Well, since everyone else but Paul has done it and I'm sure you all give a fuck about me...
I'm Cameron, or Cam, and I am a 24 year old Scot. I live with my cousin in Glasgow. I have been unemployed since moving here, which sucks a heck of a lot, but I am at least starting college later this month. I also turn 25 just before college begins. I vary from non-plussed to slightly bemused that I am almost 25 because I'm not entirely sure I feel all that different from when I was 15 and utterly confused by the world at large.
My passions in life are music (listening, never learned to play any instrument, though in hindsight I wish I learnt trumpet in High School when I got the chance with the school band), football (Soccer for you Yanks), American football (Green Bay Packers all the way :)), reading either history books, books on philosophy and politics or else sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and video gaming. I have quite a broad taste in music these days, covering a wide spectrum of music, but my primary love is metal music, which I am very passionate about. Music geekery is fun. My social life tends to revolve around gigs, I'm quite a reclusive individual most of the time and find it very difficult to talk to people I don't really know. But yeah, I kind of live for gigs. So much fun to be had headbanging along to outrageously loud music.
With college coming up on the horizon I finally have something firm to look forward to after month after month of failing to find a job thanks to the current economic recession/depression really hitting the job market in Glasgow hard. I am going to be studying an HND in Social Sciences, with the intention of passing this course and then heading to university for a degree in politics, philosophy, history, or some combination of those subjects.
I am generally wracked with self-doubt, though as those of you who read the Debate forum may have noticed, on certain issues I have a confidence in my beliefs vergin towards arrogance at times. I am a very proud athiest who wouldn't shy away from describing myself as an anti-thiest, I have very strong left-wing views when it comes to politics, I regard myself as an extremist who believes the best political ideology for the overall good AND the individual good is a form of anarcho-communism. This makes me a political idealist, of sorts, but I manage to confuse this with a strong streak of pessimism and a general loathing towards the world and especially the human race, including myself. I'm an anarchist who doesn't think anarchism will ever occur on a large level because people are far too stupid and far too selfish to do what is best for everyone. When I am being less idealistic my main political fury goes against rich people, who I feel should recieve punitive taxes to help increase the standard of life for the lowest sector of society, and also at the standard of public transport in the United Kingdom today, both buses and railways are over-priced and verge on shoddy.
I also have a tendency for saying that everything is either over or under-rated. This annoys Paul, so I make sure I don't stop it.