The Goth Club

It should come as no surprise to anyone living in a major urban centre that overcrowding is going to be a massive problem in the future. The very near future if you live in Melbourne. One of the huge issues here is that people in Western countries are simply not willing to give up their “quality of life” (read: massive mansions that are far too large for their actual needs and only serve to live out fantasies put upon most people by 1960s sitcoms, and current Hollywood dramas), and live in places that are actually of a suitable size to their needs. Everyone needs a mansion, but there’s not actually enough land for everyone to have one.

The Cyberpunk genre gives us two solutions to this quandary:

1. Massively unchecked urban sprawl, leading into megacities that span multiple state boundaries, and have impressively large buildings situated in the middle, where all the work is done by an underclass of artificial humanoid life that totally doesn’t resent us like in Appleseed; or
2. Arcology type structures. (more…)

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We certainly can’t vote for Gore here (or again even if we become US citizens, as he seems to have quite politics), but we can still have our own zombietastic fun, shuffling about the place, scaring the living crap out of the regular populace, and generally doing what gawths do best: sticking out in society like a sore thumb that’s been slapped to a forehead in a fit of ennui.

But we take the Zombie Shuffle for what it is. A silly bit of fun. A public dress up day where we can all pretend that skipping a shower because we rushed out of the house ater waking up late to make it to the march in time was really all part of an ingenious plan to simulate the scent correctly. It’s a good time. It’s organised chaos. It’s graveside humour. (more…)

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For a start, if you don’t get through this, I really don’t blame you.

Anyway, going through the fantastic suggestions that YouTube throws up (a fitting metaphor here) when you watch video after video, I found this delightful bit of animated Indonesian Mythology.

Considering that Indonesia is now almost entirely Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Buddhist, with atheists and those of other religions making up less than 2% of the remaining population, and I’ve already picked on everyone in these groups except for Hindus (seriously, you try to find fucked up cartoons about Hinduism! It’s not easy!), I figured I’d try to go for the pre-religious imperialism mythology of the nation.

Enjoy! (he said through clenched teeth)

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Here’s some anime bible for you, with god dolling out wrath… and a robot… on Noah’s ark… with Noah… and only two very young children… kind of like Lafayette Ron Hubbard…

All this talk of religion lately, it leaves me with a line of questioning I don’t think anyone really stops to think about once they’re fully indoctrinated into their ideological pap.

As far as Monotheism goes, we’re basically up to V3.x with Islam. Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed. Some pretty fucking major prophets right there, never mind all the people that did spin offs on the show, like Martin Luther or Joseph Smith. There’s some serious time between these major upgrades, six centuries at a minimum.

If any of them were the one true religion, precisely why does it take their god so fucking long down his own little timeline (i.e. Islam has been around for about a quarter of the time that’s been since the Earth was created, Judaism’s got only a little over two thirds) to actually remind people about him and get them to start worshipping properly?

I mean, surely, if there was one true religion he’d have gone “Noah, remembereth the cataclysm of flood upon which i wrought terrible wrath upon an unfaithful land? Lo, tell all ye inhabitants of yon lands beyond where sky meets earth to worship me as the one true lord… bitches.”

Surely that religion would have been started, by god and his prophets, a little bit closer to the beginning of time, instead of waiting somewhere along the six and a half thousand (supposed) years of history to reveal it.

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