surprise surprise the man that was on everyones t-shirt won. And he gave his speech like he was suppouse to. And it sounded like every other speech. I really dont listen to much to these kinds of speechs. All they talk about is how the new president wants to change the country. its rare that the president actually lives up to the standards he sets for him self. unforetunetly the standards are already high for obama.
Like always he talked about peace. he talked about helping all the smaller countries of the world as if we are gonna stop exploitting them some day. He talked about the working class. while im glad they got special attention i dont see any strong plans for them. it seems that a meaningful life is one where people help the smaller people.
I have no reflection on his speech because there is nothing to relfect on. of course it sounds like he will really make a change, thats the point of the speech. all that shows is that he hired some good speech writters. I believe strongly that actions speak louder then words, and i look foward to reflecting on his actions.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
kindergardeners
dear kindergardeners.
hurry up and finish your cookies because if you can understand what im about to say it can change your life. In afew years you will begin to be fed propoganda that tells you that you are powerless. let me give you some examples. when your whole class wants to go to the playground but your teacher says no because its math time. your teacher will try to control the whole class just because she is a teacher and you are a student. You dont have to take this. there is nothing stopping you from leaving. start thinking of those orders of what to do more like suggestions. If you gain these morals you will grow up to stand up for what you think is right instead of falling in line.
I bet you have heard if you have nothing nice to say dont say anything at all, ignore that. if someone is being mean, tell him or her. feel free to say shut up stupid. this idea of always being nice will only lead to you not being able to tell people who are doing something wronge (like the government) to cut that shit out. You need to learn how to get people to stop doing what ever you dont want them doing.
Your parents/teachers are not always right. I bet you are often told you are wrong and the only reason they give is that you are younger and you dont know better. Dont listen to that. that will only lead to you thinking that who ever is in power is always right. you need to learn how to question things and how to keep talking even when you are told to shut up.
Dont snitch. learn how to take matters into your own hands. you are probably told that when some one does something wrong to tell a teacher, fuck that. when some one is bothering you deal with it your self. learn how to independent. when you grow up there wont always be someone to tell, you will get picked on by people in power. if you learn to be independent you can deal with these people, if you learn to tell the teacher and the day comes where the teacher figure is picking on you, you wont know what to do because there is no one you can snitch to.
the teachers dont always do whats best for you. Did you ever notice that nap time went alittle longer then you wanted, or play time in the playground was alittle shorter on cold days. some times people in power sacrafice things in your life to make them happy. this happens more and more when there is a large number of you, like a school or country, and the person in power doesnt know you as well and doesnt mind taking things away from you. learn how to tell this is happening in hopes that you may find a way to stop it.
hurry up and finish your cookies because if you can understand what im about to say it can change your life. In afew years you will begin to be fed propoganda that tells you that you are powerless. let me give you some examples. when your whole class wants to go to the playground but your teacher says no because its math time. your teacher will try to control the whole class just because she is a teacher and you are a student. You dont have to take this. there is nothing stopping you from leaving. start thinking of those orders of what to do more like suggestions. If you gain these morals you will grow up to stand up for what you think is right instead of falling in line.
I bet you have heard if you have nothing nice to say dont say anything at all, ignore that. if someone is being mean, tell him or her. feel free to say shut up stupid. this idea of always being nice will only lead to you not being able to tell people who are doing something wronge (like the government) to cut that shit out. You need to learn how to get people to stop doing what ever you dont want them doing.
Your parents/teachers are not always right. I bet you are often told you are wrong and the only reason they give is that you are younger and you dont know better. Dont listen to that. that will only lead to you thinking that who ever is in power is always right. you need to learn how to question things and how to keep talking even when you are told to shut up.
Dont snitch. learn how to take matters into your own hands. you are probably told that when some one does something wrong to tell a teacher, fuck that. when some one is bothering you deal with it your self. learn how to independent. when you grow up there wont always be someone to tell, you will get picked on by people in power. if you learn to be independent you can deal with these people, if you learn to tell the teacher and the day comes where the teacher figure is picking on you, you wont know what to do because there is no one you can snitch to.
the teachers dont always do whats best for you. Did you ever notice that nap time went alittle longer then you wanted, or play time in the playground was alittle shorter on cold days. some times people in power sacrafice things in your life to make them happy. this happens more and more when there is a large number of you, like a school or country, and the person in power doesnt know you as well and doesnt mind taking things away from you. learn how to tell this is happening in hopes that you may find a way to stop it.
dear joan
dear joan
how are you. Im doing well. I am currently taking a class on the meaning of life and i realized that you gtreatly shaped my life. Back in middle school you were my middle school director. you were also a closed mind puppet who was to busy trying to please the teacher and parents that you forgot about the kids. Time after time my friends and i would come to you with logical and 100% statements about how the teachers were horrible at their job. Not one time did you listen to us. it is because of you that i first realized that people in power only look out for other people in power. your lucky i was small, if some one tried to pull the shit you did today, there would be issues. If i ever have to see you again, i hope its through a scope.
fuck you
-dylan
how are you. Im doing well. I am currently taking a class on the meaning of life and i realized that you gtreatly shaped my life. Back in middle school you were my middle school director. you were also a closed mind puppet who was to busy trying to please the teacher and parents that you forgot about the kids. Time after time my friends and i would come to you with logical and 100% statements about how the teachers were horrible at their job. Not one time did you listen to us. it is because of you that i first realized that people in power only look out for other people in power. your lucky i was small, if some one tried to pull the shit you did today, there would be issues. If i ever have to see you again, i hope its through a scope.
fuck you
-dylan
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
april fools day
April fools day is a day of mischeif. It goes against the "sane" way of living. In normal day life we are told to not piss of anyone. we cant say or do anything that would offend a group of people, april fools day flips this. a strong message of april fools day is laugh at other peoples expence. It tells us that we should do what ever makes people laugh.
It is also a small version of anarcy. during this day we do what we want with no thought of consquence. This is what is meaningful; to do what we want, when we want. It's the ultimite form of freedom.
It is also a small version of anarcy. during this day we do what we want with no thought of consquence. This is what is meaningful; to do what we want, when we want. It's the ultimite form of freedom.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
winter break
The majority of what i did over break i will not write about so i can still plead the 5th. Besides that i spent alot of the time skatting and chillen with friends. christmas day was spent in new jersey with family. New years was spent with friends in williamsburg. and all it was a chill break.
Looking back i think of two things. first is the saying "we are the people our parents warned us about" Some of things i did my parents warned me against when i was younge. this of course means they didnt give me the idea that it was meaningful, i guess that means i learned it from society. thats nice of them to teach me such great things.
the second thing i thought of was how practiced the gift thing is. everyone has to get some one something. the only time where i ever see my aunt is on x-mas when she gives me a $50 gift card to barnes and nobel. i personaly would be fine is she didnt give me anything, especially since i didnt give her anything. someone tells us that aunts give presents to neifes that they never see.
Looking back i think of two things. first is the saying "we are the people our parents warned us about" Some of things i did my parents warned me against when i was younge. this of course means they didnt give me the idea that it was meaningful, i guess that means i learned it from society. thats nice of them to teach me such great things.
the second thing i thought of was how practiced the gift thing is. everyone has to get some one something. the only time where i ever see my aunt is on x-mas when she gives me a $50 gift card to barnes and nobel. i personaly would be fine is she didnt give me anything, especially since i didnt give her anything. someone tells us that aunts give presents to neifes that they never see.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
marginal messages
there are three types of messages. the first coperate messages. These are messages, such as money makes you happy, that are mainstream and are being yelled at you from every tv show and ad. the second type are prohibited messages, such as things wil not get better, that will never be shared by corperations. the third is marginal. these messages you dont always see. While they arent as broadcasted as coperate messages, they can sometimes be seen in movies and tv shows. This can include such messages as challenge athority.
A strong example of marginal messages can be seen in the 1999 movie Fight Club. The movie tells the story of a man who starts off with an unhappy life. he is a slave to the ikea catolog and is more focoused on his materail possesions then anything else. but after having his apartment explode he meets a man named Tyler Durdan who shows him a life with out depenency on material goods. Tyler's view on life is that life should not be perfect "let the chips fall where they may". He thinks that the dependency of material goods is a women thing and that if you care to much about what you own you are a bitch. This is shown with the constant connection to material goods and having your balls cut off. He claims that martha stuert is "polishing the brass on the titanic its all going down." The message is that we are so focoused on things that we think will make our lives better but we are just letting our self be owned.
This is the total opposite of coperate messages which usually say material things will make you happy. The whole idea that the pursuite of "shit we dont need" is preventing our self from being happy is very revolutionary. unfortunetly this movie could be an attempt to control us even more. Since this idea is new, revolutionary, and logical people want to identify with it. To do that they buy the movie on dvd, get fight club posters and buy fight club t-shirts. Coperations are selling you everything, even anti-corperation ideas.
A strong example of marginal messages can be seen in the 1999 movie Fight Club. The movie tells the story of a man who starts off with an unhappy life. he is a slave to the ikea catolog and is more focoused on his materail possesions then anything else. but after having his apartment explode he meets a man named Tyler Durdan who shows him a life with out depenency on material goods. Tyler's view on life is that life should not be perfect "let the chips fall where they may". He thinks that the dependency of material goods is a women thing and that if you care to much about what you own you are a bitch. This is shown with the constant connection to material goods and having your balls cut off. He claims that martha stuert is "polishing the brass on the titanic its all going down." The message is that we are so focoused on things that we think will make our lives better but we are just letting our self be owned.
This is the total opposite of coperate messages which usually say material things will make you happy. The whole idea that the pursuite of "shit we dont need" is preventing our self from being happy is very revolutionary. unfortunetly this movie could be an attempt to control us even more. Since this idea is new, revolutionary, and logical people want to identify with it. To do that they buy the movie on dvd, get fight club posters and buy fight club t-shirts. Coperations are selling you everything, even anti-corperation ideas.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Walmart worker trampled
I am speechless at the death of the walmart worker. I personally am not materalistic and i find it hard to see how people can be. This being said i find it outragous that people would go so crazy over some sales. I find it hard to believe that not only did people kill a man, but after he was dead they kept shopping. When the store said they were closing because some one died people got angry because they were still shopping. These people had put money saving deals over a human life.
We truelly are the ultimet consumer.
I am struggling to understand the reason for such madness. The world is full of exploitation, greed, corrupt and dirty governments, and lack of understand for what is really important. "Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"
We truelly are the ultimet consumer.
I am struggling to understand the reason for such madness. The world is full of exploitation, greed, corrupt and dirty governments, and lack of understand for what is really important. "Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"
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