The future of our past is my personal slogan for 2008. I remember in 1995 thinking about what the “future” would look like, and in my future the year was 2000 and cars didn’t require steering wheels (I thought technology was going to move much faster in certain directions than it actually did.)
2000 came and went and we still manually steer our vehicles. Here we are in the year that I feel will make or break our country. What will this election show us about our government? That it’s for the people by the people, or that it’s for the corporations by the corporations?
I wonder how many people in 2008 will take personal responsibility for their buying power. How many people will choose to buy the $90 sweater that was handmade by an avid stich ‘n’ bitcher over the $10 sweater put together by the over-worked, under paid labor of an over-seas (likely minor) sweatshop worker? Will we see a change in our actions? Our beliefs? Will we demand action from our government? (cease of action in some cases)
Will someone PLEASE inform the war mongers that killing insures more killing?!
It burns my soul to hear peers of mine—people whom I still consider children—justifying the actions of our government. I look around my classrooms and I wonder how many of them have lost loved ones to this remarkably ridiculous war effort. How many of them have friends in Iraq…
It’s hard to be angry about something you know so little about. I’m not a hugely political person. I’m modest in my involvement with the government. I know, however, when something is incorrect… I should not be living in fear of my government and its actions.
Freeinternetpress.com is a pretty cool website. Basically, users can post news articles from any reputable news network along with their comments on the presentation of the subject at hand. I remember early ’07 reading an article about refurbishing inactive military bases around the country to make more jails; we don’t have enough jails.
Thus began the fear. Why do we need more jails? Multiple jails…throughout the country…with 50,000 person capacities? That sounds extreme (thinking about it, I wonder if the actual figure was 5,000 but, regardless) who will fill those jails? My guess…the little people…the poor people…the minorities…the activists that touch a little too close to the problems at hand. It makes me think of Hitler and internment camps.
I’ve gotten grossly off point, or neglected to ever get on point…
We have to look at what has happened and reflect on what is happening. So, in 2008 I want to learn as much as I can about our History as humans as a whole and thus get a better understanding of where we are and how we define where we are headed.
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I feel like you do about many things, except the steering wheels, which I never think will go away.
I've thought more and more about it since I've had my son, and I look at what he's wearing and where it came from and who made it. It's frustrating (and expensive) to track down the good and I'm not up to making it myself. Anyway, let's make the kid a better world.
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