Possibilities for the futrure

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65R1Q320100628

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062205391.html

Shut Down BP

So, British Petroleum has had a whole lot to do lately, understandably so. I mean they put the oil there. What about accountability; who’s to blame? Can you blame one person, or does the corporation take accountability on a whole? Well, if that’s the case then I don’t think it’s that harsh of a punishment for the whole corporation to be shut down, for good. I’m sorry BP, but you messed up real bad so we need to take your business and shut it down. That’s how it should be done, but it’s not. We live in a culture, or better yet we’ve allowed a culture to be created, were corporations don’t face the same accountability as you or I.

I’m not sure if many people know but this has happened before. Not the exact situation of course. But, in 2005, a British Petroleum refinery in Texas exploded killing 15 people and injuring 170 others

So 15 people died as a result, and with that came the reports that BP was ignoring safety protocol. They should have been shut down then, but instead they are allowed to record profits year after year.

Now this happens. And reports are starting to surface that BP once again ignored safety protocol. Like we haven’t learned our lesson about these corporate entities, they don’t care! Would you let someone throw garbage in your backyard and piss in your pool? I bet you wouldn’t. So, why do we let rich people do what they want? Yes, I said rich people, because British Petroleum is made of people. They aren’t some non-human entity. This is an example of greedy people doing horrible things to other people. Look at it no other way.

The Tiger and the Priest

I wrote a couple lines yesterday, and I can’t get the topic off my mind. Not Tiger Woods, or the fact that mainstream news is saturated with bullshit stories. I’m actually disturbed at how many people (including our trusted media) have reacted to the whole Tiger Woods “sex scandal” in comparison to other, actual sex scandals. Ok, Woods did do something wrong to his wife and kids, but lets be honest they will definitely survive. Lets face it, what he did was not against the law. And if you don’t think that most of these superstars are sex freaks then give your head a shake.
What I’m saying is that Woods and his family will get past this; but take the thousands of children sexually abused buy priests (our trusted men of god). Some of which the Pope knew about for years; these kids are ruined for the rest of their lives. And to make things even worse, no justice will be brought to all those children because of the social status or their molesters’. It’s disturbing how the public and the media react to the out of control sex drive of Tiger Woods, in comparison to the pedophilic nature of the sex drive of these priests. Doesn’t the public and, especially the media; don’t they want answers? Why do we want to know the specifics of Tiger Woods sex life and not the criminal activity of these “men of god” who committed…. ready for this…. sexual abuse. Woods didn’t abuse anyone; he had sex with a consenting adult. I think a few.
If the media really worked for the people and the common good, they would be relentless on this story. They wouldn’t stop until these priests were brought to justice, and that everyone was aware that the Vatican has been aiding and abiding criminal molesters. Not put Tiger Woods and all the other stupid Hollywood stories at the top of the news line up. The world is far too turbulent, and far too much need to know information gets past public knowledge because of how polluted our media is with the lives of the rich and famous. Lets leave that to TMZ.

There is a lot more going on in the world other then Tiger Woods.  Trust me!

Respect And Awe

I’ve been closely following the earthquake in Haiti.  I have been mostly following it on the CBC or CNN.  The coverage has mainly focused on the recovery effort by many countries.  And as I continue to watch I can’t help but realize how far we as humans distance ourselves from nature.  Of course it is a tragedy that thousands of lives are lost, but not even this mass loss of life at the hands of Mother Nature has built any sort of respect and awe for nature and all its power.  I have seen nothing on the news coverage that even sheds a little light on the fact that an earthquake is a very natural event; instead our mainstream “journalists” treat it as if it were a terrorist attack.
I’m sure that native people (whether they be from years ago or in the present), when witnessing a natural “disaster” like a tornado or a phenomenon like a solar eclipse, experienced it with wonder, respect and awe.
We, at least as a North American culture, can’t grasp the idea of something that can be as deadly as an earthquake as a normal and necessary occurrence.
We should remember the people who the earth has taken, but at the same time we should be humbled by such unforgiving power.
Instead, in mainstream news there is too much money to be made on the disaster scenario spin, when it comes to natural “disasters.”
And when profit of money is involved, respect is usually nowhere in site.

I thought this was fitting……

Just Let Me Pee

I’m sorry, but I have to say that the side of the globe that we call home, in North America, is one confusing and sometimes frustrating place.  When I turn on the T.V., the images that are projected in front of my eyes seem to be dictating what reality should be.  I mean, advertising from T.V. ads, to billboards on the street, to little cell phone ads posted in front of the men’s room urinal seem to want to just break me down.  And I get very frustrated with it.  I often think why so much of our resources and energy as a population is spent on things like producing and consuming ads.  It really makes me think that as a population we are being broken down mentally, not only by ads but the foods that are being advertised to us.

From the time when your mind is first developing into adulthood this breakdown of the mind has been allowed to occur.  For example, I’m 24 years old, and I remember when I was in high school about six or seven years ago, the halls were filled with candy and pop machines.  The cafeteria’s main dish was small, medium or large fries and students were hired to run a candy store in the school.  I can even remember when Mellow Yellow was reintroduced; they were giving away pop cans of the stuff in the school parking lot.  Doesn’t this seem a little odd knowing what that shit does to your body?  We are told many times over again that those high amounts of sugar and cholesterol do a number on our bodies physically, but what about mentally? The field of Psychology recognizes that something like chocolate is a psychoactive substance and just like coffee or any other illegal drug it literally influences our moods and the way we think.  So why is it all over the hallways of our schools?  It just doesn’t make sense to me that in the battle for territory between chocolate and fruit, chocolate won the schools.  It could have been any other way, but this is the path we’ve chosen to take.  This is the way things have been allowed to operate.

Advertising in schools is another thing that frustrates me.  I have to bring up one short thing.  I hate it when I go to use a college washroom, and the ads are right in front of my face on the wall above the urinal.  The advertising people know that that wall is the only way I can face at that most vulnerable moment.  So they feel that they really need to take advantage and seize the opportunity to shove another ad into my life.  Ads are everywhere.  I know it’s nothing new but even when we drive there are ads on the sides of the roads.  As if the ads on the radio weren’t enough.  If using your cell phone while driving is illegal, so should ads be on the roads.  Isn’t it all so distracting?  Not only from driving but the other things that really matter in life rather then cell phones and milk.

I also get this strange feeling in the pit of my gut that makes me think that the government (specifically that of the Canadian and American breed) isn’t doing what it can to achieve some kind of balance.  If the powers that be want the best for the masses why don’t they put a stop to the mental assault that each mind goes through everyday.  And free up that mental capacity for more productive, and just maybe more compassionate matters.  On the other hand, the idea of a population that is so wrapped up in the reality that has been created for us, to the point were we don’t ask questions (or the right ones for that matter), seems to be the way governments want it to be.  I’m just suggesting that maybe the governments that we give so much our power to everyday, isn’t working for the public anymore.  Is it too much to say, that as a “citizen” I feel that because of the state of western society, and not to mention many characteristics of our culture, that government just isn’t functional as it stands?

The only other perspective I can take on things is that maybe everything is going according to plan.  Maybe, like George Orwell portrayed, the government allows this constant meltdown of public consciousness for a reason.  Just maybe the elite of the western civilization is conditioning a society to never question authority, to never think outside that box and always do what they’re told.  Who knows what’s next, maybe the government will want to know our every move?  It’s just a perspective.

The World as I see it

I think everyone will agree that the world we have been born into is a very interesting and turbulent place.  It’s amazing that we are part of a civilization that is characterized by so much bullshit like war and corruption, that seems to be out of our individual control.  But that is the great illusion, it is very much in our control.  Because, we can’t individually stop war or all the things that make this world hard to digest, we have a responsibility to eachother.  A responibility to give and recieve respect with every thought we think.

Number One

Its morning, and I have lived another day.