1.4 All Together Now

Tonight was the Oscars.  I saw Al Gore on there, with Leo DiCaprio.  Seeing Al Gore and knowing everything behind what he’s doing really got me thinking, the world could definitely be a better place if we all went green.  It’s not really that much more expensive to live green.  It may actually be a lot cheaper to do so.  By doing things differently, we can save the Earth, save ourselves and save money.  I know there is a ton of criticizm on Al Gore’s ideas and views.  Still, I think he is a visionary.

Thinking about Al Gore gets me thinking about the movie The Corporation, which I can say is one of the most influential movies I have ever seen.   If you’ve never seen it, you must.  It tells about how corporations have changed, and pretty much ruined, society as a whole.  Anyway, the corelation between Al Gore and this movie, to me, is remarkable.  The general corporation has a big effect on our world.  It produces immense amounts of polutants, harms our world in many other ways, and squeezes every last buck it can.

Anyway, what I’m getting to is that every person needs to stand up against things that they feel are wrong.  Al Gore is doing this, the people involved in the movie did this.  It all has to start somewhere, so why not you?

1.3 Don’t Bother Me

The idea of the isolation of a person has always been interesting to me.  People isolate themselves all the time.  People are isolated all the time, as well.  Why do we do such things to ourselves or others?  Some people become depressed or hate the world around them and isolate themselves.  Some people are sent to jail or exiled and end up isolated.

I will admit that I do isolating myself some time.  I once did it because I was quite depressed, but now I do it as a sense of relaxing and enjoying different things.  Things such as music or writing or thoughts in my mind are enjoyed.  Some times I isolate myself just to get away from the world.  It’s a little piece of “heaven” to me.  It’s a time where there’s nothing that can go wrong any where.  Isolation can be nice.  Still, I’d rather have people around me than be isolated the rest of my life.

1.2 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

The reading week break is upon me all ready.  This year seems to be just flying by.  It’s only like a month and a half of classes left.  I cannot believe it.  Soon this year will be over.

Now, to my real post.  Tonight I was playing a game and I got to talking with this lady from Texas.  We talked about a lot of different things.  One of the scarier things we talked about was the future of this world and the wars we will all be fighting in.  Things have been ugly in the Middle East for many years now.  It looks like things are only going to get worse there.  You have the whole Iraq thing, plus Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, etc. all in uncertainty.  Some of them have nuclear capabilities.  They also have the ability to use this technology for any reason necessary.  With the growing tension between several of these countries, plus pressure from the United States on several of these countries, things look to eventual come to a head and explode.  Still, this is only the beginning of what may come to be.  There’s still China and Korea who pose a threat to the United States, and therefore the world (as we’re supposed to believe).  Both posess nuclear capabilities plus long range balistic missles, which supposedly can hit the west coast of the US.  This is definitely not good news for the world.  China’s mission, as a country, is to control the world.  So, it’s only inevitable that something happens soon by them.  We may all be in a fight for our livelyhood, for our freedom, and our lives sooner than you may think.

1.1 You Never Give Me Your Money

I recently realized that I haven’t posted anything for a while. I do know that I do not have that many people who read this. Still, I feel like I should write something on a regular basis.

Now, I recently had a conversation in regards to money and our world’s use of it. How do we bridge the gap between the rich or poor? Free trade? Get rid of money? Now, the idea of free trade for everyone, in theory, would be great. Still, the idea of no money for anyone does not work. Any time you have value of any sort placed on objects, you will those that have and those that have not. People will identify resources that are crucial to survival and hoard them. This gives us the people who have. Those that do not have these resources, or those that have not, need to trade to gain these resources. The trade goods may be things that they do not have an abundance of, but need to trade to get a certain resource. This takes from their lot and increases that of those that have. It’s a never ending cycle. Even if resources are spread across the board equally, you’ll have those that will go after resources that others own, most likely by violent means. You just cannot avoid it.

In a perfect world, everyone would have every thing that they would ever need right there in front of them, and no one would need more. Unfortunately, this will never happen. It’s sad but true. Those that are rich want to be richer and they take from the poor.