[  Mood: Confused ]
[  Currently: Watching u fap. ]
I’m not sure how the crap trackback pings work on all those sites that typically use them. I just ignore it and scroll past typically, so let’s see if vaguely linking to the trackback URL of a video of a horrible tragedy does anything for me.

And now I wait for the internet fairy to bring me traffic. I guess I may as well comment on the content of that video in the meantime. Basically, a bunch of rich European hippies decided that it would be pretty bad ass to go hiking in the most communist part of China. There they witnessed Bhuddist pilgrims trying to make their way to India to touch the Dalai Lama being gunned down by Chinese soldiers.

We’ve had quite a few people in the entertainment industry use the west’s value of freedom of speech to scare the Hell out of the public. Lots of cyber punk stuff conjuring Orwellian views of the future, wherein society is not free, the public is incapable of defending itself, religious tolerance is replaced by obedience to the state, etcetera. Pleasant places to unleash Johnny Mnemonic or V or some blonde woman running with a hammer on. But those characteristics don’t really describe the direction western civilization is headed, it describes where a lot of eastern civilization already is. Anything implying the opposite is just trying to prey on fear to make money, while anyone interpreting the opposite is just spitting on political opposition. Dystopian future movies like Aeon Flux, The Matrix, that one where Milla Jovavich ran around in front of a blue screen for two hours in slow motion are pretty entertaining, yeah, but that’s all they are. Pretty entertaining.