I think it is funny that:

  • if someone doesn’t eat a lot of meat they are automatically labeled a tree-hugging-hippy-left-winger.
  • if someone eats organic food, they are automatically labeled a new-age-hippy.
  • if someone doesn’t agree with the conservative fringe right wingers, they are automatically labeled a left-wing-liberal.
  • if someone ‘believes’ (lol - as if it is a faith based decision!) in global warming or cares about their effect on the environment, they are a crazy-tree-hugging-left-wing-liberal-hippy.

I guess I always just considered myself ‘informed‘ until now. I care about my health. Nutrition is important to me, especially as a mother. I care about the negative impact I have or might have on my environment, whether it be social or natural. I try to positively impact those I come in contact with. I’m not religious. I not only tolerate (I hate this. ‘Tolerate’ is such a nasty word here) other cultures, but I respect them and love learning more about them, so much so that I embrace as much philosophy/practice from other cultures as I see fit to apply to my own life (insofar as adopting them might bring a positive influence to my life or those around me).

Look, I don’t care what anyone thinks about me. You can ‘judge’ me all day long and I’m just going to laugh in your face. I want to be the best me I can be. I know that by keeping myself healthy, mentally, physically, and intellectually, I am doing myself a favor along with everyone around me.

There is nothing ‘informed’ about making the decision to fill your body with garbage that advertisers call ‘food’. There is nothing ‘informed‘ about trashing the hell out of our environment and then wondering WHY bad things happen (climate change, oil spill, pesticide poisonings, lead poisonings, etc). There is nothing ‘informed’ about listening to editorialized media and adopting your stance on government/politics based on someone else spewing their opinion of events.

I’m not a socialist. I’m not an anarchist. I’m not a left-winger. I’m not a LABEL.

I care about education. I attribute the vast majority of the epic life failure of people not being ‘informed’ to substandard education. Somewhere something has gone wrong. People have lost the ability to think for themselves, and to take the initiative to FIND THINGS OUT on their own. I think health care is important and that everyone should have access to it (hello - even ancient ROME had prioritized healthcare and education). I’m not saying I know the right way to make these things happen or work, but I sure and hell know that sitting around doing NOTHING isn’t going to get us closer to anything positive!

I’ve always considered myself MODERATE. Not just concerning politics, but in all aspects of life. My dad always repeated the phrase ‘Moderation is the key to everything.’ I think this is accurate for most things. This isn’t me being a hippy. This isn’t me taking away guns, killing babies (gasp!), preventing you from going to heaven, or hugging trees. This is me saying that if people lack the education to know the difference between MODERATION and EXTREMISM, the status quo is what we get. It’s sad to know that a whole world of information is at our finger tips, but so many people can’t see the forest for the trees. Where we should see unbiased honest research completed, we see uninformed, barely literate people posting grossly unfounded opinions as fact and propagating failure left and right.

The world wide web has essentially made the world smaller. To me, this should provide an environment conducive to the propagation of new ideas, the sharing of old ideas, sharing and exploring knowledge/truth, and ultimately building a universally human bond with each other that leads to greater knowledge and understanding for everyone.

Why does it seem like our current reality is the antithesis of anything positive technology could have provided human culture? I mean, look at World of Warcraft. Millions of people all of the world in hundreds of countries play the same damn game and love it. We are not so god damn different from each other! Stop playing stupid games, everyone! Leave your cliquey, judgmental alter ego back in junior high where it belongs and come to the party with the big kids, please.

There is nothing ‘trendy’ about not giving a damn. It’s never been fashionable or looked up to. To quote myself (lol - who else?) “If you put as much effort into those items as your do into self deluded whining, your apathetic unhappiness could turn into raging dissent and stir some fight inside of you. BLEH. It all reminds me of a bunch of the saddest little amoebas EVER CREATED, just morphing around with sad fucking looks on their sad faceless amoeba face-places.”

There is nothing ‘intellectual’ about being a racist conservative douchebag who’s political views mirror those of rich old white fat cats, even though, in practice, the policies those views support are usually detrimental to said douchebag. It doesn’t make you look informed, classy, rich, or smart to quote pundit garbage. It makes you look like a stupid lazy douchebag, so get a new hobby.

Get an opinion based in reality. Everyone thinks that they cannot influence change. Well, the majority have been ‘influencing’ failure long enough. Something’s gotta give.