The Hare and the Rabbit

Okay, so it has nearly been a whole month since I last posted.

The short update is that my contract at Transport finally finished last week, I have enough money to probably get me through to March, and I expect the possibility of contracts on the market about February - but nothing is definite. I have never been so stressed about money before, but I will probably scrape through as I always do somehow. I am becoming more distant from my family, not just my father's side, but my mother and sister and her kids. I am pretty firmly convinced that I should not have come back from Singapore; I should have taken one of those jobs at one third of what I get in Australia and ridden the crisis through there. And I am also firmly of the opinion that my life has turned out so far to be one big empty waste.

Does that cover it?

It's Xmas. The 'X' stands for 'Christ' for the ignorant, that's why 'Xian' = 'Christian'. It is the christian hijacking of the Northern European Winter Solstice festival. I hate this time of year; not just that I hate the weather and the crowds and the social compulsion to shop, but I hate the false, shallow, and hollow 'religion' of it all. It makes me puke.

A friend and I were talking about Battlestar Galactica the other day. I have had to watch the whole of the previous series in a couple of sittings 'cos another friend wants to watch the last series with me. Anyhow, we were comparing the Cylons and Colonists to things; I noted how the polytheist humans versus the monotheist mechanoids was comparable to the evil christians persecuting the natural faiths of this world. My friend compared the Cylons with Americans (as in citizens of the USA, not the rest of the Americas) and the humans with the rest of Earth being destroyed by everything American. (Maybe I should put that lower case, like I do with the accursed religion?)

It cast the show in a different light. Are Americans capable of such conceptualisation? Of seeing their own corruption and portraying it, even parodying it, in a TV series? But recently I have gone off almost everything American on TV. It started with the putridness of the 'United States of Earth' of Futurama and the 'United States of Space' of Star Trek, and then boiled over into a re-ignition of vile at the Simpsons and South Park, but then Family Guy and American Dad for exactly the same reasons.

I want to watch animation and science fiction so much, but I am so sick of how Americans cannot make anything that does not force feed their own social paradigms down everybody else's throats. But it now even extends to the National Geographic and Discovery channels and their constant presentation of Xian crap disguised as 'history'. It makes me puke so much.

Gods, I want to live in a world without Americans or Xians so much!