Just a Thought

One of the best ways to maintain rulership over a people is to keep them divided and distracted. In this way, they cannot unite and remove rulership that they find oppressive or unworthy. (The best way to maintain rulership would be to keep everyone happy but that's not really an option.) We see that today. After 9/11 Americans were briefly allowed to unite against a common foe. Once it was realized that there wasn't a clear, obvious foe to face, a 'bad guy' like in the movies, we were quickly resplintered. Certainly, there was a target we were given, a specific face to put on the enemy but that face couldn't be tracked down and there was no proof that said individual had anything to do with the specific event that he was being blamed for and now he's not being officially sought for that event. Not that anybody really knows that.

Builds up fast

The other week I noticed that the debut album of one of my favourite bands was not in my iTunes. This led me to go through my CDs and see what else may have gotten missed over the years. I figured it wouldn't take long since I'd been good at getting all my music on the hard drive.

I was wrong.

My folder size has jumped about, oh, 10GB in the past couple weeks. And I'm not even close to being done.

The best part about it is that I've been getting to hear some music that I haven't heard in years. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed hearing some of these bands. Good stuff.