God! Intercede damnit!

Good morning. Did you guys catch that fucking awesome thunderstorm last night? It was incredible. Seemed like there was steady sounds of thunder for fourty minutes or so. Usually thunder and lightening are very sparing in showing their brilliance and letting out their rumble. But not yesterday. The storm knocked a lot of shit over in the GTA. I keep hearing on the news about the clean-up people being rushed all over. There were some dangerous sections where there were downed hydro lines. Stuff like that makes me sub-consciously nervous. I wouldn't want to wonder around the city during a storm like that near any power lines. So far it looks nice out today. It is a little breezy, but very sunny. Summerfolk is fast approaching. I am pretty excited about it. I think time is flying by because I am not idle much these days. I am either working or hanging out with my friends. I haven't had a day where I haven't done either of those things probably for months now. It is good to not be idle. I think that must be a big cause of depression.

You become pretty self centred and focussed on all the problems you think you have. Whereas they probably arent all that bad due to the fact that we live in a part of the world where we are very privileged and have a lot of opportunities offered. I have decided I want to go to a jail sometime just to see the inside of one. I never have. I have never even visited anyone inside. I want to know if it is better or worse then people make it out to be. I know Canadian prisons probably aren't half as bad as it would be going into an American one. But I could see myself going insane being trapped in a small space for a majority of the time. Whoever thought that incarceration was a good rehabilatating tool I think was probably wrong. Taking away your freedom you would think would stunt your ability to fit back into the mold of society. Isn't that what we want to do with criminals? Make them fit to be citizens? It isn't like I have any great ideas for rehabilitation. Because I don't. Some people it seems almost impossible to rehabilitate. Like rapists or any other sort of sex criminal.

The re-offend rate is incredibly high. We should castrate them or something. Whereas most murderers are more then likely never going to recommit ever again. A lot of murders are crimes of passion that will probably never happen again. I think the justice system is more based on making the victims and families of the victims feel better. It is a vengeful thing. Not a system instituted to help these people understand how the crimes they commit seriously damage others. Whenever I hear on the news a victims family members talking, they want someone to pay for what they have done. I can understand that feeling. I would probably feel the same way. But then again, a grieving family member is not in a rational state of mind. Yet we feed on their anger and need for vengence and as a society use the law to satisfy our need for revenge. What happens when our society keeps growing and growing in population and we have to have insane amounts of prisons? What happens when we can't support or room all these people anymore?

Will we institute the death penalty on more and more crimes just so we can manage to incarcerate everyone we need to? Or will we grow more leniant? I know the states have an insane amount of incarcerated people. One percent or so of their population I believe. So that would be around three milion people. Last time I checked I think the States population was around three hundred million. I was listening to a guy on the talk radio show I listen to at night. He was talking about how we as humans are pretty arrogant to think we are responsible for climate change. That just because something is changing and we are aware beings doesn't mean we are responsible for it. The climate has been recorded as being weird and changing since the time of the Sumarians. But our culture records the weather very thoroughly now. So we can put more focus on the changes by saying stuff like, there wre only this many tornadoes or floods etc. during this time. Now we have "X" amount this year which is a larger number. More people are driving cars and burning styrofoam. So it must be our fault.

All of this could be more natural. We are just affected more by harsh weather conditions because people populate a larger area of the earth. So when natural disasters happen, people are now more likely to be killed. Giving those things more focus. But there are also very worrisome things happening. At least I think they are worrisome. I don't know what I actually should worry about these days because I believe we have a media that wants people to constantly be living in fear of something. But the fact that polar ice caps are melting and it is causing animals to drown and sea levels to rise makes me worried. But also, how do we know this isn't something the earth goes through every ten thousand years, every million years? We don't. Everything does go through different cycles. Every living thing. It would make sense if the earth did as well. It is hard to find that medium of what you should worry about just to be a good human being. Because there are some things we should care about and fight for. But there is so much we are told is wrong with everything, that where do we begin?

I believe this is why I am generally an apathetic human being. There is so much I am told I should care about, that it is overwhelming and I just don't care about much. I don't live in fear of the present or the future as mmuch as possible. I figure no matter what I do, the general state of things isn't going to change. I am only one person. If I died tomorrow, it would have no lasting affect on the world. Everything has become so much more dilluted as human history goes, that individuals become less and less important. The power is in the masses. But we are so divided on what is worth fighting for, that nothing gets done. Maybe that is our curse as the powerful race that we are. We are so many little factions of power battling each other, that we will inevitably be our own doom. But that seems very human to me. So I don't think there is much to be done about it. A large amount of us need to die off. Something big needs to happen. then there will be change. But posting billboards and picketting bullshit, it is a pointless thing. You won't accomplish much except being grouped in with "that radical crowd". Anyways, I think I am done my musing through text for the day. I hope you all have a productive and fun-filled day. I know mine will be productive. I am sure I will dig up some fun as well. Cheers!