It's funny, when I was younger, I always wondered why my friends got so involved.
politics, history, economics, debate, conflict.
that girl that wrecked me was like that. She cared about things, and I never understood, just tried to be supportive.
Yet now I find myself caring about things, talking with people, trying to educate them, and I realize partially why I tried not to care. I have no patience for people unwilling to listen. When they stop citing examples and reasons, and just start giving me middle school answers.
For some reason that I can't seem to grasp, the Olympics has pissed me off this year. The whole debacle with china, tibet, and the olympics is just insulting. Not that they've really ever been worth while, but still, I would say this is on par with the olympics when they were held in Nazi germany.
Tthe olympics are a gift to a country. The amount of political power, as well as money and jobs and economic bolstering that comes from the olympics is ridiculous, and not something china should be granted in my opinion.
People are being arrested, detained, and deported out of china for any kind of protest. They're being killed in tibet.
Protesters in the states are being assaulted, detained, and falsely charged. Not that I like brainwashing propaganda either, but what happened to the days when communism was a four letter word. Wy are our own being punished for speaking out against the wrongs of what used to be "THE ENEMY". Whom we now give all our jobs to.
I hate that communism is a four letter word. That was part of an argument I had today. My opponents argument boiled down to, Communism is evil because that's how it all turns out, even if it's great at the beginning, it was manipulated and used for evil, there for it is evil.
I pretty much quit then.
If an item or ideal is used for evil, it is therefor inherently evil..... apparently.
Pedophiles use ice cream trucks to lure children. Are ice cream trucks inherently evil?
edit:
I forgot the part of the argument that irked my the most.
This friend of mine whom I had the argument with is one of the few people I know going to college, and we always have conversations about going to college, and how I should, and how much better my life will be.
Well he turned this argument to that topic at one point. Saying that if I had a degree in political science and economics, he would be more apt to take me at my word.
He won't even consider facts and cited references, but he would forgo his entire opinion if I had a piece of paper.
Maybe if I got a degree I could role it up into a funnel and use it to shout over the rest of the morons who partied through a degree. Then again, it's a lot easier to be heard when most of them seem to be the ones serving me my coffee.
politics, history, economics, debate, conflict.
that girl that wrecked me was like that. She cared about things, and I never understood, just tried to be supportive.
Yet now I find myself caring about things, talking with people, trying to educate them, and I realize partially why I tried not to care. I have no patience for people unwilling to listen. When they stop citing examples and reasons, and just start giving me middle school answers.
For some reason that I can't seem to grasp, the Olympics has pissed me off this year. The whole debacle with china, tibet, and the olympics is just insulting. Not that they've really ever been worth while, but still, I would say this is on par with the olympics when they were held in Nazi germany.
Tthe olympics are a gift to a country. The amount of political power, as well as money and jobs and economic bolstering that comes from the olympics is ridiculous, and not something china should be granted in my opinion.
People are being arrested, detained, and deported out of china for any kind of protest. They're being killed in tibet.
Protesters in the states are being assaulted, detained, and falsely charged. Not that I like brainwashing propaganda either, but what happened to the days when communism was a four letter word. Wy are our own being punished for speaking out against the wrongs of what used to be "THE ENEMY". Whom we now give all our jobs to.
I hate that communism is a four letter word. That was part of an argument I had today. My opponents argument boiled down to, Communism is evil because that's how it all turns out, even if it's great at the beginning, it was manipulated and used for evil, there for it is evil.
I pretty much quit then.
If an item or ideal is used for evil, it is therefor inherently evil..... apparently.
Pedophiles use ice cream trucks to lure children. Are ice cream trucks inherently evil?
edit:
I forgot the part of the argument that irked my the most.
This friend of mine whom I had the argument with is one of the few people I know going to college, and we always have conversations about going to college, and how I should, and how much better my life will be.
Well he turned this argument to that topic at one point. Saying that if I had a degree in political science and economics, he would be more apt to take me at my word.
He won't even consider facts and cited references, but he would forgo his entire opinion if I had a piece of paper.
Maybe if I got a degree I could role it up into a funnel and use it to shout over the rest of the morons who partied through a degree. Then again, it's a lot easier to be heard when most of them seem to be the ones serving me my coffee.