Seriously? I understand why 'Hollywood' love it. But isn't it their jobs to fill our minds with concepts, notions and stories that are to be perceived to be more interesting than what is outside our front doors. Surely some find comfort and or hope in the glitz and glamour message of 'All is well that ends well' but unfortunately our lives cannot all be sunshine and flowers without torrential rain and an overgrown garden bed ridden with weeds (Not the medicinal kinds).
Existance is a binary battle - Creation & Destruction, Yin & Yang, God & Devil, Life & Death, Black & White, Saint & Sinner, Love & Hate, Male & Female...these binary oppositions run deeper than the Pacific Ocean and to be honest drowning has never felt so good.
How are we able to define creation without destruction? Good without Evil?
Without the percieved 'negative' how would we know when we had encountered the 'positive'?
I personally feel a Utopian society would be like a spoilt teen queen - After never hearing the word 'No' she is no longer ready to hear it, yet she is no longer that satisfied by hearing 'Yes' either.
And what is this fanatical obssesion about 'living forever'. Death is just a deadline (pardon the pun) we are all working towards - If I knew I was immortal I would binge drink, never sleep and spend all my time sitting around in my boxer shorts reading conspiracy theories and fantasizing about Krystal from Big Brother - ahh hang on a second....
It seems that for as long as we all think and act as 'individuals' a Utopian society seems more unrealistic than the movies it is potrayed in. The Utopian dream is the note the singer cannot hold and the joke we told and told until it got old.
Tutorial Exercise.
1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman of the phillipines in the year 2000.
2. Who invented the paper clip?
Samuel Fay in the year 1867
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
The virus gets its name from the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960
5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1073741824 kilobytes equates to 1 terabyte
6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
One and a half million computers were infected by the storm worm virus.
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
Post:The Hon Kevin Rudd MPPO Box 6022House of RepresentativesParliament HouseCanberra ACT 2600
Phone:Ph (02) 6277 4022
Fax (02) 6277 8495
Email:Kevin.Rudd.MP@aph.gov.a
9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of? The Black assasins.
10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Web 2.0 is an encompassing term for the second wave of the World Wide Web.
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