We as humans play games.

When we are bored we create these pockets of purpose in our lives to use our minds with.

What do games say about humans?

Are the games we play just meaningless time fillers or do they say something more about the human condition.

Games require us to think about something within a confined space. We assign rules to certain interactions so that they can have forced consequences. Sometimes the consequences are not what we thought they would be.

In games we find these unanswered questions.

We play.

With each new game we discover something new, about the game, about ourselves as players.

What would happen if….

Becomes the question and we have the ability to play out possibilities to run our thought process to a conclusion and then once the sum of all the thought that has gone into a game is completed the game is destroyed. You pick up the pieces and you play again. You have to get better somehow.

A new study has found that frequent pot use may in fact promote brain cell growth in the hippocampus. This should be great news for all potheads who have assumed they’ve been hurting their brains all these years, they’re actually getting smarter. How long is the government going to keep this natural smart drug illegal? Goddamn fascists. I’d get up and do something about it if I wasn’t so stoned.

1) Believe truth!
2) Avoid error!
3) Suspend disbelief!
4) Don’t blink!
5) Transcend subjectivity!

I have always disagreed with the Straight Edge philosophy. I’ve thought about it, and I can understand why they believe it. It makes sense in a way, be unfettered, don’t have your mind clouded with chemicals. And it is true that drugs can have detrimental effects in people’s lives. However I don’t believe that is a reason to avoid them completely.

Drugs are a part of this reality. They grow upon this earth, and when you ingest them they don’t kill you, they give you ideas. (Here I’m talking about “natural” drugs such as marijuana, shrooms, or DMT). I don’t believe that people should simply ignore something that is naturally a part of life on this planet as if it’s the devil. Why close yourself off to new experiences? Because they are harmful? It seems to me that the harmful use of drugs are the exception and not the rule, and that the harm comes from irresponsible or excessive use. Drugs certainly aren’t intrinsically harmful. And when are SXE people going to realize that everything they put into their bodies contains chemicals that alter their minds? Oh they’ll eat portobello mushrooms but not psilocybin mushrooms. Well what’s the difference between them? Both were created by natural evolution (or intelligent design, or both), both can be found growing in the wild, and animals eat both of them. Well the government designated one of them as an illegal substance, so naturally those SXE counterculture rebels wont touch them. Fight the power noobs!

The worst part about SXE is it seems to go hand in hand with open-minded liberal theory, but they’re so closed-minded. Everyone they disagree with is just wrong, or a fascist. And to them, people who do drugs are idiots with nothing worthwhile to say. I’ll bet SXE people take plenty of prescription drugs though (to me that seems a tad hypocritical). Where does one draw the line between a “good” drug and a “bad” drug?

I don’t want this to sound too much like an angry rant, so let me just say that I have met plenty of good natured intelligent straight edge people. But I’ve also met a lot who are just completely insane assholes. It is the latter type I am deriding, although I do disagree with the philosophy in general. If anyone disagrees with something I’ve said here, I invite you to leave a comment. I always welcome a good discussion.

I’m done with copyrights. I know, artists need to be compensated for their works yadda yadda yadda, but that’s not even what it’s about anymore. For one thing, they last like 120 years. That’s unfairly long, by then the content creator will most definitely be dead for a long time. Whatever happened to public domain?

As we move into the digital age copyrights will inevitably die. With faster internet connections and bigger hard drives it’s only going to get easier to share information. Total sharing of information is the way of the future and copyrights are holding us back. It’s time that humanity starts focusing on greater objectives than writing a hit song and making a lot of money. The free flow of information is beneficial to all and it’s going to happen not matter how much copyright holders bitch and moan.

Will this new era usher in a change of the status quo? Of course it will, but that’s not a bad thing. Money is a meaningless symbol that confuses the fuck out of people. It puts artificial value on things. It misdirects people away from their true value. The owning of information is an antiquated idea, we should have left it in the 20th century where it belongs. This in the century of free information, of expanding horizons. Technology and the human desire to not pay for things will force it upon us weather we like it or not.

Oh, and don’t republish this article lest I sue your ass! I needs me some monies, the Professor has needs!