Writing and the great

I was watching Alexander the other day with my partner (yes I know raunchy gay sex)
And it piqued back up my interest in how much change a person can make in the world.

I have always been fascinated by Egypt, more than their ability to create the oldest ancient wonder of the world, the only one still intact, and one that modern day engineers are a bit unsure as to how they did it, (besides that they killed thousands of slaves) was the fact that they created writing! Every person reading this owes that to them (I say them as no one is sure who wrote the first hieroglyph) and so we have been able to record human history over the last 5 and a half thousand(ish) years. The mind boggles to think what happened before then, were we simply animals before that stage? I doubt it, as marks of 'civilisation' were around long before that.

Something else that sings to me about egypt, is the show of pure will, how one person can control so many, without the need for physical dominance, the power of the human mind as I went into in my last post. That power is limitless, which is why I can't definitely say that any religion is wrong, or that at one time in history witches and wizards did not exist. I am a believer that anything is possible, if you TRULY believe in something, it can manifest itself as 'real', too many times children are told that they can't do something, and that the world is harsh, and the world is a BAD place, and so they grow up with this belief, and you know what, the world IS a bad place, but not because of the things that happen, the 'bad' things happen because people believe in them. Of course it would be impossible (near ;) ) to change everyone's beliefs on this in an instant, but if you look at all of the historical figures throughout history who achieved anything humongous, you will see it started off with a belief!

But I digress, this does not tap into the origin of writing, and its meaning to me. Writing, gave the less physically powerful, a means to be powerful beyond what the most muscled up 'alpha male' could ever hope to acomplish. The power behind words is huge! In the end, there is only one thing that a person can change that will effect their life and all that they do, and all that they experience, and that is their mind. So in saying that, if you are able to change someones mind, you essentially have a higher level of control, and people wonder why there is such a huge gap between our rich and our poor, they are afraid to lose this power.

I went to a comedy festival gig last night, and I saw Will Anderson, very funny, I would reccomend it to anyone, but there was one point he made that really stuck with me; 85 people have as much resources at their disposal as half the world (3.5 billion people) now this is staggering, there has never been a time in history when the ratio has been so large in proportion, (mostly because the population only hit 1 billion, just over 200 years ago) and yet, I don't know of any of these people doing any AMAZING things (in my mind) to compare with the pyramids. This is because, they too are trapped, constantly striving for an increase of a number on their screen, the money isn't even real any more, it's now just a meaningless number, most of which will not be used by themselves, what most people don't understand is that money isn't actually valuable, money is a concept, a concept the numeration of the value of products and services.

One day I plan on being VERY rich, first because I want to live in comfort and not have to do anything that I want to do, admittedly selfish, but that's fine with me. And secondly, to put me in a position to make REAL change in this world, I will start a revolution in my time, the world WILL NOT know what hit it, too much injustice, too much wrong with this world, I'm not saying I will fix it all, but I'm going to fucking try!

As always, love to you all

Tom