Well now, well now...

...young man. Working on a paper for university at the moment, which is keeping me out of trouble (read: making my life boring and devoid of fun). Well, no actually, had fun yesterday; I went bass amp shopping at at a local music store. Would have bought this, but they didn't have one in stock (not for myself, alas).

(picture courtesy of citizenjazz.com)

Anyway, what I've been wanting to talk about since yesterday or longer is this whole Securitas mega heist 50 squillion quid robbery business over in Blighty. Obviously, I don't know anything except what the media tell us about the whole affair. What surprised me initially, though, is my feelings about the matter. Because, essentially, I find myself hoping all the time that maybe those robbers will miraculously get away with their dirty deed and all the loot. Now, isn't that weird? I've noticed myself feeling pangs of disappointment with every newscast about new people being arrested, vehicles found and the like. Why is that so, I wonder? Is it a) because I'm a raving maniac with vast forces of criminal energy slumbering undiscovered beneath a paper-thin facade of bourgeois contentment, or b) might I not be the only one who feels a kind of pride in the achievement made by what must presumably be "people like you and me", i.e. the underdogs of an increasingly oligarchic society? In fact, might I be right in assuming there is something of a groundswell of unspoken support for this bunch of people who had the audacity to commit a crime of such epic proportions? After all, there appears to be something decidedly Robin Hood-esque in attacking those with money so blatantly and with such devastating results. I may be well off the mark here, but doesn't it appear almost like an act of terrorism, a counter-strike of guerilla venom against the ever-increasing dominance and sheer boundless power of those who have systematically ripped apart state institutions and systems that provided more equal opportunities to those with lesser income? Call me a madman, sue me, block my bloggings off Google (like in China) or whatever, but I have to say I'd love to see www.supportourrobbers.co.uk out there somewhere, if only for the fun of irking the powers-to-be with its existence.

(this pic courtesy of www.hindu.com)

I think I might have gotten a bit foamy around the mouth here, but this just needed to be said. Okay, okay, I'll come down off my soapbox now. Yes, I'll take my medication and have a lie-down, nurse, no problem...