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I am haunted.

I am haunted I am haunted I am haunted.

I find it strange when people see James Dean as this all American, yeehaa rock'n'roll kind of cowboy character. He was 5'6", queer and a bit of a cuckoo. To me, that's the point. People always miss the oh-so-enjoyable points.

Finland my country the home of the free, such miserable weather.

Sometimes it's very difficult to stand this world. There's people everywhere, and everybody's less intelligent than me. There's no reason to be proud of this, because it's not my fault. It doesn't make me happy, it makes me distressed and crazy.

Being unintelligent and proud of it is a great way to social success. The people who don't really spend much time thinking of anything or reading anything often rule the social circles of schools. They are the kings and queens.

The blessing of our times is that if you just want to, you can go through life without ever thinking one single independent thought. The curse of our times is that because of this, people go through life without ever thinking one single independent thought.

Oh crap, I'm starting to sound like Oscar Wilde.

Woskar Ilde

I don't respect people (only) for their intelligence, more than anything I respect them for their goodness and bravery. Stupid people can be deeply good and wonderful. But this occurs too rarely. This applies to intelligent people just as well.

I love the people that I've created. They are great. So far the person I enjoy the most is Jeremy Witt. I haven't written anything about him for months, but I'd like to. I guess he's a bit like a dildo: always entertaining. (I don't have a dildo, though. If I did, I wouldn't know what to do with it. But I guess I know what to do with Jeremy Witt. That's a stupid name. I have to change it.)

If I got to go anywhere on holiday, I'd go to North Korea. I'd like to experience that kind of dystopia; I'm fed up with the dystopia I already live in. I can't believe that the place actually exists.

Dogs are like people but without all the ugly stuff.

Our dog has some sort of ulcer on her back. My dad has been treating her with some sort of lotion. Now she's constantly watching her step so that Dad wouldn't catch her and put lotion on her back. She's irrationally scared. She looks for safety and hides under my arm when I sit on the couch. The lotion itself clearly doesn't hurt her at all. She just doesn't like being touched in that way.

It is heartbreaking in a way. It makes me think how she would cope if she was a pig on a factory farm. Pigs on factory farms must be just as silly and sensitive as she is. I can't stand the idea of pigs on factory farms. I can't stand it. The image is stuck in my head, as you can see, as this blog is the inside of my head.

The inability to reason does not reduce suffering at all. If anything, it makes it worse: you can't rationalize the fear away.

I believe that intelligence increases suffering only if you cross the line that I've crossed. If you're somewhere in between, smarter than a pig but not as smart as me, you'll probably be fine.

I wanna be cool, I wanna

Jonathan Safran Foer on Anthony Bourdain:

“We were backstage in the green room and he was saying factory farming is the worst blight in America right now.

In fact, I'd say he agreed with everything in my book.

Then we get on the show and he says he thinks humans are designed to eat stupid little animals. Now, that annoys me. I find that disappointing — that his shtick is much more important to him than what he knows to be right.”

Wow! What an insecure brat. I'm an insecure brat too, but at least I'm doing my best to help the ones that get stomped on.

The man's nearly 60 years old, and he's still pretending. If you have goodness in your soul, don't hide it just because you're afraid you will look less cool in the eyes of morons. Those eyes don't matter.

Politically correct.

Morrissey has compared meat-eating to pedophilia.

Jesus Christ, sometimes I wonder what's going through his head when he makes these statements. He's like PETA: often immensely harmful to the cause.

Factually it may make sense to compare the meat industry to the Holocaust, but this does not matter. If you want to actually help the animals, you have to think before you speak. People are not rational beings, they are emotional beings. They don't necessarily care about the facts. They get offended very easily, and even more than that, they love to pretend to get offended. Be wise.

I personally enjoy Morrissey's radical statements on whatever subject. I think that his opinions and especially his arguments are often quite adolescent and more than slightly crazy, but to me that's just part of the fun. People who get Morrissey usually get that he's a joke to be taken seriously, but still essentially a very good joke.

But I realize that other people are not like me.

Morrissey, I love you, but please, if you want to do all you can to help the animals, you have to slow down and stop spitting everybody in the face. You'll receive this message when I'm famous.

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Btw: Isn't it true that when somebody says that they don't want to please 'politically correct' people, it simply means that they are about to say something that they know is unnecessarily hateful and cruel? And isn't it true that these same people become politically correct THE MOMENT somebody says something that offends THEM?

Jesus fucking Christ, adults are so childish! That realization is probably one of the main reasons why I'm such a depressed wreck.

I should take new pictures of myself. The most recent pictures of me were taken a small eternity ago. I still look heartbreakingly cute, but not as cute as I used to.

So much to do...

So much to do.

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Then, an important, yellow message:

In vitro meat is the only thing that can save the animals, our species and the world. It is the only way out of this. Everybody is never going to go vegan; even if that happened, it would take centuries, and we don't have that much time. If we seize this opportunity, in vitro meat will practically be the biggest moral revolution in the history of mankind. It has the potential to change everything. Let's seize it.

Random thoughts, random thoughts, random thoughts

If there's a group of people that really annoys me, it's this: people who have an identity of a smart, funny person but aren't smart or funny. People who are constantly making jokes and expressing their ideas in a loud voice, but don't really show any significant intelligence or make anybody laugh. Unfortunately, the Internet gives a platform to these people. YouTube is full of AmazingAtheist type of simpletons. I mean argh, would somebody just tell them to shut up.

The morons should learn to shut up and listen, and the intelligent people should learn to believe in themselves and speak up. Wisdom is a dangerous thing, because it fills you with doubts.



By the way: I'd forgotten that Spirited Away is my favourite movie. And now I saw it again after... I don't know, 9 years? ...and yes, it is one of my favourite movies. Spirited Away has a soul, and that soul is deeply beautiful, wise, kind, holy.

Also: I think that what makes Little Britain funny is that Matt Lucas and David Walliams actually have rather beautiful souls. People with ugly souls are usually not good at being funny.

(These are all just thoughts that my brain has come up with during my non-blogging days. Now I'm vomiting them out. I'm sorry.)

Also: finally I've found a young writer who's actually got something to say.

Poet Yahya Hassan, Denmark, b. 1995.

 

He's saying what he thinks. Yay!

And people are listening to him. Yay!

I am a proud faggot

I'm busy writing about certain topics.

Then there are topics that I should write about, but haven't.

One of those topics is sexism. Now I say something about it, so that from now on, all my 10 million invisible readers will know where I stand.

So. Let's get this out of the way.

Okay. It seems to me that the idea of what it means to be a proper man / a proper woman is one of the main problems in the world at the moment. In many cases, it's the underlying problem that's generating the other problems.

It is a well proven fact that most kids that get bullied are bullied because they don't fit the traditional gender roles in one way or another. Kids in our society react violently when they see somebody that doesn't reflect their idea of the Right Kind of Boy or the Right Kind of Girl. And when these kids grow up, they remain the same way: bullies and fearful morons.

So does the world need feminism?

Yes. Knowing what I know, it would be intellectually dishonest to say no.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself a feminist, though. Not because there's something wrong with being a feminist, but because when people hear the word, they start acting irrationally. (Perhaps we need a new word?)

Feminism is not fashionable. Actually most people, including girls, seem to compete in who can shout I'M NOT A FEMINIST the loudest. I don't know why, but the actual meaning of feminism has blurred somewhere along the line. People's reaction to the mere word is hysteria; a lot of people seem to see feminism as some sort of conspiracy that's trying to destroy everything that they grew up with.

Because everybody knows that


Where does all this fear come from? Feminism, the way I see it, is just common sense. It's about seeing social injustice, and trying to fix it. Of course that's a good thing.

To me, feminism is something that sees the underlying mechanisms of society. Without somebody trying to find out how these things work and show the findings to the rest of us, I would be blind to how differently people are treated solely because of their physical sex. Even the treatment of little babies is usually based on their assumed sex, which is ridiculous; from day one, people are looked at as genders instead of individuals.

The way girls and boys are raised is pretty violent. Girls are still taught to stay quiet and look pretty; even if there's nobody saying it out loud, this is the general culture. Girls believe that their value depends on the way they look. They tend to believe that boys know better than them. They tend to think that their opinions are less important than those of boys.

 

What's even more destructive is the way boys are raised. There is a reason why so many young men think that the only way to be respected is to be an asshole. (I mean... look at the Internet.) Compassion and humanity are bad things. Idiocy is cool. Boys are told to be Men instead of full human beings; things like kindness or any form of deeper intelligence are often seen as 'feminine'. (Actually, pretty much anything can suddenly be seen as 'too feminine'.) And because, for some inexplicable reason, 'feminine' is a bad, bad thing, many young men are constantly and hysterically controlling everything that they do. Can I say this? Can I sit like this? Can I like what I like?

Because there's always the danger that you make a mistake, and when you make a mistake, your equally hysterical bros come and let you know that you're a 'faggot'.

A faggot means a male person who has expressed human emotion, intellect, kindness, passion or artistic talent. Of course, these are all bad things.

I believe that most problems in the world have something to do with this: that males think that being a violent dick is a part of what it is to be a True Man, and females think that what they have to say doesn't matter. To become successful, women often try to become more like men, when in fact, what the world needs more than anything right now are values that are now considered 'feminine'. In order to progress into something better and less destructive, our societies have to start appreciating things like empathy, patience, kindness and collaboration.

The true revolution is probably when boys stop being so afraid of being labeled faggots, and find courage to be themselves instead. And that won't happen until society stops seeing 'feminine' as a negative.




All in all, things like masculinity, femininity and sports are good jokes that stop being funny the moment people start taking them seriously. These are jokes, people, they are nothing real, stop treating them as matters of life and death.

Besides, traditional masculinity is boring.

Traditional femininity is boring.

Boring sucks. Don't you think?