We have even gone to the extent of taking human beings, just like ourselves, and selling them into slavery. That is the most inhumane action you can do, put a price on a life, but we put bigger prices on oil and land. How can these things be more important than just trying to live a happy life? They are not. I am ashamed of our species for killing its own kind. When will we smarten up as a global community and try to help everyone live a decent life and pursue an education. As humans, we have goals and motives that we want to chase. We want to become something greater than an average human, but we cut each other down and slow progress tremendously. Nothing can be greater than a whole world coming to each other’s aid and providing a productive life for everyone, such as the idea of world peace. Maybe one day we will wise up, but until then, I will sit back and watch millions be killed over pointless situations. The only thing I can hope for is that I do not get sucked in to this corruption and murder another human being who is just trying to defend its rights to be free and live peacefully the way they want it to be.
This video sums up a good portion of human history. No words are needed to describe the violence throughout history. People have been fighting over resources and land for centuries so why should any of that change now? We need to move in a new direction where we can negotiate our problems. We put materialistic things over human lives. Millions of people have been killed over political battles. Leaders send their citizens into war to conquer for them and sit back while the people get killed by the thousands at a time. Peace is never an option for countries that are after something. This is our nature though. If humans do not agree, we must fight for what is “ours.” War has been present throughout all of history and history always finds a way to repeat itself, whether it is a revolution, a country fighting for its independence, or an imperialistic country taking the land and resources of a more primitive people.
As a citizen of the US, I see people, just like any one of us, on the news begging for us to withdraw our troops. If they want to do it on their own, let them go right ahead. That is more money that will go to benefit us and not towards blowing up buildings in the Middle East. It is a corrupt world and everyone knows what our country is after, that three letter word that brings a cringe inside of me just knowing what it has done to peace on this planet. Not only does it cause us to fight over it, but it destroys our planet’s atmosphere along with it. As long as money keeps filling the richest of the rich’s pockets, the turmoil will never end. I wish there was something I could do to better our world because it would be one simple decision. One choice could turn this country around from the jobless America we live in today. With that said, I guess I have no other choice, but to fight my way through the struggles I will face in my lifetime because our greedy government will not support what is most important. No, not oil, the people.
The department of defense occupies the majority of our government’s spending, six hundred and sixty three billion dollars of it. That is quite the number. Ron Paul has always been my favorite politician for one reason and that is because he cares about the country and its citizens. He is a very intelligent man and if he says we are heading down the wrong path, I believe him. He also compares the United States as an empire, which I agree with that, considering all of the facts. Why must we have a military base in every country we can get one in? No one is going to harm us. If they did, we would actually have a legitimate reason to bomb a country. After seeing our country’s budget, I want to puke at the thought of all of that wasted money that could be used to better our lives, education, and public facilities. Instead, we put the taxpayer’s money into shells and dropping them off onto these poor countries to kill their civilians.
There is so much corruption in our government and we do nothing about it. The French revolted numerous times when their government was going down the drain and here we are, the “freest” people in the world, to have no say or influence on our government. They run us and that is the bottom line. They use us so they can fly all around the world in their private jets and swim in pools filled with money. That is of course an exaggeration, but I bet they could swim in a pool of money if they really wanted to I’m sure. The oil industry is maxing out on profits more than ever now that they are overcharging for oil. It is a monopoly and all of the big oil companies are in on it together so they can make their money and forget about the struggles and the hardships that the rest of the world has to face because of their greed and decadence. If they are going to do so, at least share some of the money that they are stealing right from our pockets as we willingly hand it to them. And you thought you were free.
If the president cannot do anything about the oil industries sucking up all of our money, who can? As stated in the article, other politicians know that Obama’s proposal for taking a four billion dollar tax cut from the oil companies will never happen. I want to know why. We elect a president, the highest position you can achieve in the government, to lead us to prosperity and good times. Instead, our vote pretty much means nothing to our government. If we elected a man to run our country, then I will support him in his decisions to do so. I am not picking a side or stating I voted for Obama because that is beside the point. What matters is that the American voice falls upon deaf ears. We are the government. The people are the only reason why a nation can exist and when it is not being ran how we want it to be and we have no choice in the matters of what will eventually affect our lives, what has the world come to?
Religion is a personal practice that you give yourself to on your own time. I think spiritual experiences should be by yourself because you do not need other people to sway the way you would perceive god. The statistics are faulty though. There is no way to predict something that does not deal with numbers. You cannot count faith based on people’s responses. It fluctuates at different, random times throughout history. Maybe the unaffiliated people have a different religion that is not a choice. This could be a hint that a religious revolution is occurring. Whatever it is, I am glad to see people not taking religion seriously and keeping it to themselves.
I like the shift in the ideals of religion. I feel like religion is pushed onto too many people. I do not think you should pick your religion until you are eighteen because no one knows what other religions have to offer and by that time, you will know what kind of faith you are looking for, but that is not the final say because people jump from religion to religion quite frequently, at least for those who actually give other religions the time to understand them. As for me, I am one of those people who do not pin myself to a religion, mostly because I do not follow a religion. This is a good thing for equality among people. The more people care less about religion the closer we will become to finding world peace.
Religion is slowly fading in the minds of people. It used to be the norm to go to church. Now people are breaking free from these social structures and seeing that religion plays no part in everyday life. The “no affiliation” group is growing, according to that article. I would imagine people do not want to be profiled by their faith. A lot of non-Christians might be hesitant to put their religion on surveys just for the sake of being prejudged. That could be one reason for the statistics. On the other hand, maybe people just do not find religion to be important enough to announce to everyone they know.
His colors came through when he ironically talked about carrying a gun. When do white people carry guns on them unless they are hunting or they are a police officer? He had no real life situations for the product and had a tough time explaining the product thoroughly. Being a white man, he was out of his element and that really zoned in on his whiteness. Being white does not happen in a white environment, but acting white when it shows the most. When I know the white characteristics people assign to white people, I do not associate myself with those traits. It is a generalization and does no justice to any white person. Stereotypes are touchy subjects, but there is not one person that does not even have one thought that stereotypes a person before they even meet them. It is natural to judge something before you know it. We assimilate the information we know to things we think we know. As for the white guy in the video, he lives up to what I expected to see in this video. He displays what white people are seen as, but if I was watching this video without the priming of bringing out his whiteness, I would have watched this as a man who has no clue how to advertise a gun holster.
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