Regime

I really like the word regime. This is going to be a blog that is based on something I like, rather than some message I am pretentiously trying to convey. My Mac tells me there are two meanings. I already knew this, but love that I am able to verify it so easily by pushing F12. Random gripe, the 12 is shorter than the F, fuck this font. Back to the regime though. The first meaning has to do with a particularly authoritarian government. The second meaning refers to a strictly adhered to way of doing things. I like the second meaning but with the added touch of the authoritativeness of the first. I always tell myself I am going to go on regime, not A regime, but "regime," kind of in the sense that it is opposite of vacation. Lots of people go on an exercise or dietary regimen, I say regimen isn't militaristic enough. So far most of my regimes have only lasted about 3 days. At least I beat Joseph Goebbels, his regime lasted about 5 hours. The idea of a regime has just always appealed to me though and I figure if I keep attempting them, eventually the attempting will outweigh the not attempting. Regime's are just so absolute, so controlled, so unquestioning and strict. I am a man of the moment and just haven't had the self control to keep myself to a regime. Anything that can be that efficient, exact and fully intentional in everything it does is of great admiration to me. I want that. I want to be the best soldier in an army of ants whose entire existence is based around becoming a better soldier. I want to be the taxi driver. I want to be Hitler's army. There's something about a regime that's just unstoppable. The word regime has power. This may be why communism has always appealed to me. I always thought the russian in Rocky IV was a complete badass, or the killer in No Country for Old Man, or The fucking Terminator. Completely regimented, unquestioning and powerful. It's probably because it is just so unlike me that I kind of want that regimented power. It's not something I really desire, it would squeeze out so many other of life's joys. But there is just something in me that has an infinite interest in the Robotic life of improvement. I admire that man who becomes obsessed with his mission, and spends more time at his business than with his family, or the man who loses all social contact to spend 18 hours a day at the gym. The machine of a human on regime is just somewhere in me and I want to awaken part of it.

So yeah. As always, not fully fleshed out, I'm not that Nabokovian writer on regime shooting for perfection, I just have a deep interest in his type.

also, yes, I do occasionally do blog research on Wikipedia, so sue me.