Why do we need money? I mean, I know the world would collapse because we’re generally all uncivilised bastards, but if there was proper world peace and we weren’t the product of generations of money-grabbing barbarians, would we really need money?

As far as I’m concerned, money just creates problems. How many times have you felt depressed about your lack of money? How many times have you spent too much on a night out or gambled too much of it away and felt guilty? How many bankers and ‘celebrities’ are being paid a shit-load just to do jobs that ‘normal’ people could do. I suppose it all comes down to power and the evolution of man to be greedy and always want more. But in my eyes, money is making the world a horrible place to live in.

Why should there be whole continents that struggle in poverty when there are some individuals with more worth than a small country’s GDP? Imagine a world were everyone could live without the fear of debt and not being able to put food on the table (if you can even afford a table to put it on). Imagine a world where your luxuries depended on the difficulty of the job you did, and everyone could eat a healthy amount of food every day for free. Imagine a life where there wasn’t undesirable places to live and you didn’t have to worry about people trying to steal what you had. Imagine a life where you didn’t have to feel like shit just because some rich cunt is looking down their nose at you. Imagine a life where you could do what you enjoy without having to worry about whether you could afford it or not. Imagine a life where you could go anywhere on Earth without having to save up for an extortionate plane fare. Imagine a life where oil companies weren’t making billions of Dollars every year as a result of screwing over Joe Public.

It’s hard to imagine what that would be like. And why? Because generations before us have screwed up our societies so much that we have to rely on little bits of paper and numbers on a balance sheet to get us through the day. You can’t do anything without money being involved. Even walking down the street and seeing the odd coin lying on the pavement makes you think about whether it’s worth picking up and what people would think of you if you did. What has the world come to when we need to fundraise just so people in other parts of the world have access to clean water?

I very much doubt I’ll see any kind of resolution to these problems in my lifetime. In fact, I very much doubt that these problems will ever be solved. Governments can get together and think up crackpot ideas to try to fix things, but there’s not a chance in hell that more tax and a bit of recycling is ever going to make the world a better place to live in.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? 963 days to be precise. I’ve had a rubbish two and a half years; how about you?

Well, it’s not all been bad – it’s just the bad has far outweighed the good. But that’s enough negativity. Let’s talk about what’s going right with the world… Well, we’re still in a depression, petrol prices are sky high, VAT has just gone up permanently (I never liked that awkward 17.5 percentage anyway!), unemployment is at its highest rate in decades, innocent lives are still being taken in warfare and poverty and famine in the world as aren’t getting any better. Deary me, that didn’t go very well, did it? Is anything going right in the world?

We have a Royal Wedding this year. Yee-ha! People get married every day – not sure why this one is any different. That’s enough about the Monarchy; I feel like I’ve wasted too much energy typing even that! We have a new government that’s promising to fix the country’s problems. But that’s not exactly working so far. What else is there… I’m actually struggling to think of something.

Maybe I’m just out of touch with the world. I have a routine and it’s working well for me right now. And that doesn’t really involve reading newspapers or going out of my way to find out about world news. But does that matter? Do you really need to know what’s going on around you when you’re just one person in a population of 7 billion? Sure, it gives you things to talk to people about; but what if I don’t want to talk to people? What if I want to avoid the unintelligent and rude people that generally make up the population?

I might just have to grin and bear that though since my bedroom is starting to feel like a prison cell. In an open prison, of course. You know, the prisons were the inmates can do whatever they like. But what else is there out there apart from the lovely people of the world? Shops that are too expensive, weather that is not dissimilar to that of the Arctic, the constant feeling that you’re being judged, and a general culmination of life’s disappointment. Fabulous. That’ll encourage me to get out more.

Don’t get me wrong, I have moments of inspiration that give me quick bursts of motivation. But they quickly drain away when I realise nothing has changed in the world and I’m not in any position to do anything about it. Perhaps I should just try to change my life before I try to change the world. I’ll let you know how that goes. Maybe I’ll post a shockingly positive update next time!

Well I’ve felt the need to post about something, so I won’t necessarily keep posts to the topic of XEv5 after all…

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You may have noticed I haven’t posted anything here in a while… well, this is why…

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I’ll warn you now that most of you probably won’t find the following post interesting!

The last remaining premium rate phone-in quiz show on TV (Quiz Call on five) has finally managed to surpass its previous incompetence. I haven’t entered a quiz show for about a year now, but I still like to keep an eye on what’s happening. Don’t get the wrong idea about the quiz show I’m talking about – it’s not the only one still on air because it’s the best one… far from it, in fact.

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I’m sure not all of you will have heard this story, but I’d like to touch on it briefly. Phil O’Donnell was the captain for the Scottish football club Motherwell FC, and on 29th December 2007 he collapsed on the pitch during a game and died shortly afterwards from heart failure. As you may know I’m no football fan, but there’s a reason why I’m posting about this…

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Did you have a good or bad start to 2008? Well, to be honest, I don’t care… I’m not just being downright rude, I actually have a point to make.

I had a great start to 2007, but it turned out to be an average year. I’ve had an average start to 2008, so does that mean the rest of the year will be great? I doubt it…

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Well 2008 is now upon us, and I thought I would do something new myself. Obviously blogs aren’t new – there are so many different fads nowadays I can’t keep up with them all – but blogs are (mostly) new to me. Apart from helping someone make a football-related blog (and when I say help, I mean work on and get paid for!), I’m pretty much new to this, so bear with me if it looks like I know jack shit… I know there are probably millions of blogs around the interweb these days, and I can’t imagine mine will be that much different – but if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to go to uni and attempt to run an Xbox 360 fansite at the same time, then you should get a good idea of the work involved if you read everything I type. I’m not suggesting you do, because you’d probably get pretty bored, but you may as well read my posts since you’re here! And hey, if nobody reads this, I can at least have a diary-like record of my life since the start of 2008.

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