“Success” in America has less to do with actual talent than any time in recent history. We have forsaken competence, responsibility and intelligence in our country and replaced those attributes with shallow illusions of each. It has been all around me lately in my workplace, in popular entertainment, and watching the government in action. [...]
What is it about music that makes people say they are interested in all types and really “don’t like any specific style”? A guaranteed response from anyone who you ask “What type of music do you like?”, will be, “Nothing specific really, I like everything except maybe X style and Y style of music.” No other [...]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/carter.torture/index.html Finally, a sane person saying sane things. Now to see if anyone will listen to him. American agents are torturing people. Period. End of statement. The fact that Americans are not vocal in opposition to this is disheartening. Hopefully more influential people will speak out to this fact and things can be changed. At [...]
http://www.architecture2030.org/current_situation/coastal_impact.html I showed this to some friends and the first thing that they said was, “I wonder what that would do to the economy”. The first reaction that most people are trained to respond with to this type of ominous environmental information is by relating the situation to money. Apparently that is going to be the only way to [...]