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a hidden gem…

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s0niqu3
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So I have itunes on random, and I ran across a hidden gem of a song from the soundtrack to “JUNO”

Loose Lips by Kimya Dawson

Loose lips might sink ships but loose gooses take trips
To San Francisco, double Dutch disco,
Tech TV hottie, do it for scotty
Do it for the living and do it for the dead
Do it for the monsters under your bed
Do it for the teenagers and do it for your mom
Broken hearts hurt but they make us strong and

We won’t stop until somebody calls the cops
And even then we’ll start again and just pretend that
Nothing ever happened
We won’t stop until somebody calls the cops
And even then we’ll start again and just pretend that
Nothing ever happened

We’re just dancing, we’re just hugging,
Singing, screaming, kissing, tugging
On the sleeve of how it used to be
How’s it gonna be?
I’ll drop kick Russell Stover, move into the starting over house
And know Matt Rouse and Jest are watching me achieve my dreams

And we’ll pray, all damn day, every day,
That all this shit our President has got us in will go away
While we strive to figure out a way we can survive
These trying times without losing our minds

So if you wanna burn yourself
Remember that I love you
And if you wanna cut yourself
Remember that I love you
And if you wanna kill yourself
Remember that I love you
Call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead
Send me an IM, i’ll be your friend

Shysters live from scheme to scheme and my 4th quarter pipe dreams
Are seeming more and more worth fighting for
So I’ll curate some situations, make my job a big vacation
And I’ll say fuck Bush and fuck this war
My war paint is sharpie ink and I’ll show you how much my shit stinks
And ask you what you think because your thoughts and words are powerful
They think we’re disposable, well both my thumbs opposable
Are spelled out on a double word and triple letter score

We won’t stop until somebody calls the cops
And even then we’ll start again and just pretend that
Nothing ever happened
We won’t stop until somebody calls the cops
And even then we’ll start again and just pretend that
Nothing ever happened

We’re just dancing, we’re just hugging,
Singing, screaming, kissing, tugging
On the sleeve of how it used to be

a modern miracle…

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s0niqu3
on 20080604
in daily politics
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well said

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s0niqu3
on 20080514
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self awareness

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s0niqu3
on 20080504
in philosophy
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In the midst of a conversation yesterday, the topic of self-awareness arose with the claim that certain animals are self-aware, in the context of our conversation, to be more specific, chimps are supposedly self-aware.

For the past few days, I’ve been reading the book, “Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert, and in it he claims that Humans are the only animals that think about the future, and he makes a strong case in support of his point (which I’m not going to duplicate here) by differentiating between the concept he calls “nexting” whereby animals and machines alike can take present information, and match it with past information, to “predict” some immediate future information/event, (e.g. I smell X, the last time I smelled X something really bad happened, thus something bad is probably going to happen) and the concept of calculated predictions about the future value of the dollar, etc. The key here is that other animals and machines can do the former, but not the latter, which is unique to humans.

That all having been said, I fail to see how its possible to be “self aware” if you’re not able to place yourself in the world temporally. Isn’t the concept of self-awareness inextricably linked to the concept of time?

this is how I feel today, this is my baseline…

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s0niqu3
on 20080410
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Its hard to admit that I’m a failure, completely incapable of supporting myself, but I think that maybe its time.

I can hide as long as I want behind the argument that I simply don’t fit into the social contract world we live in today, and it may even be true, but that doesn’t change the fact that insofar as humanity is concerned, I am a failure.

Work. Breed. Die.

Maybe Jill is right… maybe its all just angst, not in an introvert or emo sense, but external, regarding the world as a whole, the utter meaninglessness of life and the sheer horror at the evil that humanity commits against itself and the world everyday, I suppose it would go well with my cynicism, and utter lack of faith in humanity.

Does it even matter?