awesome show on bbc last night

not sure what it was called but it was this dude going through papua new guinea integrating himself into various tribes. the tribe the show focused around was cannibalistic and so at first you're like holy shit then after a while of watching it you're like holy shit thats so COOL. not the eating humans part but how they live. hunter gatherers are very different from farmers and while both populate the "non-globalized" (i.e. "underdeveloped") world we tend to not distinguish the two. although it takes so long for them to knock down a tree! like an hour son! fuck that. and they eat the stuff inside, apparently tastes like artichoke heart. but they dont have to do any planting and so on so it actually ends up being relatively time efficient and they get to chill and smoke all day (who said western culture was the apex of civilization?)

so blog of the day goes to *drumroll...* lina tetelbaum. of course that does mean a little less today than it did back in the golden age of blogs when we had the globetrotter squad in the heezy. amalia? luci? we're looking at over a month here. susie bailed. bruce's picture is adjacent to the word 'rubbish' in the dictionary. padula oblongata joins him on the following page for a cameo next to 'slag'. the world is in a sad state.

Tom has been lying in the bed ofr a little bit and then he found that he had very, very bad wind and unfortunaltey the whole of the upstairs of 8D Clarence Av now smells of shitty farts. There may even be bits of follow through in the bed? But noone is quite sure.... so if Pauls starts smelling of shit you knjow who to blame

that very important message brought to you by mr. ketteley of essex. right. so that seriously was the foulest smell i've smelt in a long long time. at least since west africa 2 summers ago and let me tell you there was some pretty nasty smelling stuff....

so of course at 19 i'm at a crisis of what to do with my life but then of course my life is worthless so who really cares, lets just think about philosophical stuff thats more fun OK so why dont we bail on capitalism? because its the price of entry to society which we've been conditioned to need. no conspiracy, no inevitable human nature bullshit. simply the result of geography and one guy stepping on another guy's toe about 8000 years ago and ever since there's been beef. and all thats gone wrong in the world today is an extrapolation of that beef. hardcorely so. like very minced into little molecules and quarks and ittier things than that until we do the whole big BANG thing again and blamo back to no more humans, no more beef (quite literally) and no more wasted egos converging with other wasted egos at random intervals. who really knows a piss about human nature anyway? beyond what you or i would like to think human nature is because it paints a rosy picture for the future, or gives us an excuse to piss on others, no one knows because all this stepping on toes bullshit extrapolation has become so entrenched in our upbringing that an objective 'nature' cannot be had and if it ever could then we could never talk to this totally objective organic natural human because he or she would not have any social skills at all. no mommy. no dada.

whoa i have a straight clear view of the moon from where i am sitting right this very second. it looks like some huge giant just fell down on it with his arms stretched out. maybe the giant is that iron dude from the movie.

so why bother studying people if we're just going to burn up in a short few moments anyway? shouldnt we concentrate on more important stuff like building star destroyers and not this pithy deficit and consumer confidence and disease and so on? its not going to matter in like half a second of the life of a rock anyway (susie: rock movie from the short films we saw in DC).

even at the pinnacle of success you're still trivial. look at a picture of the world from space. even if you do every single thing you could ever want to do the picture would look the damn same. unless you were a dick and became president and blew up china. but short of that, you wouldnt do SHIT. and thats doing everything you've ever want to do! how shitty!

to bring to a conclusion: we're going to abandon discussion of humans as it is futile and they are doomed anyway. #2. we're going to use one or two of them to obtain indestructible atom-thin suits of alien material that will allow us to travel anywhere we want at any speed, including wormholes. #3. we're going to have a universal arm wrestling championship to see if we can beat the shit out of amoeba-sized mofo's. damn them.

back to that essay on material influences of foreign policy.

love,
paul