The One Way to Play

Empires, and insurgencies, and all that jazz.

It's old, obviously, but I think it matches up, and expresses part of why I find Bush so @$!#ing scary.

Life, in general

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else." - Ursula K. LeGuin, "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Read the whole story. It's short.

And... I dunno. I'm just not satisfied with life right now. I'm definitely going to have to find a new job after Christmas, I'm only still there right now because I'm not going to abandon the store right before Christmas. I feel the need to DO something. Especially after the election. I'm just not sure what, right now. I need to figure out what would be the best use of my skills, I guess. I'm just not sure right now. I want to do something direct to help people and make the world a better place, but I'm not sure how much difference it'd make. I don't know. I looked at the Peace Corps site the other day, but I don't have any of the training they want for anything, and I have enough trouble fitting in here, well, here being not-Internet, so I dunno how great an idea that'd be. And I'm not sure that'd be the best thing to do... I really don't know right now. But I know I need to do something besides what I'm doing now. And I'm open to suggestions as to what.