The Growing Question of Why?

V For Vendetta, “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”


Why?


Why is there such a deep craving for power and money?


When life was simple, there was no need for money. The idea of being better and above someone else was almost completely unheard of. Yes, there might have been one hunter who was stronger than the others in his clan and therefore lead the clan to food. That is not power.

Governments in many countries crave more power than what they already have. The governments that are in place to protect the people that live within their country are the same governments that set up powers to hurt the people of their country so they can make more money. Now a days, governments are in place to make money. However, many people live ignorant of that fact. Because someone from a high ranking company or from a government section say that everything is peachy fine, common people believe them and everything is alright.

Stated above is precisely what had happened to the people living in Hinkley, California. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG & E) paid for a doctor to tell certain families that the chromium in the water was not the cause of all of the health problems they were having. PG & E also had employees talk to the people in Hinkley that the chromium they were ingesting into their system was actually healthy for them. Until Erin Brockovich looked into the problem, everything for the people of Hinkley wasn't too bad. Yes, they all had medical problems, but it was not the fault of PG & E and so, everything was good.


All that I have left to say is with a question:


How come so many documentaries, songs, speeches are given about fighting back the power and yet so little is done to stop it?

Hints of change in power come up now and then, but really there is nothing big done. Over the past few weeks, I have learned a lot about the American government and systems and of human nature.

The environment is dying. Soon, it will be beyond repair. We know this. We know that if we do not do something now, then we will be caught up in our own demise. Why, if we know how to fix this, will no one do anything to stop it? The environment is about one to two hundred years from collapse. Health care in many countries means 'how much money can we suck out of people until they die and we discontinue them?'

People do not have homes to live in. Why should they have to pay to be able to have the basic human need? The same with water. People should not have to fear their water be poisoned and they should not have to pay for it. There is problem after problem with the world that we live in. We also have a solution that should prolong the life of humans and the planet. However, humans are prone to postponing solutions and letting someone else deal with it. But what can one say? Humans have become corrupt.

One of my high school teachers has a Masters in history. With the studies that she has done, mankind is due for another dark ages. It is something that has happened roughly every five hundred years of man's existence on Earth. In this time, the basics of life, the family as a solid unit become the focus of life. Time dedicated to the sciences and arts are cut back some. I feel that it is time. However, I feel that this dark age just may be the worst and the best that has ever passed. Without it, there's a chance that mankind just might die all together.







[This is excerpted from a paper that I wrote for Sociology]

Seeing Me, For How I Want To Be Seen

You know something. I'm kinda suprised. There are people out there that actually do know some things about me. They actually know how I feel on some issues and why I do some of the things I do and how I am in general. I had never thought that anyone did.

*Aside from a particular person I somewhat had this conversation with earlier.

Have any of you few readers, and by few I mean like three (that I'm aware of,) ever noticed my maturity level? Because I feel that it is higher than iI act at school. It's lower there because I get left out otherwise and I hate being left out. But when I'm at home or at someone else's house and we're talking about kinda important stuff, sometimes I feel like I get kinda deep into what I say. Now, this doesn't always happen, mind you, but it does tend to now and then.

*This is going to be a very sketchily written blog. I'm tired, but feel the need to write something, so I'll kinda be jumping over things.*

Here's something that REALLY IRRITATES ME! Oh my gosh! You do something and you think that it's just something for fun and games and then someone get's really mad at you. Ok. And then they WON'T TELL YOU ANYTHING! Ok, so what am I supposed to do. I just hurt you in some way and don't know how I did. WHY WON'T YOU TELL ME! Or when someone you know has a problem against you and your character and they won't tell you why they don't like you or what that itch is in their side. Ok, so if you have a problem with me, why won't you tell me so that I can fix it in some way to make you feel better?

What's the point in keeping these things to yourself? Really, they don't help the world turn smoother in ANY way. AT ALL.

What bugs me the most is that it's really easy, or kinda easy, for me to get a gist of how people feel towards me. Whether they like me, hate is easy, whether they have and itch against me. So it's really annoying when they WON'T tell me a thing.

Wouldn't you find that annoying?

Oh arg! You know something that really annoys me. I'm too empathetic. I care too much about other people. I take on others problems and make them my own and worry and freak our and stress about things I shouldn't. But I do. I feel bad saying that I care too much about other people..

But it's true. I do deeply care about other people. Want to know what my reason is for going to university? To get an education that I can put back into the world so that I can help people in some way become better people or make the world a better place in which to live. That's the point, my reason and drive. Other than that, I don't see a point in going to school. That's the point of an education to me and that's what I intend to see it through to the end as.

So Much For a Good Relationship

Ok, so there's this guy and he's dating this girl that I know. They are 3 academic years apart. So, they're both in high school. She is a naive little girl who thinks she has the world on a leash and knows all there is to know about life. She has had a lot of relationships and not many of them had been all to positive. He wants to show her that there can be more to a relationship and it can be a very positive thing.





Here comes my problem with the situation.


With such an age gap and him going to university next, he is considered to be too old for this younger girl. Her parents found out about the relationship and sat him down to talk. They are not at all fond of the situation. They want them to break up. They do not like the situation that their daughter is in being in a relationship with this older boy. The boy knows this, and is just about throwing what the parents think out the window. He "cares" too much about her. He would do "anything" for her, but will not show her that she needs to respect what her parents think and her parents descisions.

It has only been about a month and a half that they have been together and he "loves" her, Oh so much. SHE'S ONLY FOURTEEN! Does anyone else see a problem there? Other than me? What he feels is not love for her, but instead I deeply care about you. There is a BIG difference there!

Her last boyfriend was talking bad about her today. Her "lover" went over to her house and I was later told that if he see him, he is going to put his fist in the back of that boys nose. Although he knows full well her parents will greatly disapprove of him anymore. He wants to show her a good relationship, but what good is coming out of it. Her parents are not liking the way that she treats them. She takes almost no responsibility for anything in her family or the home. She's starting to get into the habit of liying to her parents or not telling them the full truth so that she can go see him.

He was a friend of mine, but with the way the "relationship" is going. I'm not liking it at all. Can anyone agree with me? I feel that there is something vastly wrong with some of the youth in the world today. They are sinister, deceiving and misheivious just so they can get what they want or be "cool."







Someone please agree with me.