God! So how’s about I love the idea (I repeat, the IDEA) of becoming a Pirate! Hahaha, I’ve been too affected by One Piece (note my avatar, Straw Hat Pirates 1st Division Captain, Monkey D. Luffy) lately. This post, to the best of my abilities on expedient-mode, will give a try what I should consider given I was to be a pirate. Let’s go!
Physiological Needs: Food, Water.
Non-Physiological Wants: A Crew, a ship, superpowers (if obtainable), money. Oh, and clothes.
I’m a rather simple guy. I guess two things might be missing. One, I will be missing whatever my crew members want/need. Needs aren’t limited to my own, specially if I was to have a crew. I suppose the second missing object might be more “metaphysical” than the others. What is it? A goal. I love Monkey D. Luffy’s (here on referred to as MDL) to be the Pirate King, simply because HE WANTS TO BE FREE. It tells us something very insightful about him. It tells us he know that he will always have to bow to some power, limiting his whims so long as he is not the top rank dude in terms of people who have the ability to change your day. As Trafalgar D. Law (also a One Piece character) once said, “The weak don’t get to choose anything, not even their death.” This idea of wanting to overpower all the way is troublesome, though, whence pushed past certain limits. I’m not referring to pushing yourself and the crew all the way to the top edges of competitors, where that is inherently dangerous in a pirate world, but I’m referring to once you get to the very top, and you don’t want to STOP. So you’ve outdone all your human competitors; what’s next? Employ some of your subjects to empower you with the ability to become the weather? the earth? gravity? the sun? Back in the modern world, I’m surely not mistaken that we have (or are already making progress in) creating technologies that will affect the weather (for example) on a massive scale; beyond just your everyday infrared pot nursery, controlled atmosphere. Could a pirate seeking to reach the top one day employ enough of his resources (obtained through the grip of his power) that he could become a God-like being? I have over-stretched this topic, but I do consider these things sometimes when I consider whether I want to be a gun-owner and if, when taken to the perspective of military forces, for example, I would end up getting progressively more and more powerful weapons (wouldn’t someone argue that’s how the nuclear bomb came along?). Anyhow, I will have to a better directed post on my pirate aspirations in my following posts. Thank you for reading this. Sayonara!