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Wow, just wow What are we becoming?

October 18, 2006 Posted by mitch | thoughts | 0 Comments

I'm refering to a post about a school thats banning the game of "tag" and other contact games children might like to play during recess the story is linked up on slashdot. I mean really... what is this world comming to? Well, not really the world, but the US... and from what I've heard... England. We both seem to be responding to this notion that these things are bad for children. I, however, believe that this will screw them up even more, and be bad for the economy as a whole. "Playing it safe" is not a mantra that should be followed in all circumstances. This stifles creativity, individuality, and ingenuity. In order to advance as an individual, and as a society, you need people that are free thinkers, you need people that will "think outside the box", they need to challenge the system. How are they supposed to do this when adults have pre-thought their paths for them every step they make? I understand that they are only trying to protect them from getting hurt, but that is all part of life. There is pain in life, and if you protect them from making the little mistakes here and there preventing them from having to deal with minor consequences of those mistakes, what happens when the big ones come along? Or it then becomes their responcibility to govern others? (such as they themselves becoming parents)

Anything that stops or tries to prevent these problems, inhibits free thinking which will become a very bad thing. Staying aware and growing with the world around you is the only thing that will keep us alive. We need to change and adapt to the changing world around us, or become extinct. It is the way the world is, and the way it always has been.

Questioning, and challenging the world around me, the "norms" so to speak. Growing and changing as I learn more about the world around me, not immediately trusting anything until I've looked into it enough to make a decision about it. I don't know of any other way to really live to be honest. Doing anything less makes you a lemming, with no right to complain and no right to offer guidance, and not much of a life in the first place.

The Coming Elections

October 5, 2006 Posted by mitch | politics | 0 Comments

Thats right, they're comming, if you hadn't noticed... gas prices are falling, and the dirt is being dug up on both sides of the Democrat and Republican fenses.  I've followed politics for the last couple years, not extensively because there's only so much my nerves and stomach can take, and up until recently I've wondered why should I even bother with it.  They all seem to sell their soles to the highest bidder and make compromises, giving up something important to gain some political capital.  It is this squabling that has kept me from even wanting to vote, because I thought they all were dealing with two faces(at the very least).  It has to stop.  Its time we get people in office that know the circumstances that this nation was founded on, which is also the very reason for its greatness.  Personal beliefs do *NOT* have any place in making descisions for this country.  I don't care what religion you are, their rules should not be represented in bills to be put into law.  It is supposed to be the land of the free, and have justice for all.  Not just the few we choose, not just Americans, every single human being on this planet.  I have been looking and waiting for a candidate that understands these very simple things, things that were taught in grade school here in the US.  I have finally found one, and as such, I've actually registered to vote for the coming elections and will be voting for Pete Ashdown and he just wrote an excelent blog on just what I'm talking about.