I've been looking forward to seeing the movie 2012. I might try to talk the wife into going this weekend. She is not much into disaster movies so it will be a hard sell. Personally it doesn't bother me. I like watching movies and shows about the end of the world.
Part of the reason is we are all going to die at some point. Going out with everyone else in an end that has good special effects doesn't seem to me to be any worse than wasting away with a horrible illness or gradually watching everthing being taken away from you as you die from old age. Death is usually a solitary thing so going out with everyone else might not be so lonely. This is not to say I have a death wish. Far from it. My goal is to live long enough to see science make death optional. Then to live long enough to experience everything I want to experience, to gain all the knowledge I want or can and then when I am satisfied to simply decide ok I am done.
As for end of the world scenarios, I guess I would want to avoid those that have long prolonged painful deaths possibly involving starvation. Gamma ray bursts, asteroid impacts if you are not at ground zero, likewise super volcanos, robot revolutions (I have no illusions about our chances against advanced AI despite all the Terminator movies), basically any end that cannot be observed with a final glass (or bottle) of scotch and a pack of cigarrettes (I'm a closet occasional smoker). Advanced warning would probably not be a good thing either, months or years of waiting watching society unravel as our impending doom approached might be like hell on earth. I'm not sure what this leaves as an option. The sun suddenly exploding, a rogue planet appearing out of nowhere and smashing into earth, suddenly discovering the laws of physics are not as permanent as we thought as we all go drifting out into space. Hey it could happen, we only know the effects of the laws of physics, not the cause.
Anyhow, I was saying I kinda want to see this movie.
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- 40 years old, married with 2 kids and a dog.
The Purpose Of This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to discuss how we can move society towards more individual freedom. Let me start by saying I have always considered myself a conservative. Small government, traditional family values etc. Lately I find myself more concerned with the small government aspect.
We are losing our freedom as individuals. No matter what action government takes it keeps gradually gaining power and we keep losing control over our lives. It started so innocently. Smoking for example. First came the warnings on cigarettes and banning commercials on TV, now I can't have a beer and a cigarette in a bar in my state. Seat belts were the same way. First the government mandated the manufacturers include them in cars, now the government tells me I have to use them. I am not going to spend a lot of time writing how smoking is bad or seat belts are good and that is part of the point. Individuals know or should know what is good and bad for them. It is part of personal responsibility. The less personal responsibility we have the more control the government takes.
Everyone wants to use government for their own ends. People who don't like smoking want the government to ban smoking, people who want others to be healthy want the government to force people to be healthy (or what they judge to be healthy), people who want government to promote families create tax incentives and other legal protections for families and the list goes on. The problem is to do each of these things government must have control of those areas. Once government has control they are the power broker. The government uses this power to enrich itself and maintain its power. Now you have to protect yourself against the government and to do that you have got to lobby the right people and keep your powerful congressman in office to protect you.
I will write more as I have time and when things occur to me. I don't know if others will be interested in my blog. If so, great, if not, oh well.
We are losing our freedom as individuals. No matter what action government takes it keeps gradually gaining power and we keep losing control over our lives. It started so innocently. Smoking for example. First came the warnings on cigarettes and banning commercials on TV, now I can't have a beer and a cigarette in a bar in my state. Seat belts were the same way. First the government mandated the manufacturers include them in cars, now the government tells me I have to use them. I am not going to spend a lot of time writing how smoking is bad or seat belts are good and that is part of the point. Individuals know or should know what is good and bad for them. It is part of personal responsibility. The less personal responsibility we have the more control the government takes.
Everyone wants to use government for their own ends. People who don't like smoking want the government to ban smoking, people who want others to be healthy want the government to force people to be healthy (or what they judge to be healthy), people who want government to promote families create tax incentives and other legal protections for families and the list goes on. The problem is to do each of these things government must have control of those areas. Once government has control they are the power broker. The government uses this power to enrich itself and maintain its power. Now you have to protect yourself against the government and to do that you have got to lobby the right people and keep your powerful congressman in office to protect you.
I will write more as I have time and when things occur to me. I don't know if others will be interested in my blog. If so, great, if not, oh well.
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