Ecotopia back up. Let's talk about Violence

After a long abandonment, I have decided to not let the Ecotopia die just yet. So I'm back.

Today's topic is going to focus on violence. Particularly, the darker side of violence, a side we too-oft ignore. Anyone who knows me, or has read this, knows that I believe that weapons are fine to carry around. I say 'weapons' instead of guns, because I think that other weapons should be legalized. I will cover that later, but for now, the side we often ignore.

Pro-gun people seem to advocate that by merely having a gun in a women's purse, or in your truck is enough to stop a violent crime. Crime is violent, fast, brutal and efficient. A mugger is going to come out of the shadows and have a knife to your throat before you know what is going on. You can be attacked long before you process where your gun even is, much less go through the long process of preparing to fire it.

Are you really going to have time to unzip that purse, dig around for it, pull the slide back, and aim accurately? Oh... wait, you forgot to make sure the safety is off, that woman just got knifed and killed. It is foolish to think that this process is in anyway 'easy' or 100% success rate of warding off crime.

Police can't even do this, the average statistic for hitting a target within 5 feet are at least 70% missing/striking a different object. The New York Times carried an article about 13% hit rate. If police do this bad, how well is someone on the street, unready for a sudden, bloody assault going to be?

I have guns. I am 'pro' gun as most would consider it. But I am under no delusions about what having a gun for self-defense is about. It is about killing someone without a second thought, because that 'second' thought could get you killed. Ask yourself, how many of your guns( if you are 'pro-gun') are locked in a safe? How useful is that really if a criminal is standing over your bed with a gun pointing at your face?

Are you ready to keep a gun - without the safety on - loaded, and ready to go within arms reach of your bed? If you are serious about self-defense, this is exactly what you have to do, anything else is foolish, dangerous, and self-deceiving. Are you ready to TRY to shoot someone, probably miss, and possibly been immediately shot in return? Its a bloody truth a lot of people never consider.


For the second part of this special two-parter, is about melee weapons.

It seems rather stupid that people can carry guns around, yet knives 'over 3 inches' are somehow the target of vehement hate? A lot of pro-gun people advocate everyone packing guns around and that 'there would be no crime!' this may or may not be true, but to these people, I ask, "would everyone also having swords change anything?" Take this point seriously, for a gun can make even the weakest, oldest person in our society a criminal. This weak, decrepit person can easily go on a killing spree with only a semi-auto pistol. Excluding the odds against actually hitting people, a standard clip could easily end the life of 12 people with only twelve twitchs of the fingers. If that is not a MASSIVE PERVERSION of the natural order, I don't know what is.

But consider if we all had swords and guns. Not only would crime probably drop (unfortunately through the principle of 'mutually assured destruction' more then anything...) but imagine the massive calming effect of having your own destiny in your hands. Would someone decide it was a good idea to go mug someone who had a gun and a sword?

I am putting it out there, and I dare you to prove me wrong, with a five second warning, a sword is vastly more useful to prevent a mugging then fumbling for your pistol.

And if the criminal has a gun?
No problem, you have one too.

Home Sweet Home: The Earth

Ok guys, time for a discussion about the environment.

First, let me start with a very important point, technology is important, I truly believe a good form of ecology is a seamless integration with technology. It really has to be. As quaint and homely as some environmentalists might think it would be to live in tiny little villages growing our corn, it is simply unrealistic. Even if we did get to this state, what would we do? Stay there in stasis for generations? Give up on science? What about any country that does not go the way of 'village-izing', won't they be at a large advantage over these countries?


During my travels around Colorado I have seen two very inspiring sights as we drove past them: a solar farm, and even more majestic, mighty wind mills. I had never seen them in real life before except the cap of a wind mill at a Washington D.C. museum (which was HUGE). I was filled with a sense of pride that as humans we were (slowly) climbing out of the dark age of the dark fuel. ((On a side note, I do not have faith that we are actually moving fast enough, but that is for another time))

Despite mass media claims to the contary, there is tons of wind power available. Look on google or wikipedia, here is another link to check it:
' Worldwide, it's been demonstrated the there is enough wind power to power the entire earth's population'- http://www.energyjustice.net/solutions/wind/

In America alone, the 4 windiest states, funded, could produce enough power to power the entire nation. It is so laughable in its pitiful nature that everyone is like 'yay go wind!' until woah, the windmill is going on your beach. Shut up, seriously. You have multi million dollar homes, and are complaining? If we are going to survive this, we are ALL going to have to make some SACRIFICES.

A lot of people don't realize there is something called Eminent Domain, the government or state can come in, buy your land, and put roads there. I am unsure of if the government can do this with renewable energies, regardless, I support the government doing this. I mean off shore, or in desolate land is preferable, but if it is going 'in your backyard' just deal with it. They will produce renewable, clean energy for their lifetime. How is drilling for oil going to save us from anything?

A lot of people decry environmentalists for 'not defending America's energy independence'. I also do not support drilling in our country as a way to 'gain energy independence'. It is kind of like having a back up bank account, is there any way we gain financial independence by withdrawing our money to pay bills? No, you can gain independence by investing. It is exactly the same with renewable energies. Instead of wasting millions on digging oil wells, put in solar and wind mills.

By the way, installing these has an added benefit on having high-end jobs created. There will be engineers, technicians, etc. needed to maintain our renewable system. Is there any problem with more high tech jobs created instead of more people working at mcdonalds?

Hey, for all the militant environmentalists out there, here is another benefit of putting in vast renewable energy systems: when the governments that do not go environmental run out of oil, they will be at a severe disadvantage. We have a continuing, and never ending energy supply while they relied on the aptly named 'fossil' fuels.

So in conclusion, renewable energies are a source of high techonology, give us energy security, and our better for our planet.

(Everybody wins, except the rich people and thier ocean view!)

So it begins

Well, here is the start of what I think could be an interesting little experiment. I'll lay out a quick foundation of what I want this blog to become. Occasionally I will have some interesting events that have happened to me (I do a lot of fire fighting and rock rescue, cliff jumping etc.,and generally lead an interesting life), but i also think its stupid to just 'journal' online and hop the masses will actually care enough to want to read it.

However, the main point of this is throughout my life, my view of the world has gradually shift (not from 'democratic' and 'republican' both of these are so wrong it is laughable) from one 'extreme' of idealogical belief to another, not necessarily that far from the beginning, but enough that my friends find it surprising. Anyway, so i will either have different points of stuff i truly believe, and reasons for it, or just entertaining stories and links to cool vids/stories/ games etc.

I totally encourage comments, I'll probably just get a lot of flame mail, but if anyone actually resonates with what i'm going to talk about, I'd definitely want to hear.

Anyway, on to a QUICK summary of things I will eventually get into detail about. Let me also state up front, I am not a bleeding heart liberal, I love guns, I think we should kill people much faster in jail, I am also for military action against countries, especially those not environmentally friendly. It would be dream if one day our world was unified under a collective banner, all supporting environmental causes.
Basically, our current world is in such a DISASTROUS situation that unless we quickly change things, the end of our current society is guarantee. I am talking about things like over population, a highly dysgenic trend our society has taken on, a total apathy towards just about everything. Particularly, our environment, something we totally depend on so much is routinely neglected all in the pursuit of a rather laughable idea of ‘money’.

I also hate the liberal/hippy idea that technology and genetic engineering is bad, (actually both sides hate the genetic engineering…) unfortunately, we must dump this archaic belief, and fully embrace a solid science that could help us so much.

Well, I think that is enough for an intro, if you are down for hearing about genetic engineering, why stupid people are the bane of the earth and should probably be exterminated, why environmentalism (well a form of it) must be embraced wholeheartedly, why I believe larger governments and higher taxes are a good thing, and in general some rather ‘extremist’ points of view, stick around, it should be interesting.

If you are easily offended, and can’t think outside of your own small world view, just save us both time and don’t bother flaming me, but if you have some good points, I’d be happy to discuss. Anyway, until next time!