If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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| — | Malcolm X |
Corrupt Canadian Banking System.mp4 (by facing42)
Popocatepetl volcano spews glowing rock, tower of ash near Mexico City
(via Popocatepetl volcano spews glowing rock, tower of ash near Mexico City - The Washington Post)
A Call to Minds
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -Issac Asimov
While I type this thought, I’m sure many of you are perusing the web reading the next bit of juicy celebrity gossip, sports scores/highlights, world news delivered to your homepage, and all the other daily distractions we’ve become immune and content with. I’m not going to act as if I’m not guilty of it as well. It’s something we’ve all grown accustom to over the years.
One thing a lot of people don’t think about while surfing the daily news is, where is this news coming from? While I won’t go into the conspiracies surrounding these sources and their end goals. I think it’s important for people to start researching the facts that are being presented to them as solid news. With no questions coming from the public, why would the powers that be give any thought as to what we really think or feel? People go day in and out, assuming that these power holders know what they’re doing and are handling it the best they can.
This ‘outsourcing’ of power has stripped us of not only our voice, but our sense of community. While everyone sits divided in their own space, taking in this filtered news as fact, they absorb and accept without question. Drawing conclusions, that mentally cross out whole sects of people that they’ve never had any experience with. If people started to make a little effort to check facts, most would be surprised where they land.
Most of us want the same basic things, happiness and a comfortable life. Taking the steps to inform yourself and share what you’ve learned with others is a timeless pastime we’ve forgotten and now substitute with a never-ending charade of falsifications being passed off as news. While at the same time, we run the gamut of ‘look over there’ news to keep us busy, while atrocities are being committed.
Turning a blind eye in the face of comfort will only last for so long. We’re all in this together and although the problems of the world may seem far from you now, they’re much closer than you’d expect. While I’m not here to preach any agenda to you, I’m encouraging you to take the power back and begin to educate yourself on what’s really happening around you.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. -Benjamin Disraeli
Financial well-being is simply not thinking about money you haven’t earned, to buy things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t like.
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| — | Deepak Chopra |
What is the great American sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of “concentrated indignation” as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which dislikes to have its comfort disturbed….The most shameless greed, the most sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of events. This is the great American sin.
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| — | Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic Monthly, October 1922 |
