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Steely Green Eyes Scan The World
Jun. 1st, 2004 01:40 pmAfter updating yesterday, I went home and played five hours of The Sims. I took a break to grill some veggie burgers, cook some hash-browns, then plopped myself on the couch again for reading Doomsday reviews of the world's climate changes and watching Doomsday reality shows which leave you addicted and wanting to buy Cable TV.
As we lay down to sleep, Kevin put on a CD of music by a band called The Sixths (which is basically cover songs of The Magnetic Fields) and I fell into a reverie. They were very goth-like songs and I suddenly started thinking about what makes a person a goth, a punk, a whatever: what drives someone to pledge allegiance to a pop-culture movement and revolve their lives around it. I came up with no answers but those songs left me slightly sad - for myself. Listening to moody songs inevitably pushes me into my self and to all those anxious thoughts about the future, the present and the missed past.
I do believe that something is going to happen in our lifetimes, something bigger than Iraq, September 11 or Bush. I know this sounds fairly apocalyptic, but things honestly can't stay the way they are. Therefore, we must be heading for some kind of "collapse". I don't know where I'll be when that happens, when the shit hits the fan. Will it be a sudden "freezing over" of England? Or a Summer that lasts a year? Whatever it is, I feel that I have to do something right now for myself, to prepare.
*alarm bells in your head about my sanity*
But, seriously, isn't it better to be ready now? To feel that you can go to another country in case you have to? I'm lucky in that sense for having a Brazilian passport - I do believe Brazil is a lucky country in terms of food, water and land resources. I'm not banging the kitchen pans and proclaiming Armageddon, but I'm convinced that I have to be secure in myself of what the future holds for us.
Where will you be when the world's economy collapses?
As we lay down to sleep, Kevin put on a CD of music by a band called The Sixths (which is basically cover songs of The Magnetic Fields) and I fell into a reverie. They were very goth-like songs and I suddenly started thinking about what makes a person a goth, a punk, a whatever: what drives someone to pledge allegiance to a pop-culture movement and revolve their lives around it. I came up with no answers but those songs left me slightly sad - for myself. Listening to moody songs inevitably pushes me into my self and to all those anxious thoughts about the future, the present and the missed past.
I do believe that something is going to happen in our lifetimes, something bigger than Iraq, September 11 or Bush. I know this sounds fairly apocalyptic, but things honestly can't stay the way they are. Therefore, we must be heading for some kind of "collapse". I don't know where I'll be when that happens, when the shit hits the fan. Will it be a sudden "freezing over" of England? Or a Summer that lasts a year? Whatever it is, I feel that I have to do something right now for myself, to prepare.
*alarm bells in your head about my sanity*
But, seriously, isn't it better to be ready now? To feel that you can go to another country in case you have to? I'm lucky in that sense for having a Brazilian passport - I do believe Brazil is a lucky country in terms of food, water and land resources. I'm not banging the kitchen pans and proclaiming Armageddon, but I'm convinced that I have to be secure in myself of what the future holds for us.
Where will you be when the world's economy collapses?
