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This news story when it came up at the ultra large screen on mine here at Camp Sometimes (Wait that sounds like a new gay website which has ripped off the name here!) and I thought, fair play to the Russians! Though in some ways, you start thinking why the population has started decreasing after the fall of the soviet union.

I suppose you could point to the fact that lots of people wanted the life given in the West as it was conceived to be better than what they had in their homeland. But that was then, surely have things not improved since then? It seems not, the healthcare system has failed citizens, and the birth rate has fallen.

I think it could lead to the popular TV game show “MEGA BABY MONEY!!”, where you make babies and money and have a lot of fun doing it, you can win big too at the nappy of fortune. Dear me, but if any other nation faced the same thing that the Russians face, it makes you wonder what measures would be taken to encourage people to stay in their country and make little people.

But then in a way it starts kind of making you think about the one thing that it seems no-one ever looks at except for disaster movies: What would happen if certain circumstances happened at the same time? Such as no-one being born or there was only one country in the world where life can continue due to it being the only place on the planet with resources left for energy, food, and other development.

On Monday I was standing up over the front of the bullring near a set of toilets and i watched people wandering around quite happy, getting on with their jobs, shopping for the latest “must-have” piece of crap from some name I hadn’t even heard of and all the time I couldn’t help but wonder, what would all these people do if the rules went out the window?

If suddenly the people of the nation decided enough was enough and just started rioting, taking who and what they wanted. The women who prance around thinking they are all safe right now, would not have a clue what to do, and all the things we think is right and wrong, who would be able to say what is in that type of situation.

After all, we all keep to the rules until push comes to shove and then we do what we want. In a way that does come to explain what criminals do what they do, the terrorists do what they want. They want to do what they want and because they are in the minority, they can’t get what they want. But if lots of others acted in the same way, you would have simply revolution and chaos. I just couldn’t help but think this:

Everyone is just living in a dream land and really don’t want to face the real truth. We are always a hair’s breath from what we all know to be right being thrown out the window and the animal in humans taking over.

I guess that is a bit way out there even for me, but every once in a while, I do have these profound thoughts and although they can be considered rubbish, once every so often someone does tell me there is a point there.

I actually have a few thoughts about what goes on in this little world. Some of it can be repeated here in text so it’s isn’t entirely lost but there are other points I would like to say out loud, but alas popular culture being as it is, i would be ostracised and hated. I guess that does lead onto another point I wanted to make this evening:

People are never themselves. You know you hear in all the papers and mags, that people (men or women now) love it when you are yourself. But what exactly does it mean to “be yourself?” I have no idea what it means these days, as there are always two people you meet that share the same body:

There are two sides to everyone. It’s just strange that being yourself means be the person that other people want to you to be. No matter what they say, they want to see what they want to see. People want to see other people as funny witty people who can provide laughs, and be semi-smart without ever pushing it.

In my line of work, I get on a lot better with people if I act the fool and pretend not to know too much. It actually has got me quite far. But I were to stop, and show more of my true intelligence then people would go off me. It sounds weird but alas I have seen what both sides bring and the funny side of me brings in more opportunities so the other me gets pushed inside more.

I guess I just personalised it a bit, but I bet you a shiny penny that i am not the only one out there in the world not to discover this fact about people. Sometimes it just feels false.

I had to write something about what bothered me today. I don’t know why.