Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

what is my ideal place? as much as i like japan, there's still far too many issues that make it some place i'm hesitant to live permanently. LA sucks and is only good for the weather. Vegas? Maybe as a retirement home if you have plenty of money to pay for all the electric bills for the heating. Not to mention the job market for what i do in Vegas SUCKS. So what is the ideal place? quite honestly, i doubt there is the ideal place. i would say Mars, but we're about 50 political years before getting to that point in my george bush estimation. Mars????? yeah, there's no one living there, guaranteed (i moved for those keeping track). seriously, the point is that i'm starting to realize not only do people suck, but i want to disengage myself from most people as much as possible. i like enough people where i'm not a complete sociopath nor anti-social. however, i'd like to be in a spot with the minimum interaction with society. actually, it's not so much people, but certain types of people as well as forms of control. i want to get away from the politics and the depressing news. the thing i'm finding out is that the more we globalize, the more a country like the US will impose it's imperialistic nature on other places. worse yet, you run out of places where you can live by yourself, away from bullshit like wars, taxes, politicians, and can just do what you need to get done. by the time you reach that point, you're already 20 years before death. and in my book, you're actually getting closer to that point each year because of the choice of diet for average humanoid. so where to go? honestly, i don't know. i do know that the best thing to do is get a lot of property, make it so that you're best and most trusted friends and family can live there and form something like a self-sustaining commune. i would even argue that these monolithic corporations are the precursor or foretelling of these societies. take a google or yahoo for instance. they hire like-minded people. you'd probably never see a wallstreet banker at one of these places. the same could be said about seeing a dot com employee happily being employed at goldman sachs. the philosophies are different. what things boil down to are the return of Rosseau's philosophy. small societies where people know and trust each other. kinda like a tribe. it's the only way humans will survive in the long term, as cultures intermesh and form new cultures and belief systems that clash with each other and periods.