Title of Blog that Sounds Really Deep but Actually Doesn't Mean Anything At All: Rant 443 / I Can't Feel My Butt

What I've noticed after watching a few movies that were regarded as very violent in the past, is that today's gory violence didn't start to appear till the 1990s. The Mad Max movie released in the 1980s merely showed body parts removed from the body, without the blood and brain bits exploding in all directions which seems to be the staple of all movies today except romantic comedies.

This confirms, in a way, my belief that civilization had never been actually civilized.

How did we begin? When humans were cavemen, we wore pieces of animal skins and killed each other all the time. Slavery was pretty much normal till the early 20th century. Even for the more civilized populations, there were forms of violence they enjoy and people really never did stop committing rape and adultery.

There were less? Who knows? What we do know is that there were less of such stories when we "became civilized", but this doesn't necessarily equate to fewer of such incidents. It's just like the way Singaporeans almost never mention the death penalty though Singapore does hang convicts.

Even now, we aren't as civilized we like to think we are. It is merely a facade that we put on so that we don't kill each other in the streets. We still like to see people die, whether it's in games or films. We want to see the gore, the pieces of unappetizing body parts flying all over the place. If not, then why are WWE and certain violent games so popular in places where people are considered liberal?

In many films and shows, we glorify law-breakers. Law enforcement officers appear to be more successful if they don't follow the rules. Teenagers playing violent and sometimes fatal pranks are just acting their age. No one looks at the children who gang-rape and violently abuse other children. They merely appear once in the papers and that's it. Discussion? None. Do people really care? Not much.

If we're actually civilized, our self-control should be better than that. Children who stick sharp objects into the bottoms (not referring exclusively to the anus) of other children should have been unthinkable, impossible, in a civilized society. Today, it's the occasional inspiration for another sensational news headline.

Fathers who rape their daughters for years, even decades, is yet another glaring example of how humans aren't civilized yet. Sick? No. Sick is 2girls1cup. Sick is 1guy1jar. This, IMO, is simply another facet human nature.

Using a recent revised version of Internet English I ask, "How do I civilized?"

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Six thousand years obviously weren't enough for us to come up with a proper response.

Or more likely, I've misunderstood what it means to be civilized.

I kept repeating the same word till it's painful to read, but I'm too lazy to proofread and edit the above portion of this rant.

The Legend of the Seeker, as I expected, is crap. It gets more and more repelling as the episodes went on. The original Seeker was a much greater man than the one portrayed in the TV series, with a quest more daunting than a mere powerful man. They basically cheapened various elements in the Sword of Truth.

If you have a Hotmail account, it's time to change your password.

More than 10,000 usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts were leaked online late last week, according to a report by Neowin.net , which claimed that they were posted by an anonymous user on pastebin.com last Thursday. Neowin reported that it had seen part of the list. "Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and most appear to be based in Europe," said the site. "The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists." Accounts with domains of @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com were included in the list.

"Most appear to be based in Europe." It really isn't saying anything.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/513760

Made by the same guy who created the Ultimate Crab Battle, Miami Shark is another hilarious free Flash game in which players control a shark that wreaks havoc in Miami.

You can start small by eating people and ducks, or you can aim high and leap up to bite into aircrafts to pull them down. It was hilarious when I was pulling a B2 Stealth Bomber and it went into stealth mode. Despite this desperate measure it went down just like the Apache before it. This is no mere Great White, because you can even drag a NASA space shuttle into the water.