The northlondonhippy

Archive for May 11th, 2006

Hello my friends and hippyfans.

It’s a glo­ri­ous spring day in north Lon­don, but rather than enjoy it in a nice park some­where, I’m here in front of my com­puter, think­ing of fun ways to enter­tain you.

I’m all about enter­tain­ing you; it’s my rea­son for living!

Besides, all the parks around here are full of drug gangs and crack­heads. Per­haps remain­ing at home is the safer option.

But enough of my urban para­noia, I’m here because I stum­bled upon a new fea­ture on Google, which amused me enough to men­tion here.

On Google’s UK home­page today, they added a link to a brand new beta ser­vice, called “Google Trends”.

Basi­cally, it’s a way to check to see how often a cer­tain search term is used over a period of time. I don’t know what its good for, but it sure is cool.

Nat­u­rally, the first word I plugged into it was “fuck”.

Ok, so I’m child­ish, puerile even. At least it led to some inter­est­ing information.

The num­ber one city search­ing for the word “fuck” is Delhi, in India. Who knew?

But the real rev­e­la­tion is when you switch over to see what region (as the header says) or coun­try is search­ing for the word “fuck” the most.

Accord­ing to Google, it’s Iran. Yes, Iran.

I won­der what the mul­lahs will think of that?

But it goes to show you that peo­ple are peo­ple, wher­ever they come from. It’s really true; we’re all not that dif­fer­ent. We all like to Google the word “fuck”.

It doesn’t really mat­ter what your nation­al­ity is; we’re all earth­lings. I wish you all greet­ings from planet earth.

Wouldn’t the world be a bet­ter place if we saw our­selves as earth­lings first? That’s what we are. National bor­ders are silly; immi­gra­tion restric­tions are even sil­lier. We all share this planet and we should share it equally.

Why should any­one be con­demned to spend their entire lives on the spot where they were born? Some places are bet­ter to be born than oth­ers, but we can be nomadic. We should be able to travel wher­ever we want, when­ever we want, for as long as we want.

It just seems sensible.

Are we all equal? In the­ory, yes, but not in prac­tise. We should be and that includes the free move­ment of people.

Do you realise that com­mer­cial goods move around the planet with more free­dom than we do? Am I the only one who sees the moral dilemma in that statement?

Look at Amer­ica, as I fre­quently do and their prob­lems with their “guest work­ers”. Even the term is fucked. Have you ever put a guest to work in your own home? Wouldn’t that just be the rud­est thing you could do to a visitor?

What would hap­pen if we just stopped all bor­der con­trols? We could just greet each other with a hail and hearty “hello fel­low earth­ling”. Would that really be so bad?

Of course it wouldn’t! It would be one more giant step towards Utopia!