Here's a serious question: if its bad to discriminate against people for the colour of their skin, would it be just as bad to discriminate against them for their level of intellect?

Because I know I'm guilty of the latter, and I'm not too proud of it either.

And don't you have when you realise that you've intellectually surpassed your parents?

It's scary.

Oh and also, what do you think of individualism?

I was thinking, right, that its pretty much the root of all evil. Here's how it works:

1. Individualism emphasises on the differences between people/individuals, therefore making people not only prejudiced but also selfish.

2. People like to blame their own problems on those that are different from them.

3. People also like to generalise.

4. Therefore these prejudiced and selfish people will make (usually) negative sweeping statements on groups of people based on their differences, which then leads to the conflict and war and political pettiness thats happening today, when really, in the words of the great Tyra Banks, "You change the world by helping the person right next to you."

5. So perhaps if individualism was not a priority in the first place, then hate and greed wouldn't be such a big issue in the first place. Seriously, when was the last time you were encouraged by the authority to celebrate the things you have in common with each other as opposed to the "good" things about yourself that make you "special"?

I guess this is all pointing to communism and socialism, but then again there are a million reasons why those won't work either but thats another story for another day...

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Last weekend I went for an Amnesty International Student Conference, and I cannot tell you how valuable I found it.

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In a few weeks I'll be done with exams, done with school, done with !@#$%^ maths....so I need a list of things to do to keep me from staying home and watching tv all day.

• Get a job for xmas season that's enjoyable AND pays well...I'm thinking hotels or photography studios?
• Save enough money to buy me a ringflash, fish eye lens for my holga, and a new colour flash because I left my old one in darv's car and it got sent to the mechanic's after it broke down on the way home from La Vie en Rose and then it went missing and oooh, its absolutely dreadful.
• Give half my clothes to charity/auction them on eBay....there is literally no more space left in my wardrobe to fit them. Seriously! I have no idea where they come from...
• Use that money to buy lots of tickets for lots of gigs ^^
• Learn Spanish and/or Arabic.