more useless theoritcal vomit

I'm watching the news right now.

This is something I just thought of....

Are we headed for a major power outage within the next year?

I just saw something on the news about fluorescent lights and that other lights might not be available after 2012. Then about 3 minutes later there was a story which had the headline, "outrage over shooting", but at first glance I saw "outage over shooting" which could also just be read simply, "outage shooting".

The reason I bring this up is that earlier I was sitting in the living room with Edward and he was showing me youtube videos, with this NLP whiz named Darin Something-rather (I'm sure the last name is in my history somewhere but I'm lazy right now) and I'd heard of NLP before but never fully understood what it meant or was all about. As soon as I started watching the videos though, it was like realizing something I've always understood about language and was always something that I was naturally aware of. When I'd hear people say things in conversations, I'd always hear some underlying conversation going on, weather it was on a personal level with a good friend, or some stranger on tv. I can't help it, I'm constantly aware of all of multiple levels of communication and translation existing on a single plane. Sometimes it even freaks me out a bit, and I'm sure it's part of the reason I don't trust TV.

The videos, sort of tuned me into this realm of thought. I became extremely aware of the influence of body language and the general waves of progression that arose within word usage in conversations, and it's intertwining with everything that followed. Now, this is something I've always been aware of, but always believed it was something only I was tapped into. I'd never seen it in action as it was in these videos. He used influential imagery with his subjects which created in them desires for things they didn't previously have interest in. For example this man who believed he wanted a bmx bike as a present, but was influenced by images around him and the words the nlp magician (for lack of a better term) used. I started to think again about television and about the way this most definitely must be used on us on a daily basis, otherwise, why would it even be a study at all?

So I was just watching the news and I some of those things, like the lightbulb story and then the repeated nonsensical story about "outrage over shooting". So I gathered that we are perhaps headed for some kind of riot, whereas our lights are shut off in the process making things even worse? Weather or not this is a true prediction, that may or may not have been deliberatley suggested, perhaps it was just out there in the radio waves like the bible code is and has been, and I simply saw it for a second, OR, maybe it means nothing, and I'm just loony tunes. ha.

It's blatantly obvious that there have been many stories following the 20th which have been quite finger-pointing in regards to race and crime, and it's just ugly. I mean, come on - do they really think we're that dumb? Am I the only one who's noticed how news has so dramatically changed at such a fast pace?

Suddenly, there are stories with language like, "Palestinians are pleading with Obama to stop the bombing." And I'm sitting here thinking... okay so we're bombing Palestine now? And how long has this gone on? All of a sudden it's Obama who's bombing? When bush was in office we never directly said, "Bush wont stop bombing", we'd say, "The US is still bombing, etc." But never his actual name. This seems like a way to persuade people into disliking Obama. OR... it's a social test. Maybe they want to see what they can get away with in the Media by saying things more outright, and being more upfront about what's going on overseas, and experimenting with our feelings towards war, should we happen to like our president. Would we be okay with it then? Or does popular opinion really control us?

And now I've got Fox News on mute right now, but this is what I see. A man and woman sitting on a nice homely couch. It's a mod style couch like one straight out of the early 60's. This implies a home-like atmosphere, and not just any home, it's a home like the one you grew up in, during the 60's. The woman is wearing a slightly form fitting sweater, light pink or maybe beige, and she has shoulder length hair which is slightly blondish. Her tone is that of a concerned mother. It's also one of warning with tinges of neighborhood gossip as if to say, "Do you know what so and so is doing next door? It's just not right." And the man on her left is wearing similar colors, slightly pink, with a red polka dotted tie. He's mostly nodding in approval. For the woman to take such a bold stance would be outlandish in politics, but not so in the comfort of the family home. At home our mothers are nagging and overbearing while the father sits by and says, "Yes it's true."

It got annoying though, and that's why it's on mute, I'm about to find a nature program in a bit here, if they are any on at all...