Ramblings Volume 2

Ramblings - Volume 2, 2nd November 2009, 16:14

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On naivety, and the way it's slowly destroying us
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Well, let's just settle the first matter at hand. I know it wasn't a week since my last post, but this was really a spur of the moment type post, inspired by a news story I heard on a certain radio station I ain't gonna risk metioning for copyright reasons. Consider it my gift to you, a special edition post!

Which actually gives birth to another problem or rather matter to address: a special edition post on my second? My second post to this blog is a special edition... Really makes you think doesn't it?

No?

Good. On to more pressing issues.

This was inspired by the story of the 'human chameleon' Paul Bint, who was jailed today for conning the hell out of some women, amongst some 350 other offences spanning a course of 30 years since his childhood. He's been dubbed King Con, and he essentially posed as a lawyer on a dating website to attract women who he then swindled.

Not much, right? Not too naive: so, he's a lawyer, big deal? Well, here's where you'd have to start getting a bit skeptical about the whole idea: he claimed to have a fleet of cars, amongst which was the car used in the James Bond film Goldeneye (20% ludicrous), he had socialised with former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan (40% ludicrous), he was good friends with Robbie Williams (60% ludicrous), he was the best lawyer in the country (80% ludicrous) and he was once married to comedy actress Sarah Alexander (*ding!* retarded!).

So that really left me thinking: how in the name of God Almighty or whatever you believe (although I must say I'm an agnostic, I think (lol religion joke)) could these women be so naive as to believe all of this? It really all starts for me with the fact that he was featured in lonely hearts ads. Now, this man, whoever he impersonated (some were told a very famous lawyer, Jonathon Rees, others think the Director of Public Prosecutions) was in a lonely hearts ad on the internet. You'd have to be a fool to click on one of these anyway, but to think that this man (and let's face it, for some people money does buy happiness, let's not kid ourselves) who could buy and sell any one of us for what he would consider a paultry sum would end up in lonely hearts advertisements. This man could have any woman he wanted, Jesus, he could buy any woman he wanted, yet he would stoop so low as to post himself on the internet?

Ooh, look at that, I'm being naive. Let's disregard that, and continue, with considerable haste.

The naivety is really possessed by the fools who wanted to date him. In olden days, it was safe to be naive - you could leave your doors unlocked at night, and open during the day (or so I'm told, my grandad might not be the most reliable of sources) - but now if you so much as leave a catflap open you'll probably end up missing the best half of your house, not to mention your skeletal integrity. Perhaps these women were living in the past, perhaps they had no concept of naivety whatsoever - but eventually, cracks start to appear.

Now, I'm not talking big cracks here, I'm talking... Actually, I have no idea what I'm talking about, this is a ramble and I can't be bothered scrolling up, but... I kind of mean that eventually, people are going to start suspecting everything and anything. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, hell, it might not even be in our lifetimes, however long they may be, but at one point in the future naivety is going to be a thing of the past for EVERYONE. You're going to start being afraid of every tree you see, because they might conceal a sniper; you're going to be terrified of old lady Doris because she might have a shiv in her handbag; you're going to stop turning your lights on because they might explode and a fragment of glass might kill you - you're going to be suspicious of everything. Suspicion for me is the opposite of naivety, and don't ever say that you'll never become this kind of person, I said I'd never go on facebook - and just look at the last post!

However, as a wise man once said: "What goes up, must come down". At some point in the even further future, we're going to stop being suspicious of the bigger things like terrorism because our tea might be too hot and cause us mild discomfort. We're going to forget to lock our doors because we're too busy listening to government propaganda, force-feeding us bullshit on how celotape can kill us. The streets will be rife with crime for about a year or so, until at some point we'll realise what's happening and realise that life is far too short to worry about oversharpening your pencil, and that life isn't long enough to take so many huge risks, so it'll all come back to the norm again.

I think during that year of crime and dismay, if I'm still alive, and if (persay) I'm a doctor, I'm going to post a lonely hearts ad claiming I'm a thief who steals from their partners for fun. I wonder how many responses I'd get, but moreover - I wonder if I'd be liable for prosecution?

Wait...

Hold on a second...

Everything I've just wrote (bar the news story, that's fact) was an absolute pile of bollocks...

That's a good reason to call it a special edition post, I guess.