political systems

I've been hearing a lot lately about all this political shit. Frankly, it's got me annoyed. People go on and on and on, saying they're all for free speech and freedom of goverment and democracy and flowers and puppies and all that. Then turn around and bitch and complain when what they want to happen, doesn't happen. Frankly, the main reason the world is falling apart is because democracy reins. That's right, I said it, democracy is killing the world. Now, no political system is perfect. It can't be. If there is one that is perfect, it hasn't been invented yet and never will. That said, I've been reading through bits of history, political stuff mostly and after all that, I've come to see the truth behind it all. There was one man in history who made the system work. One man who made the goverment work, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Following the October Revolution of 1917, for those of you who actually give a shit, he brought communism to Russia, based off the works of Karl Marx and Marxism.

"Every man is born equal" that is one of the founding priciples and it is damn right.

Now, I am aware that during the Cold War, Communism was labeled as "evil" and "of Satan" and "immoral". Pfeh, I say. PFEH. Now, Josef Stalin warped Lenin's orginal idea to something of his own creation, I know. A totalarian state. But the founding ideals of Communism is something to behold. Something we should adopt. The problem with that is then it would take away the current voice that every Joe and Jane Nobody holds. Frankly, that might do the world some good. People need to have a voice in the way that their goverment is run, yes indeed, but not at the expense of the system itself. See, Communism may not work, but Socialism is the foundation of quite possibly the best political system that humans have come up with. Plain and simple. We should go back to Lenin's ideals and adopt that into our system.

Capitalism is all about money, and thinking about oneself. It's short sighted, greedy and fucking useless. Leninism is about the people. And quite fucking frankly, that's what the world needs right now. Of course, Early Communism also had another trait that I admire, Anti-religious establishment. While I am of the belief that people should be able to believe and worship what they want, read my lips people, the Church should have absolutely no influence on the affairs of the State. Religious figureheads should never, in any instance, be granted the same rights and freedoms as politicians. Now, I could go and say that all politicians should be Athiests or Agnostics, but I won't, that infringes too much on personal freedoms. However, that said, Religious propoganda should be forbidden and things relating to religion should be restricted, by law and force, to designated religious facilities. Simple. As. That.

There we go, I've solved the problems for the world, Adopt Leninism and form a world goverment, while at the same time, forbidding the practice of religion in anywhere other than places of worship. Not hard. Not overly simple, but not unachievable. Of course, the people with the money don't like that. So it won't happen. You know what I say to that?

FUCK. THAT.

It's time for a good ol' fashioned Coup d'etat. RISE UP PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. OVERTHROW YOUR GOVERMENTS. LOVE THE PEOPLE YOU ARE WITH. REJECT CORPORATIONS AND PROFIT. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND THOSE AROUND YOU AND IT IS POSSIBLE.

If movies have taught anyone anything at all, it's that ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. So it's time. RISE UP. The goverments fear attacks from outside, so they would never see one coming from inside. RISE UP AND AWAKEN THE EYES OF SOCIETY!

Humans and the space race

Okay, so people (mostly me) have been talking a lot lately about the future of space exploration and Terran society. With the world fracturing as it is, people are looking to the stars for plain survival. NASA has said that they want a trip back and have a base established by 2019 with a manned mars mission by the same date. Franky, I say that's not good enough. We could've been on mars by now. We could've been that far along. We had the tech and the drive to be on Mars by 1985. Instead, the US goverment decided that it would be best to pursue the Orbital Shuttle program *cough* idiots *cough*. Speaking of which, that program is due to be retired by the end of this year with, whadda ya know, no American replacement ready or even under construction. With the Russians due to take over resupply missions to the ISS. Now, I won't bash the importance of the International Space Station. It's a damn good project. But that said, it shouldn't be a PRIMARY concern. It should have been a thing that got built while we were planning for the trip to Mars. (I'll be giving my ideas for the Mars missions in a later post) And now, the Obama administration is poised to CUT the budget for the NASA Constellation project, which was to develop vehicles to take us to Luna and Mars. Frankly, the ONLY good thing the Bush administration did was to pour shitloads of cash into NASA's budget. And now Obama is saying "Well, we need the monies for the millitary, so NASA, you ain't getting anything" which annoys me, but more so, it confirms the thought that the first country to put a Terran on Mars will be either Russia or China (most likely China). I'm glad. Let someone else other than the US of A get there first. Might show the Americans that they are NOT in fact the greatest Country on Terra firma.

Now, I realize that we can't time travel (yet!) and complaining only goes so far. All I'm saying is that we need to look back to the stars and realize that we need to get back out there. We NEED to go out and colonize Luna and Mars, probably in that order. It will be a step forward for our society, and considering that over the past decade, we've taken about a dozen steps backwards, we NEED this. We NEED to get back into space. Not spend the money on a new missile that can smell it's target. Though that would be kinda cool.

This will probably be how it happens for the manned missions to Mars. China first. Russia second. ESA third. USA dead last. Obama, don't fuck this up for North America.

People need to get it in their minds that we are ALL of the same species. People need to start realizing that unless we start working together and working to better our species, we simply don't deserve to exist. If all we are going to do is point fingers and say "My god is better than your god even though both are exactly the same god, but we worship differently" and hate each other, exploit each other for meaningless profit and just look for new ways to kill each other, then I say, don't wait. LAUNCH THE NUKES!

So, simply. Get the act together. Learn to listen and understand. Learn that we are all the same, despite the small differences. And realize that space is the goal we should all work together. Learn that we must extend our reach to the stars.

MARS OR BUST!