Orbis non sufficit
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Strange World
Tis strange to think that while we sit here on our computers, thinking about work or school or whatever, that there are assorted people in various parts of the world shooting at each other for assorted complex (and some not so complex) reasons. You know that it's happening all the time, but somehow it doesn't seem very real, no matter how many movies you see. Reading descriptions of actual scenarios that have taken place in the recent past has made it somewhat more real for me, makes you realise how different things are in other parts of the world. I mean, these days it's easy to feel like the entire world is getting all modernised and commercialised and having all its moral values screwed up by TV and magazines and that one of the most common problems faced by people is dealing with middle-class mediocrity, but there are many places in the world where none of that exists. What's a little confusing is that sometimes I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
There needs to be a happy medium somewhere. Somewhere where our spirits are not constantly assaulted by the stupidities of modern living (yet we retain the conviniences and other things we like) but where we are also not getting shot at or our homes blown up because of racial/political/craziness or because people are so poor that they need to kill us for our food, or that we just simply starve because we have no food either. Asking too much?
Maybe that's part of why I'm trying to join the reserves, I think I'd like to see some of the fucked up-edness of the world for myself. Too bad that that can be dangerous. Meh, they wouldn't send me anywhere for a long time anyway.
Oh, I have been declared medically fit btw, means that I got my waive for being slightly more blind than they'd like and they'll let me join anyway, if I can pass the next part of my assessment. 29th of April I think it is, hopefully I'll be ready. I have to go have a blood test done before that though, to make sure I don't have HIV or HepB or any shit like that. Can't have your soldiers infecting each other and the medics when they go bleeding everywhere.
Tis strange to think that while we sit here on our computers, thinking about work or school or whatever, that there are assorted people in various parts of the world shooting at each other for assorted complex (and some not so complex) reasons. You know that it's happening all the time, but somehow it doesn't seem very real, no matter how many movies you see. Reading descriptions of actual scenarios that have taken place in the recent past has made it somewhat more real for me, makes you realise how different things are in other parts of the world. I mean, these days it's easy to feel like the entire world is getting all modernised and commercialised and having all its moral values screwed up by TV and magazines and that one of the most common problems faced by people is dealing with middle-class mediocrity, but there are many places in the world where none of that exists. What's a little confusing is that sometimes I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
There needs to be a happy medium somewhere. Somewhere where our spirits are not constantly assaulted by the stupidities of modern living (yet we retain the conviniences and other things we like) but where we are also not getting shot at or our homes blown up because of racial/political/craziness or because people are so poor that they need to kill us for our food, or that we just simply starve because we have no food either. Asking too much?
Maybe that's part of why I'm trying to join the reserves, I think I'd like to see some of the fucked up-edness of the world for myself. Too bad that that can be dangerous. Meh, they wouldn't send me anywhere for a long time anyway.
Oh, I have been declared medically fit btw, means that I got my waive for being slightly more blind than they'd like and they'll let me join anyway, if I can pass the next part of my assessment. 29th of April I think it is, hopefully I'll be ready. I have to go have a blood test done before that though, to make sure I don't have HIV or HepB or any shit like that. Can't have your soldiers infecting each other and the medics when they go bleeding everywhere.
Comments:
Good job on the test (Y). YEah dont think there is much of a happy medium, sorta devided between eastern and western worlds. I would like to travel to see the wars and shit go on. Be a bit of a reality shock.
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