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Sunday, December 26, 2004 One of the raddest feelings in the world: when you're having a crappy day and 3 of your best friends call you drunk from the other side of the prairies just to say hi and make you laugh your ass off for 45 min, even though you've been a shitty friend and hadn't even gotten around to writing them all a slacker-ass christmas email. posted by kim | 10:46 p.m.| (0) comments hah, apparently this blog is about alcohol. guess I won't deny it... in other exciting news, I found this site while looking for some info for work the other day. Yes, not only can bible thumpers learn about cultures they may not yet have infultrated, they need to be given hints about what to pray about to help these people. what, no jesus movie? we should pray. what, the bible hasn't been translated into thier language? I'll just ask God to make sure someone goes ahead and learns it so it gets translated asap. anyhow, I found it amusing, for all the wrong reasons of course. posted by kim | 8:51 p.m.| (0) comments Saturday, December 18, 2004 I'm waiting for snow. or rain. rain isn't something I'd complain about right now either. it's got nothing to do with christmas. it's just too dry. I've had a headache that won't go away. I drink gallons of water. gallons. every day. I'm itchy, and nivea, even when imported from Switzerland, is doing nothing for me. and it looks like crap outside. and my car's grey. not black. grey. no matter how often I wash it, the grey comes before I know it. come on rain. snow. whatever. preciptation in general. posted by kim | 6:09 p.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, December 08, 2004 I've been giving a lot of thought to the end of nation-states lately. How long can they really last? I mean, even Switzerland, one of the oldest apparently, has only been around 500 odd years (I know someone's going to correct me on this - I can't remember the exact year anymore, although 1394 comes to mind) and even then, the current borders of Switzerland have not been around that long. So really, its not as if the nation-state is the be all end all of society. What I've been thinking about, though, is where its going to go. I can't seem to decide if we're going to start getting smaller and smaller, splitting up into smaller, more homogeneous groups (see the former Yugoslavia) until we've basically become city-states, or will we have some globalised society with an overarching government like in Huxley's Brave New World without all the cloning and what not? I think the best bet is a combination of the two: something like a federation of loosely connected, largely autonomous city-states, with an overarching, possibly global seat of governance. And I don't know how I feel about this. Whatever.. this all began when I was flying to Victoria last weekend reading the National Post (courtesy of West Jet). I can't remember what I was reading about, but the idea of sovereignty came up. And I started thinking, will sovereignty even be an issue in a couple hundred years? When did the idea of a sovereign nation come into being (something tells me the British have something to do with it, although I'm sure it was earlier)? And isn't that what many regimes seem to be striving for increased interdependence (and therefore decreased sovereignty)? I really don't know where I'm going with this.. I should sleep. Or edit myself so this makes some sense to someone (including myself). Possibly tomorrow. Likely not. posted by kim | 11:56 p.m.| (0) comments |
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