so I know everyone's posts lately have been about this but I'm gonna say it anyway so nyeh. I did watch the inauguration on Tuesday. It was amazing. The attendance estimate at the last inauguration was about 300,000. Estimated attendance at this one, 2 million. And that's just the people that stood in the freezing cold, that's not counting all the people who watched from their tv or their computers at home. Wow. Republican are already giving Obama a bunch of shit saying he's not going to be able to do it because he's so young. I personally don't know how old he is but the amazing mass of support shows that this country, despite it's hicks, is ready for a change, and is finally welcoming that change. Finally. This is like the abusive relationship, your significant other treats you like shit and you stay because you think it's right. Everyone tells you it's wrong, the signs tell you it's wrong, but you stay. And finally one day, after eight years of this relationship getting worse and worse, you leave and find a new love, and they treat you well, and even though you haven't been around long enough to really notice the change, yet, you're happy. You're happy and you're excited for the future. And that's America. We just found a new love, and we're already infatuated because we know we'll be head over heels. And it's going to take a while to build the structure back up that the other relationship has destroyed. But this new love is willing to do it and the time will be well worth the effort.
I also laughed that in his speech he said something along the lines of that this country has fallen into disrepair because of selfishness and greed on the part of some. Like that's not a blatant call out of Bush? "Oh here I am to take your job, by the way.. YOU SUCK." I didn't disagree, don't get me wrong, but I did laugh.
On another topic, in my Renaissance Humanities class we were studying the Bubonic Plague. I know I am a horrible person for thinking this but wait until I finish my spiel before you start passing judgment. 60% of the population died in those years of the bubonic plague. Sixty percent. That means look around you, if you're still alive, two out of every three of your friends is dead. Now this is horrible, yes? Yes I agree it was horrible. HOWEVER. Imagine, if you will, how overpopulated we would be if we had 60% more of the population breeding. See how overcrowded we are? Now double it and then some. Every generation there is some sort of crowd control. You've got the bubonic plague, you've got small pox. Ebola tried to do it in the 70's but now we're such germaphobes (with reason) that we fought it off, quarantined those who were already diseased, and burned those who were already dead. I don't believe in a god, per say, however I do believe that the world does what it thinks is best for it. In a rat colony, if there is overpopulation (not enough space, not enough food), the mother rat will consume her own children to keep population down. I think the world does the same. When we become so overpopulated it's effecting both the world and ourselves for the negative, the world sends out a virus (or something along those lines) to thin out the population. We're trained from the get-go to not kill those of our own kind, and we cannot stop breeding apparently, so the earth has to step in and make the decisions for us. The only problem is now we've gotten smarter. We have better ways to fight viruses and diseases. We no longer live with the rats and fleas, we have waste management systems for all kinds of disease bearing waste. When someone has a highly infectious disease, they are quarantined until the get better, or, sometimes unavoidably, die. They are not mourned in close proximity, infecting their loved ones. We're kept in a sterile bubble. And we always are. How many people in the world do you think regularly carry around hand sanitizer? Probably every soccer mom in America, and every germaphobe as well. This means two things. 1) We are no longer being exposed to as many germs to get us sick and thus, thin out the population, and 2) because of that, our immune systems are not as high, because they're not fighting things constantly. Its like a strong man. He's gonna be strong, and he could be the strongest guy in the world, but he's gonna get flabby and weak if he doesn't go to the gym. So now our immune systems are weak so what happens when an outbreak does occur that we can't contain? We're getting smarter, yes, but in that we're also getting weaker.
Really it's only a matter of time until the zombies come eat us anyway.
Or we eat each other, the way overpopulation is going.
Okay so that was a totally random rant, excuse me. It's just been on my mind.