Ideas for a New World

Ever hear the old saying “You can’t judge a book by it’s cover”?

Usually this saying is applied to people. Generally the saying is true. But I think more then anything, the real message behind the saying is not “don’t prejudge people” but instead “take the time to get to know them after you’ve prejudged them”.

We all judge people. It’s human nature. First impressions are key indicators in a whole range of situations, whether it be a job interview or a first date.

I like to add to this saying “… but you can get a pretty good idea what it’s about.”

The reality is you can tell a lot about a person from their exterior. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, the way they talk, the things they do, the way their body is shaped, their hair style and so on.
We try to tell ourselves that inner beauty is the most important thing. But inner beauty is a relative thing. Just like qualities such as “nice” or “mean” are pretty relative at best. I could say “he’s fat but he’s a nice guy”. Well what’s nice to me might not be nice to you. For all I know you could have a personality clash with him. Just like you could think he’s mean and I think he’s sarcastic and funny. However neither of use can disagree that he’s fat. That in itself shows a certain insight into his personality and how well he takes care of himself, what his diet might be like and how often he works out. These are visual indicators of certain aspects of his personality. It’s perfectly fine for us to judge him on that aspect of his personality. What’s not ok is to judge him as a whole on just that one single aspect.

Let me give you an example. I’m not a big fan of tattoos. When I see someone with tattoos I judge them. I know right off the bat that their sense of style is different then my own. The more tattoos they have, the further their sense of style is from my own. I like things clean and simple. Now does this mean they are bad people or that I’m not going to enjoy their company and conversation? Not at all. But will I go out of my way to try and meet them? Probably not. The important thing is that if I’m in a situation to meet them, I don’t go out of my way to let my prejudice stand in the way of getting to know them better.

While I can’t judge a book by it’s cover, it has to grab my attention to even give it a chance. It’s one thing to just not take interest because what you see doesn’t interest you, it’s another thing to let that initial judgment take precedence over everything.

Now there are people who will do the reverse and go out of their way to meet people who they might otherwise feel they would clash with. Nothing wrong with that. But those same people have to understand that if the rest of us don’t do like they do, it’s not because we aren’t open. It’s more because we’ve spent some time on this earth and have tuned ourselves to understand that generally our stereotypes are true. Stereotypes do exist for a reason. They are based on common observations over time. The important thing is, once again, not to let our stereotypes stop us from diving deeper. As well as certainly not to use those stereotypes as a means for hate.

The one thing that’s great about humanity is our capacity for change. We are capable of adapting our perspectives over time based on new information. It’s when we stop ourselves from adapting, that’s when the real danger sets in.

Lets talk about bisexuality. I think there is a certain level of distaste for bisexuality even as acceptance of “gays” becomes more mainstream in pop culture. Bi-sexuals are grossly misunderstood by society as a whole so I would like to try and clear up some of the misunderstanding.

First: What is a Bi-Sexual?
– A bi-sexual is a person (male or female) that finds both the opposite and the same sex attractive to the point that they would be willing to engage in sexual activity with either gender.
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I’ve had this blog for a long time now and its focus originally was to be about new thoughts or ideas I was having. However over the years it hasn’t been used very much. There have been some years where I only had one or two entries. I’m tired of seeing this site sit here barely used. One of the reasons it has been so sparse is because most of my thoughts ended up being posted in my Livejournal instead, where I had a small captive audience for a number of years. Well, I pretty much stopped using my livejournal at the beginning of 2008 for various reasons and took a good six months off of blogging anything. Now I decided I want to get back into it, but rather then return to my livejournal, I want to focus on this site as my personal website. A place for me as a whole and not just my ideas, but all my thoughts and emotions.

That said, about six months to a year ago I took a vow not to get too personal on the internet anymore. Which translates to “don’t talk shit about anyone online anymore, journal or not, if someone else can read it, don’t write it”. But I went a little too far and scared myself away from writing about anything personal. So I decided I would start again, this time without getting too in depth about things and just talking about feelings in general. I started a new category on this website called “personal” and I’m going to fill it with entries about my feelings and life situations.

So here I am. Roxics.com reborn.

I was going to reply to a person who left a comment on my last entry entitled Cult of Mac, but then I realized I had more to say so I decided to just write a new entry altogether. The comment left by the poster named “Nick” was as follows:

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Just so you know we are in good company…

A list of famous mac users.
copied from: http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/greenacres/macusers.htm

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Function13 has just updated about the New Nine Inch Nails album (Ghosts). This fellow is one of the twenty-five hundred who will help buy Trent a new house this year. If you do the math $300 x 2500 = $750,000. Not a bad haul for a limited edition. Of course what the real profit is… that’s another story. Least it’s going to a great band.

I myself went for the $10 2xCD special.

So it appears my 4gig iPhone I purchased for $299 after the price drop is one of many that have bad LCD screens. Great.

I’m going to take it to the Apple store and see what they can do for me.

I took this photo a little while ago. Just something ironic about it. Though I certainly feel bad for whoever owned it. But as I understand it the house has now been torn down.

Lets get a little political for a moment. I’m not a supporter of the George W. Bush administration. I feel that as a result of his presidency we entered into a sort of dark ages in this country. During most of this presidency we’ve been at war, we’ve been attacked at home to an extent not seen since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor back in World War 2, and US citizens have lived in fear of terrorism because it’s how our government told us to act. Fear is a method of control. You can see it in our movies, hear it in our music and watch it every day on our news. We’ve been consumed by this.

But I’m hopeful. To look on the positive side of things it has given us something to aspire to, a better peaceful tomorrow. It has given us material to talk, write songs and shoot films about for years. It is the bad that must come every so often in order for the good to look better. The contrast. Lets just hope the end of this presidency brings a brighter future for this country.
And while it’s true America must get it’s hands dirty in the mud every so often in order to maintain it’s stance, these last seven years were more like blatantly shitting on our own hands and smearing it around in some retarded defiance of ourselves. When its all over is there any way we can just pretend we were drunk for the last eight years and forget about it? Somehow I don’t think so. But still, lets look at the bright side, it’s the only way to overcome the darkness.

Last night I had a dream of a grand parade. There were sand colored roman columns nearly six stories tall that lined a mall that was easily a half a mile long. Think of the visuals from the film “300″ because that’s what this dream was like, probably inspired by seeing a trailer for the film earlier in the day.

At one point I was riding on a chariot being pulled by an elaborately decorated elephant. The guy holding the reins had a bald head that was covered in a tattoo. Face and all. The blue ink of the tattoo however was somehow controlled by him. He was able to make it fade in and out and control the design on his head. As he waved to the thousands of parade watchers we passed by he would make his ink swirl around and create strange designs, even simulating hair and a beard at one point. Then he did the most amazing thing, he made his entire head disappear. Thinking about the logic of this after I had awoken from the dream, it occurred to me that perhaps the ink was also some type of light receptor, like a camera lens. What it saw on one side it could display on the other and vice versa in a 360 degree manner so as to make it appear his head was missing when in fact it was an illusion created by his tattoo ink.
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