Tuesday, January 15, 2002
what a crazy world we're living in...
i wish i had a big hat like jamiraquoi. i wish i was jamiraquoi. he is a pimp. great music. love it.
anyways, i was thinking the other day, saturday to be exact. i was sitting in the mud, planting trees, and pondering the state of the world we live in today. this, of course, was limited to american society. america is the world i live in, so it is just natural that this is the part i would be thinking of. i came to a few conclusions. 1) the world is really really fucked up. 2) there is nothing i can do about it. 3) the more i think about it, the more i really don't care that the world is fucked up, and that there is nothing i can do about it.
those were the general themes. i ended up dwelling on a few specific things, however. first, we tend to base our self worth on monitary success. based on this assumption, intelligence is punished in america. we have the smartest people in the country toiling away at these great projects for generally fairly low salaries. we have a nation that as far as i know is still cutting funding for scientific research. we have the tech sector laying off people in huge numbers. these are the smart people. they make a living, but not really that much more. we tend to reward raw physical talent, and with it stupidity, at least compared to the incredible minds we have at the other end of the spectrum. athletes making a quarter of a billion dollars over 10 years, while entire programs are cut because they are going to spend a tenth of that over twenty years. we have rappers living in huge beverly hills mansions with a garage full of crazy cars while much smarter and talented people are scrapping together mortage payments.
i was thinking about all this, and how depressing it can be. no wonder our education system is one of the worst in the civilized world. you guys went to high school. you guys saw the fancy astroturf stadiums, and the spiffy jerseys the football team had, while the science department had to force students to buy their own biology books, because there wasn't enough money in the budget. the fact that our PE class couldn't use the turf half the time, because they were afraid we would ruin it. the fact that we had our graduation at Juanita high school because they didn't want the chairs and the risers out on the field, because it would ruin the turf. bull shit. sports are bull shit. i have decided this. complete bull shit. but i don't really care. i follow them still. i get excited when the mariners are winning. i get pissed when the seahawks blow a game. i perpetuate this bull shit. my bad, my bad.
i don't want to talk about this anymore. i don't want to blog anymore, be back later today, hopefully
i wish i had a big hat like jamiraquoi. i wish i was jamiraquoi. he is a pimp. great music. love it.
anyways, i was thinking the other day, saturday to be exact. i was sitting in the mud, planting trees, and pondering the state of the world we live in today. this, of course, was limited to american society. america is the world i live in, so it is just natural that this is the part i would be thinking of. i came to a few conclusions. 1) the world is really really fucked up. 2) there is nothing i can do about it. 3) the more i think about it, the more i really don't care that the world is fucked up, and that there is nothing i can do about it.
those were the general themes. i ended up dwelling on a few specific things, however. first, we tend to base our self worth on monitary success. based on this assumption, intelligence is punished in america. we have the smartest people in the country toiling away at these great projects for generally fairly low salaries. we have a nation that as far as i know is still cutting funding for scientific research. we have the tech sector laying off people in huge numbers. these are the smart people. they make a living, but not really that much more. we tend to reward raw physical talent, and with it stupidity, at least compared to the incredible minds we have at the other end of the spectrum. athletes making a quarter of a billion dollars over 10 years, while entire programs are cut because they are going to spend a tenth of that over twenty years. we have rappers living in huge beverly hills mansions with a garage full of crazy cars while much smarter and talented people are scrapping together mortage payments.
i was thinking about all this, and how depressing it can be. no wonder our education system is one of the worst in the civilized world. you guys went to high school. you guys saw the fancy astroturf stadiums, and the spiffy jerseys the football team had, while the science department had to force students to buy their own biology books, because there wasn't enough money in the budget. the fact that our PE class couldn't use the turf half the time, because they were afraid we would ruin it. the fact that we had our graduation at Juanita high school because they didn't want the chairs and the risers out on the field, because it would ruin the turf. bull shit. sports are bull shit. i have decided this. complete bull shit. but i don't really care. i follow them still. i get excited when the mariners are winning. i get pissed when the seahawks blow a game. i perpetuate this bull shit. my bad, my bad.
i don't want to talk about this anymore. i don't want to blog anymore, be back later today, hopefully
