psychofunky ramblings

Bush and the IOC - HOW Audacious??

2008-08-07T18:35:20+02:00

The raw, unadulterated, unmoderated, applause-ridden AUDACITY of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and George "W" Bush.

How dare, dare, dare, DARE Mr Bush show moralistic perspicacity by stating how every human is entitled to rights. Guan and tanemo anyone?

How DARE the IOC allow the Olympics to have been even chosen to be held in China in the first place. And now they KNOW that the human rights issues and pollution targets have NOT been resolved/met, and yet are still allowing the games to go ahead.

This supports the notion that we will place conditions on acceptance of things (in this case, the holding of the games) but if you don't comply....well...have them anyway.

Dare, dare, dare, dare, dare, DARE. How DARE you. And how dare YOU for supporting them, by tuning in.

Just DARE.

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The Environment, message for all.

2008-05-23T20:31:15+02:00

Get a grip.

Much love
Lee x

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Big Brother in the UK...EXCUSE ME???

2008-05-21T22:51:02+02:00

Anyone who makes that statement I feel has either not read 1984 by Eric Arthur Blair (the man you know as George Orwell) has understated the ideas or clearly not followed them properly.

Like many ideas, the image of Britain now living under authoritarian rule in a 'big brother' state is one of subjective experience. For example, someone who is a criminal, or is law-abiding and not been the victim of crime, are either trying to hide something, or feeling trapped, respectively

Now consider Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith was a hater of the idea that he was being spied on left, right and centre, and felt the government was being too oppressive. Then, one day, he had his car stolen. Distraught over the theft of the car and his precious work laptop with all his files on and the pictures of his daughter, he turned to the police (yes, the same police who he believed controlled the martial-law state he lived in). They surveyed the evidence, and found the thief and his car, and his car was promptly returned to him complete with all contents. "Oh my! Aren't these CCTV cameras wonderful!" he exclaimed, "I feel so much safer with them".

So safer and not oppressed anymore, Mr. Smith? Such diametrically opposed theories sound ludicrous to be thought of by the same person, yet, like many other examples one could make, experience (or lack of) forms opinion (as well as diatribe produced by many on Fleet Street).
Hate the nanny state? Whilst you must suffer the consequences, you can commit acts of burglary, theft and even murder – whereby in many cases you would only be caught after the act. Of course, I don’t want you to prove me right there, however if accepting that logic, one can see that if we truly were in a nanny state, you would be watched so closely that even your route to work in the morning would be recorded somewhere and considered suspicious (followed by a letter from your local council asking you to turn right at the end of your drive, not left like you did on Tuesday at 8.21am).

So, please, read 1984, and try to grasp the true ideas behind newspeak and double-talk, then if you can still come back to me with evidence that we definitely live in that world, I’m more than happy to entertain the idea.

Oh, and once read, you'll see that a few camera's in a house filled with air-heads at Elstree studios really doesn't deserve the title of Big Brother (as much as I adore Davina!)

Much Love
Lee x

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Emotionless anger

2008-05-18T16:40:57+02:00

I'm angry.

But I'm not.

I am, and I'm not.

A few years ago, I decided that anger got me places, but the wrong places, places I didn't like being. Anger got me to be someone who I am really not, and who I choose not to be anymore.

But today, I'm angry (but I'm not).

I have a friend; lets call him 'John'. He has some problems (like millions of others) that can be helped with counselling - either official or merely through effective support of his friends and/or family. He went to a doctor to try and get some help, to be prescribed anti-depressants.

This is where my anger lies. I'm angry because society has let 'John' down. I'm angry because my friend is open with wanting some help (demonstrated by visiting the Doctor), yet after reaching out for help, his fingers were bitten only to be shoved away with some magic beans that can apparently heal all. I'm angry because so many GP's either want a quick fix, can't be bothered or truly believe that tablets are the cure. I'm angry because they can't be bothered, don't want to or, in some cases to be fair, are not trained to look at other forms of therapy, such as effective counselling (not psychoanalysis, no Freud here please).

My friend has taken the courageous and logical approach to not allow himself to get addicted on them. I'm angry because some of the higher-level neuroleptics, such as Haldol, Xanax, Valium, Lithium, Prozac and Ritalin are prescribed to people of all ages and backgrounds. In fact, in 2006, Ritalin prescriptions alone had risen to over 400,000, for the UNDER 18's.

I'm angry that I feel like a society of one, trying to combat the multi-billion, multi-national, multi-faced organisations with views on how to treat people, yet call it "modern science" and call their products "wonder drugs". I'm angry because my friend needs help, not some chemically zombifying rubbish.

I HAVE done research in this field, so for those reading who are pro-drug, I understand that my view is not the only one, and I may be "wrong"! If I have sufficient logically debate that has me changing my mind, I have no ego to bruise in accepting a different view than the one I currently hold. Until then, I am of the medical and psychological view (I'm not going to even get into the debate of the medical model of psychology right now!) that anti-depressants are bad, and can sometimes cause more issues than they resolve (just Google or you tube "Anti-depressant survivors" or words to that effect, and listen to those who have been on drugs and found it a big fight to get off them).

So yes, I'm angry because my friend is in need of help, and no one will give it to him.

If you have appreciated or agreed with anything I've written, or are nodding your head at anything I've written, I'd have to ask - Ok, are you going to help him then, please?

Perhaps not...you can't help directly, but you can help by standing up if you believe what I do, and trying to fight the companies whose only interest is in making $ and is mutually exclusive to the will to help those in need.

So I'm angry.

Very angry.

But I'm not, because I'm very happy and very positive. Angry at society, but not angry as in emotions.

If that doesn't make sense, then talk to me, I'll explain it somehow

Much love,
Lee x

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