Guess what! I have no criminal record. That's right. I sent in my $55 to the police station, so that they could go find out that I had done nothing wrong. How messed up is that?
And what's with everything in this world being represented on paper? Everything that a person is, everything that a person owns, can be found on pieces of paper. Paper to show that you were born, paper to show that you were baptized, paper to show what grades you got in school, paper to show you graduated the school system, papers to show what you bought at the store, papers to show that you are innocent, papers to show that you own property.
And they even have papers to show that you REALLY ARE dead! Not just pretending to be dead I suppose... maybe there's a lot of people out there who fake death... Dunno. Why else would they need a death certificate?
I think there's too much paper being passed around every day that represents items, time and people. It's rather like insanity. Why do we think that individuals are tied to these little things that sit in our wallet, with our pictures and big numbers on it? If this little card is stolen, there we go, down the drain. That's our IDs, and if they get taken, we're erased from reality. So what if the computers malfunction that recognize that little card and then we truly get erased from the system? That's all it would take... for our numbers to be accidentally deleted because of natural disasters, or some sort of machine malfunction that contains the files on the... on the... well where ever the big files go where police men take $55 from you and then spend a couple minutes looking on four databases to find out if you did anything wrong. The information goes somewhere, and that would really be unfortunate if numbers were misplaced or servers went down and thousands of people's lives essentially, went down the drain... like a blip.
I think our system is too reliant on numbers, statistics, and pieces of paper. What would the world be like if we took all that away, and actually had to go out and get to know the people in out neighborhood? Would it really be that much of an unsophisticated chaotic place? I don't think so.
And personally, I'd like my money back.
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Go look up "Max Headroom" for Blank Reg. There is solace in being a "Blank"
Max Headroom is so creepy... haha, but yes, I found something on Blank Reg. It feels like we are somewhat close to the idea of "big brother" as mentioned in the book "1984" by George Orwell in the way that a lot of our ideas, most of our identity, and our professions and status in society are all documented.
There's a website that is really... Well useful and rather disturbing (because it makes stalking so easy) because you can search up anyone on the internet for free. It's called www.pipl.com and you can search anyone at all, and it will come up with a whole long list of online entries for that person.
It's a pretty interesting world out here.
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