petrol! Though the fact that it’s getting cheaper is probably a good thing. It’s less than 94p per litre at my local supermarket, but they put Relentless Inferno up about 10p just a few days ago! Nightmare!

But I went to 24 hour Tesco on campus yesterday night and bought some where it was still under £1. It’s good.

I don’t think I am being affected very much by the, ah, “credit crunch.” Things still seem to be costing the same as they always have. And, as usual, it’s easy to spend too much. Especially with my housemates; they don’t really realise that students aren’t meant to live in comfort and luxury. They’re supposed to buy all the cheapest things possible and barely live on them. It’s a nightmare when other people come back from shopping and ask for my money. They didn’t ask what I wanted to put my money towards…

Oh well, got a little bit of cash coming soon enough (in time for the holiday season, in fact), and maybe a little pocket of cash as gifts from Santa. Money is a bitch, but it’s the only path to true happiness.

Yeah, yeah, ‘grats and everything.

Just don’t, you know… get shot.

“All he did was win a few Formula One races, why are they making him President?”

Why do we care? They won’t give nearly as much thought to us when our general election rolls around. I don’t know. It’s fun to think about.

Alex Gibson, a fellow nonbeliever, said recently that the situation over in the US of A just looks like the battle between good and evil.

Obviously Obama is the good guy… The guy’s practically a hero. Even if he doesn’t get elected, he’ll probably take the Al Gore route and become involved in important, planet-saving projects. Whereas if McCain doesn’t get elected, boo hoo, Palin will cry, McCain will die and that’ll be the end of that.

Obama should be able to drag that ass-backwards country into the tolerant, enlightened 21st Century, where things like Prop 8 are simply an abomination… It does seem like an outright fight between good and evil.

Do we get anything like that over here? Sharia Law is probably the most controversial thing going on here… Stupid Islam trying to inflict itself on us. This un-secular state is faced with two choices now; to support other religions like it supports its own (unfairly and without justification), or to bite the bullet and climb down off this mountain of shit it’s backed up on and scrap state-funded faith schools and Bishops in the House of Lords.

Let’s hope things go the right way for us both. We want to cut out all this “God Bless America” bollocks, and we need to avert “Allah Bless England” before it arrives.

I just want to throw in a really quick little note about technocracy… again.

Two microcosmic systems of putting men of science in power over a lot of resources (both money and manpower) have been recently portrayed by Hollywood. They are of course:

• Batman
• Iron Man

And let’s not forget Spider-Man, who was a gifted scientist (granted, that didn’t play much of a part in his heroism in the films, but in the original comics, he invented his own webslingers).

Now, I’m not saying that anything like this would definitely happen, but just look at what has already been achieved without technological advancement at the forefront of the world leaders’ priorities.

Just give it a chance.

It’s very historical and fun and tourist-attracting, but it’s difficult to take the monarchy seriously anymore.

The Queen is purely a figurehead anyway. Things are decided by Parliament; I’m sure we all know that. There really is no point in having a Queen, other than it makes printing and minting money that much easier, since you never have to make a decision about what’s on the back of the coin.

The trouble is, we’ve come entirely too far to do anything about changing it. It would require nothing short of a flat-out revolution to change these things, and as far as I know, people are too frightened, lazy and contented to revolt these days.

If times were bad, everyone would love a revolution. But currently, the situation is that people are perfectly happy with the way things are. Everyone has their little complaints, but by far not enough to do anything about them (other than complain). Things are “ok” how they are, and that seems to be all that most of us need.

Of course, one revolutionary isn’t going to make a huge difference. We need lots and lots of people to kick things off, and I suspect that such a thing won’t happen in the Western world, ever. If nuclear war were pending then it might galvanise people into action. But nothing short of the threat of impending apocalypse is going to work.

Technocracy

But what if it did? Wouldn’t that be great? The space-race, nuclear war, chemical war, electronic war (Die Hard 4.0 style) or some other modern cause for panic that’s faster than global warming starts, and everybody goes crazy. What will happen? Well, if we’re lucky, people will turn to the scientists to protect them. If the populace gets desperate enough, they might turn to something they don’t understand to salvage their world. Presently, we are more than happy to elect leaders based on their persuasive words, not their persuasive qualifications. Tony Blair studied jurisprudence at Oxford. The theory and philosophy of law. What I want is a prime minister who studied physics or maths. Maybe the world would turn to men of science in its time of desperation.

With more and more parts of our lives being influenced by technological advances, why are we not searching for officials who excel in scientific fields? Get the right people and they can run the world like a well-oiled machine, not the festering ball of corruption and politics and war and religion that it is now. When we get to the fucking moon, do you think the astronauts are going to let just anyone come and live in their perfect new paradise? Fuck no! They’re going to let the war-mongers and the politicians and the bureaucrats and the kings and queens and the presidents all kill each other on Earth (or, as it will be referred to then, the Doomsphere) with their nukes and greenhouse effect while the Moonians (or maybe lunar-tics?) will instate a High Technocrat, a man of (computer) science and logic, to be the head of the state.

I vote: me.

This is the New System of Government: Failocracy

Arrgh bleeding heart liberal scum students infecting my university.

This Union will not ban Racist & Fascist Speakers
Total Votes: 2053
Votes For: 1020
Votes Against: 954
Abstentions: 79

This motion has carried
Read the policy here

The University of Warwick’s Student Union is full of baby-eating satanic racists and fascists who want to kill your families and enslave immigrants.

There really is only one real solution to democratic elections…