Wednesday, May 20, 2009
This I Believe
I believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we live. After that shocking and profound statement, dear reader, I have two options. After technically having completed my blog assignment, I can ramble, or I can explain myself. I guess, mostly due to a lack of rambling material, that I will explain myself. I think that life is only worth living when there is a real and constant danger of losing it. Without living on the edge of survival, there is no point. Right now, because of the systems set up by our society, I could survive doing absolutely nothing. I could sit around on my ass all day, taking a few hours to find some food for free at a food pantry, farmed by someone else, packaged by someone else, bought by someone else, and given to me for free. Even if I do work, I type numbers into a box and at the end of the day I am handed paper so I can drink water purified by someone else, live in a box built and maintained by someone else, eat food that was brought to me by someone else. Essentially, there is no purpose for me. I am not doing anything except living for others and by others. Only when I am literally hunted and hunting, escaping predators as I search for my own prey, living on the edge of death because I do everything, everything, by myself and for myself, only then am I living. This I believe.
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I must say that I am a bit confused with this. You seem to enjoy speaking in riddles and circumnavigating around your argument in the attempt to take more space. While the utilization of space seems to be the primary goal of an argument, as illustrated by my APUSH paper, in this circumstance it makes the argument seem weaker and less enthralling. The second part of your argument does not struggle with this, and is generally stronger than the first half of your blog.
Thank you for writing this JP, I agree entirely. It seems like people in this type of environment don't really live anymore, we simply exist. I think this is the reason that kids have become so, misguided in what is important. In an example i used in another comment, people buy 300 dollar sunglasses...that simply baffles me. People also could not survive in the wilderness, for the most part. We as humans are changing, we were born into nature, and now we've created an entirely new planet. WE could not surive as we did when we first came to be, and we've changed the planet to suit this.
I blame American Idol. I blame reality television. I blame the poor environments that the majority of our population lives in. I blame political correctness. I blame the unrealistic goals of liberal minded people who believe that no one should ever be offended. I blame fast food. I blame technology. I blame the test of time. I blame Thomas Edison for inventing the light bulb. I blame evolution. I blame humanity.
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