03.06.08

i found today's class enlightening and informative. ashley striked me
as very intelligent and insightful and she was also very articulate and
good at vocalizing her thoughts which i thought made her lesson very
interesting. i have a hungry appetitie for learning about the reality
and truth of our government rather than the censored, mainstream
bullshit that we are usually fed through the media. although the truth
is hideous and appalling, i think it is very important that we as
citizens know what is going on behind the closed doors of the powerful
elite. whilst i think the regular nightly news can be factual and
informaive, there are definitely a lot of extremely relevant, crucial,
and serious stories that are not covered and made accesible for general
public knowledge. adam had mentioned the fact that there is a huge
disconnect between consumption and the consequences of consumption, and
that most consumers are completly oblivious to the negative effects
that their actions produce. if people were held accountable for the
wrongdoings that their actions perpetuate, or even made aware of the
dire circumstances, then i think the world would be a completely
different place. i think we are very good at creating problems and then
pushing them aside and dealing with them only when it is completely
necessary. the toxic and hazardous e-waste that we ship to other
countries still causes the same damage to our enviornment; it still
releases poisonous gases into our atmosphere and devastates the land,
yet we do not find other solutions. i guess the logic there is "out of
sight, out of mind."