Presented with the opportunity to, I invariably attempt to prove the biological truth can be overcome and humans do not need to sleep for eight hours, straight, each day. For that purpose, I either try to sleep less than eight hours, or try to sleep in segments of time - two hours here, four there. The only purpose of this is proving to myself that I can do it, since I can convince no one of the dubious use of such an habit. In fact, the end result is often so futile that it defeats the entire purpose of trying - all I get from it is the ability to adapt to any timezone with great ease (while people get all annoyed at daylight saving time).
Related to these subjects is a thought I keep watering and nurturing just to see if I can do something about it when I have the chance (and Absolute Control Over Reality - ACOR). The world has a whole lot of wasted potential. Not simply the world, as in "planet Earth and its population". I mean reality. For example, beauty: Nicole Kidman exists, so it is proven it can be achieved. Why, then, do her parallels represent less than 0.5% of the female population? In other words, why is the vast majority of people unnattractive, or downright ugly?
Taking it further, reality could well have an anime theme to it. We should all look like we were drawn by Rumiko Takahashi. In one city, at least - in another city, we would instead look drawn by Clamp (in the North part of this city, in the Card Captor Sakura style; in the South, in the Chobits style). In that small village, like Shin-chan. Over there, El Hazard, and Tenchi Muyo. Down that road, Escaflowne. And it would be perfectly normal to simply "change form" upon arrival in said city - we want no fights over who is prettier, as we want no one feeling cheated because they were born in the Speed Racer city and their muscles feel paralyzed.
Of course, I could derive from that thought the brilliant idea of pursuing, researching and building a gigantic virtual reality network. Then people would get out of their boring lives for some moments and be Van Fanel or Kenshin - and then go back to their boring lives. And my network would be accused of being a spin-off of The Sims Online and of being highly addictive and lead to deaths in Singapore. And it would be filled with Super Sayajins saying "lol stfu". And there would be a very suspicious imbalance between the male and female population - corollary to that, there would be a tremendous lot more homo and bisexual females than males; and inn rooms and other private places would often be scenario to hentai activity, so I would have to say the game is "R" or "PG-13 unless specified". Then I could steal all the money and flee to some place very far off and hidden and try to forget what my cute alternate reality became (even though I knew it would from the start), or I could commit suicide and hope I can have my vengeance on them all in the after-life (or spend said after-life in an anime world, of course).
Returning to the original track: to be honest, I was just thinking of how sillly it is that there is no Shampoo to be found anywhere nearby (Shampoo being the ultra cute purple haired Chinese girl with doubly ultra cute accent). That is a true waste of potential.
Posted by Etienne at April 2, 2003 06:28 AM