I can't find much to whine about my life. ( So I'm gonna whine about MY opinion of the world. If you actually give a fuck about what I think, read on ) Guess that's why I havn't posted much. It's not that it's getting any better, I think I'm just used to its constant dismal state. With all this War and SARS crap going on, I find lingering onto the little pathetic problems in my life to be selfish as hell. Well, it's not like I can do ANYTHING about these problems. Really, studying Sociology simply makes one have a more cynical view of our society in general. It's true, cause either you learn to ignore and say *meah* to every horrible things that are going on in the world, or you will find no security or confidence in our society, in yesterday, today, or in the future. Sometimes I think it's better to go into some mountain, live alone as a monk or daoist guy, and just practice kungfu and meditate all day just to get away from it all. Hm...more political and current event rants. I dont' know what to think of the whole SARS thing anymore. The official statistic is that the disease have a kill rate of around 4 ( or is it 6 )%. The common flu have a kill rate of 10%, so this is simply a new and less harmful cousin of flu. The media is hyping it too much simply because it's "new". Then it must be "deadly" as well, they presumed. So it's not all that bad. Well, that's my old thinking. Apperantly though, the situation in China worsened, and I'm sure a lot more people died. The official statistic isn't so reliable anymore. There's also all these hoorahs about how SARS is an American conspiracy against the China, or some kind of biological weapon Japan developed and abandoned in WW2 and was buried in the ground, but the container leaked or something. There's something about it comes eating ducks raw too. Oh, not to mention the worsened public opinion of the Chinese in North America. Well, it's always a lot easier to blame some natural problem on someone than to focus on the fact that people are dying, stop trying to pass around the blame and try to focus on how to eliminate/prevent it! ( Although I do admit the American conspiracy thing is very plausable. ) The Iraqi war? Um well, Saddam didn't put up much of a fight. Rumors has it that he was dissapointed in the Arab world of not supporting him, hence he simply gave up. Well, now Syria is in trouble, Iran can't be far away. America probably wants to make the Arab nation its puppet in order to control the oil supply. The consumption of America's oil, can then, be streched until our grandchildren's children's time before it ends. If something like this indeed happen, I forsee the development of alternative fuel sources in countries like China, in which America won't be very kind in supplying oils to them. We actually have funtional alternative fuel solutions such as hydrogen fuel-cell. Electric power arn't nearly matured enough for industrial use imo. The problem is the currently established world elites won't allow such technology to mature to the point that they become main stream. OPEC won't allow it, and the business men in America won't allow it at least. ( Bush's family own a big oil company in Texas ) Hence the reason hydrogen fuel cell and electric havn't took off yet isn't because of technological limit. Hell, eletric cars were invented around the same time as internal combustion ones. Imagine if history were altered, we'd all be driving around electric cars that are probably just as powerful as the ones today. So yeah, our society are all about a bunch of rich goons sittng around a big table and trying to protect their own interest. That's capitalism for ya baby! Er, I'm tired of typing, pfft yeah, leave it to a first year Sociology guy like me to comment on the current world.