well this is my karma post

Mao Zedong was directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of 80 million people. Stalin personally signed death orders for over a million people.
Hitler killed 6,000,000 jews by the way

 

Well, i didn't take history! Hmm, i'm wondering how I'm supposed to stop their mum's getting pregnant... Am I suppose to perform a hysterectomy whilst they sleep? Force feed them the pill?

 

Kick their Dad in the crotch really hard

 

Hahaha, any excuse to wear doc martens!

 

Indeed.. or my vegan biker boots

 

Not sure my crocs would do much though! Next best thing to barefooting and comfier!

 

Whats your favourite shop?

 

Any hippie type shop really, gift in letchworth is quite good, or the hippie stall on the market in stevoland. I like charity shops too!

 

Where (if you had to work in a "conventional" place) would be your ideal place to work?

 

I don't suppose working for greenpeace counts... Uhhh, probably selling things in a travelling market. I've never thought of that until this moment, weird how thinsg amke you think. As it turns out, whatever I do will probably involve geography.

 

Ah, but what would you sell?
And I suppose Greenpeace would count.. I certainly wouldn't mind working for them, blockading the nuclear waste transport ships etc.

 

Wow, exactly the line of work I'd want!!! I'd sell wholefoody stuff and hats I crochet and stuff like that. I've got a stall at a craft fair in 2 months (Well, since I'm helping to organise the thing, I'd better do!), I'm planning on doing hair wraps and selling my painted glasses.

 

Hmm, apologies for bringing the discussion down to trivialities, but:
Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin?
Dave Brubeck or John Coltrane? (won't hold it against ya if you ain't heard either of 'em )

 

Probably Floyd, I was bought up on it, though I also quite like led Zeppelin. In fact, I have some Pink Floyd LPs in my inherited collection! My parenst had nowhere to put their records, so they gave me them and the record player. I am a proud owner of a selection of 70/80s rock (Dad), 8os pop (mum) and some motown stuff.

Had a quick google of the other two, going to go with John coltrane cos I prefer saxophones to piano. For some reason there was some kind of mutual hate of jazz in this household as I was growing up.

 

Ah.. there was a general indifference to jazz in my house
Apart from "turn off that depressing shite!" when I put the blues on, haha.
John Coltrane tends to the slightly more dissonant, "new jazz" style - Dave Brubeck is more of a trad-jazz pianist, although he has a saxophonist in The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

 

I'll have to check them out. BThank goodness for MP3 players in this house! I'm into all my 'old' music, my sister Luiza is into emo stuff (she is the most conventional person you could ever meet) and my littlest sister Saskia is into very crap pop music and bratz songs! It would be a battle of the stereos if MP3s didn't exist, and I don't need 'Paramore' 20 times over!

 

Haha, if it weren't for headphones, eveyone in my house would've tired of all my music fairly quickly.. we only share a couple of bands in common, mostly 60s and 70s rock like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Grand Funk Railroad etc.
The rest is my province alone - Infected Mushroom, A Silver Mount Zion, Godspeed You! Black emperor (the lines in my sig is from one of their songs), Grateful Dead, The Collectors etc etc etc.. I could list bands all night

 

Hmm, let's get some more question going:
- Do you do your best work at night or in the daytime?
- Describe an ideal day (gonna throw that one back atcha)
- What political issues matter the most to you? I.e. which would be the most important in an elected leader?
- Does the current system function? Do we just need better people in charge, or should we scrap the whole thing?

 

Hmm, let's get some more question going:
- Do you do your best work at night or in the daytime?
I'm a night owl, so prbably at night if i don't have any distractions. Annoyingly 'cos my mind's more active I tend to multitask about 20 things, but hey, eventually i get it done. I definitely write better poems at night.
- Describe an ideal day (gonna throw that one back atcha)
Going to a music festival next to woods and the sea and walking barefoot through the woods whilst rather heavily under the influence of something mind-altering, then sitting on the beach also heavily under the influence before returning to the festival and dancing the night away in a stupified trippy state.
- What political issues matter the most to you? I.e. which would be the most important in an elected leader?
I think really it's equality and really listening to what people want. There should be fairer rates of pay and people should be treated better never minding how old they are or which social group they fit into. Oh, and full equal rights for women
- Does the current system function? Do we just need better people in charge, or should we scrap the whole thing?
Scrapping the whole thing sounds very tempting, but I just have the feeling that some kind of big brother would take over and we'd have worse problems before. We need better people in charge, a whole new political group. We have no real left-wing option in this country apart from maybe the green party, and they keep a really low profile.

Thanks, made me think!

 

What's your opinion of Green Anarchism? Back to the land sort of thing, government devolved to town/village level, with an elected commitee.. eh, I don't explain very well.
How about Anarchism in general?
Assuming a dictatorship gains power, who would you most trust with that power? Is a "benevolent dictatorship" ever a viable solution?