Ahh war is a terrible thing, it makes my head hurt. the mid east at the end of the day once judgements are passed, comments are made, accusations hurled and theories abound, it comes down to survival, one people trying to survive, against another people, see if i had my time machine, i'd make time go backwards, isreal would rebuild beruit with their armies, those hezbolla peoples would be returning the soilders, there would be peace again, mmmm, not even i am nieve enough to believe there ever was peace.
well i went for a wander through old babylon, watching the town thrieve, met jake for a cup of tea in the back of the bookshop where we do our thing, read the papers and chat about stiuff, hes started tafe and was asking me about UNI. i explianed to him how i was doing a course in arts and photography in london and a year in the college became a UNI and the cert. I was doing became a degree. I explained to him, qualifications like degrees are useless, you can buy them over the net, they just mean you spent a lot of money at UNI and attended some lectures. Its better to travel, see the planet, learn the language of the world, broaden your realm of experience with the senses and intuition, never put yourself in the position where you are programed by some fuckwit with a history book or a political theory book or a book on globalization, marketing, etc. its always smarter to get the knowledge first hand. for example all the physics i learnt at school, is now redundant, the model of the physical universe was wrong. i said to Jake, 'Read Lucifer Principle.' its the only book worth reading, then read 'Global Brain.'
Take this information into the world and use it in every encounter you have, that's education and intelligence.
Well i drove him to the bus stop and we chatted a bit about war, peace and girls. Then i managed to get myself caught in some weird neurotic loop where i just wasted a day, walking in circles and cleaning things, and repiling my piles of books. there are to many books now, they are everywhere, masses of them sprawled over my floor, once the sun sinks i can't see them and have to negotiate my way through their maze, its kinda silly but i wouldn't have it any other way, of course if you got a spare book case i'd be happy to take it off your hand :)