Tweets II

I asked. They answered. I wrote.

-Sebastian Junger

When I originally created this blog it was not my intention to turn it into a grandiose, electronic journal. (My intention was for it to be a online audition for Ashleigh Brilliant's ghostwriting position.) Frankly, I believed that very few lives warranted periodic airing. Well, with the advent of Twitter I was proven wrong. We can now read, (and see), what brand of peanut butter Ashton Kutcher, (no offense Ashton), is putting on his toast. We can now read inane "tweets" that are touted as mountaintop revelations. We can now see that the sign of a superior intelligence is merely the ability to eloquently, and sometimes not so eloquently, state the obvious.

Now that I've got that thinly disguised rationalization out of the way, I can safely continue to state my opinions.

The title escapes me, but I remember reading a book a while back in which a future, heavily computerized society is on the brink of shutting down due to a digital virus. Before the apocalypse, a company produces a software program that saves the day. They are perceived as heroes. However, by the end of the story we learn that this software company was the entity that created the virus to begin with. Allegorical? Of course. The author, like Ray Bradbury in his book Fahrenheit 451, is definitely trying to tell us something. I guess we're all have to come to our own conclusions.


The Bible states in Acts 4:32 that: "...the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." It also states in Acts 4:34 that: "Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold." Sounds a lot like socialism/communism does it not? If you think about it rationally, communism is much closer to the Christian ideal than Capitalism is.