He calls himself an activist
but where is the activist at without the act?
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Ignorance and fear
A few day's ago in health class, a fellow student asked me "Nolan, why do you like to read." Being absorbed in my book I simply responded, "I enjoy it." Looking back on it now, I should have responded with "Why do you consent to live in ignorance and fear?"
Ignorance is the state in which a person lacks knowledge, sophistication or intelligence. I do not really see how any one can knowingly be ignorant and not want to do something about it. However, it is something I see everyday. People just do not seem to care, and it is not something new. I see plenty of adults who have lived their whole lives in ignorance. Still, I wonder is that any way to live? It is clear that we have different goals and thought processes.
Do people fear knowledge? Well I would hope not. What I see is that people fear being different, and they fear working for something. They prefer to take the easy way out. They choose to subject their selves to fear of God, fear of change and fear of truth. I do not get it, and perhaps I never will.
Knowledge is our strongest strong point, and our weakest weak point, because with knowledge comes ignorance. We were given the power to think, it would be a shame not to use it. Promote thought, promote change.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Incoherent Fairness.
For this blog I first need to fill you in on a little bit about me. My girlfriend's uncle is in the army, and was recently stationed in Iraq, when he came back he brought a bracelet of spent shells. This bracelet was too big for her to wear, so she let’s me wear it. I wore it nearly everyday. One day some teacher/administrator told me not to wear it any more. This teacher/administrator had actually joked with me about them being live and going off in my eyes, so when he told me to take them off and never wear them again, I wasn’t sure whether or not if he was joking. I continued to wear them and one day he saw them and took them away from me. I spent 3 days after school trying to track him down to get them, and finally got them from the principle.
Now here is where today’s subject rises. Should people be allowed to do something, that others are not allowed to, because of culture/religion? Why are ideologies passed down through a religion any more important than those that are formed on ones own or passed down by any other means? My view is that censoring things is wrong, yet I would have to cover the word "Fuck" on a t-shirt because there is a school rule against profanity. However, a Muslim is allowed to wear a head garment, while there is a school rule against wearing hats, head bands, bandannas or anything of the sort. In fact, the veils are not even a religious ideology as much as they are a cultural thing. It never says that woman have to wear them in the Quran. Yet they are allowed too in school. If the bullet bracelet was a part of my religion/culture would I then be allowed to wear them? If some ones culture had them carrying a knife/gun around all the time would school let them do that? Of course not, they would say veils don’t hurt any one, well neither does the word fuck, neither does a hat, and neither do spent shells.
What we see here is contradictory rules in the school system, something looked at from one point of view as fair, is very unfair, and one sided from the other. This, my friend, is what out entire world is based of off. This is incoherent fairness at its best.
Now here is where today’s subject rises. Should people be allowed to do something, that others are not allowed to, because of culture/religion? Why are ideologies passed down through a religion any more important than those that are formed on ones own or passed down by any other means? My view is that censoring things is wrong, yet I would have to cover the word "Fuck" on a t-shirt because there is a school rule against profanity. However, a Muslim is allowed to wear a head garment, while there is a school rule against wearing hats, head bands, bandannas or anything of the sort. In fact, the veils are not even a religious ideology as much as they are a cultural thing. It never says that woman have to wear them in the Quran. Yet they are allowed too in school. If the bullet bracelet was a part of my religion/culture would I then be allowed to wear them? If some ones culture had them carrying a knife/gun around all the time would school let them do that? Of course not, they would say veils don’t hurt any one, well neither does the word fuck, neither does a hat, and neither do spent shells.
What we see here is contradictory rules in the school system, something looked at from one point of view as fair, is very unfair, and one sided from the other. This, my friend, is what out entire world is based of off. This is incoherent fairness at its best.
The Start.
Most people start their blogs with a little bit about them selves. They usually talk about who they are. However, in this blog who I am is of little importance in comparison to what I am and what I stand for. What I am is a human, who chooses to think using his mind, to formulate ideas, to search for the truth, and to do all of this using logic and reasoning. This country, or this world rather, needs more than a human, it needs change. The purpose of this blog is to not only inform you, but also to open your eyes on things that rarely are brought up in day-to-day conversation. The sum of our parts is greater than us as a whole. I am just one part in the plan for change, one gear in the machine of truth. What this machine really needs is you.
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