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]

Living On The Edge

Sitting alone on the edge of a battlefield. You're there, waiting. The fighting hasn't begun, but you can feel it. You want to battle to begin so this feeling can flee. Sitting. Waiting. Seeing the fear on the faces of those around you. Sensing what will come to pass in time after you have been through the battle.

But it's a battle that never seems to come. You sit and wait. Every day it feels like it draws closer when it doesn't budge. The angst and the torture of the wait slowly kill you on the inside.


There is nothing you can do.

No where that you can run.

The feeling haunts you deep inside.

It doesn't go away.


The longer the feeling stays, the more you begin to hate yourself. You're so tense for waiting for the battle to begin that you begin to let it out slowly. You don't realise what you are doing until it begins to really affect those around you.

They say that they understand, but you see the pain in their eyes at your actions. You feel even more dragged away from comfort as those who are close to you begin to drift away. You hate yourself for pushing them away, even if they don't realise it is you that causes them to do so.






The only way for your pain to end is for the battle to begin.

Ponderings

There comes a time in a person's life where the need to write, the need to express and the need to show comoes to play. Thoughts run through your mind and yet you find yourself stuck with the feeling of no words. Nothing dares to come to your lips or your finger tips.

A song.

Two songs.

Songs hold the key. There is beauty in music because it gives words to those who cannot speak. Or, those like myself at this time, who find themselves at a lack of words.



"Another Heart Calls"
All-American Rejects

"How In The World"
Family Force 5

"Ain't No Reason"
Brett Dennen

"White Houses"
Vanessa Carlton

"Keep Holding On"
Avril Lavigne

"Whiskey Lullaby"
Brad Paisley



Each song a different meaning and yet I feel like all of them. Can it really be true?

Thoughts.
Phrases.

Words.
Emotions.

Everything runs so fast I catch it as a whisper in my ear. I want to grab a hold of them and hold tight. I want to capture the meaning to put it to words.

And yet....


They escape me...

Post-Appocalypse...Are We Due?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a post-appocalyptic world?

To live by defense.

To only be able to survive by living off the land.

The use of modern technology truly a luxury.

To be forced to work in cooperation with those around you.

To survive.

There is a big difference in surviving and living. However, in todays world, it seems like we don't really live. To live is to take in as many experiences as the world will offer us. It is to live, laugh, love, cry, be frustrated, angered, to try, to achieve, and in the end, to die.

But today, it seems like all that people do is live by possession. People get angry with their parents because they can't go to "THE" party. Rather, they should make the attempt to understand why.

We don't work together as a community anymore. People live in such close quarters with each other and have such easy access to each other that they begin to not care about those around them. Is it possible to work in cooperation with people? To discover who they are as a person and realise how who they are balances out who we are.

Living in a post-appocalyptic world, people would be forced to work together. The family unit would become tighter and more important to an individual. Money and possessions would diminish. If you had to work to be able to survive, there would be little time for the collection of items that serve little purpose other than to entertain.

If you lived in a mini comunity of only thirty people, which would you rather be doing one night: 1) Listening to music on a dying iPod OR 2) Sit around a bon fire, telling stories, creating music, dancing, and laughing.

The older civilisation gets, the more people try to control each other. The less freedom we have. Humans should be allowed to be free to roam to walk to run around the world and enjoy the way that life was created for us. But instead, control becomes more important. Governments control us. Schools control us. Towns, provinces, states, counties, courts, people everything makes an attempt to take some form of control over us.

But why? Why do we have to be controlled in order to obtain some sort of happiness? Is it because we have become out of control? Maybe. I feel like it is technology.

Technology has made it possible for people to be able to live so easily these days. No longer do we have to hunt and forage. No longer do we have to skin and cut up an animal for food. No longer do we have to spend long hot days toiling on a feild to be able to eat that night. It's simply a matter of going down to the store to get food. There's no appreciation left in the simplicity of eating. I find it almost a shame.

To be thankful to simply eat.

There are simplicities all around us:

The birth of a child.

The smile of a friend.

The understanding of a handshake.

The love in a kiss.

The beauty in looking into someone's eyes.

The sweet song of the wind.

The rush of running through the woods.

The energy of swimming in a river.

The warmth of optimism.

Those are all things in my ever growing list that I love. I live for the simplicities in life and wish that at times, technology didn't exist. I'd be able to live freely. Today, people are all about the big things in life. They forget about the way that things are in their basic forms.

Everything is basic.

We just make it more difficult.

If we lived post-appocalyptic, maybe people would be able to understand what really counts. Maybe they'd be able to see the simplicities that we truly live by...