I read T.S Elliot as I wait for this coffee shop computer to sputter through the "add-on programs" and other at large speed sappers. It is poetry, that is, these computers. We develop such technology, capable of easing the burden of this or that. But in a thoughtless culture, to implement something like the Internet, always ends up increasing the dislocation between the individual and the moment. I have decided I like books better than computers.

People too, I like them like clouds; though sometimes I want sun or a bluebird sky, the occasional puff of vapor adds just the right amount of random beauty that makes each day unique. Like a computer though, many people seem to run the same program, and are bogged down with many distractions from the main task.

Many will argue what the primairy role of a person is, as if it was something we had a choice in. Yes, we decide what to wear, who to sleep with and what school to graduate from, but we still do the same as any other homo sapien sapien: justify our existance. This is a requirnment to any organizim that departs from the natural world; they must creat a purpose.

I once read a book of philosophy, or, western thought, that challenged the need for purpose. The auther stated that life itself was reason enough; to be alive is purpose enough to exist. This plays upon the simple beauty of being. I find distraction in goals as they tend to seperate the seeker from the reason they are alive; taking for granted that life is not a garrentee and that through their actions they serve to require the siffering of others.

To the one who believes someone will always be suffering: May you eat your words.

Yes, as the Buddah in you will say, "Suffering in the basic condition of life". It cannot be avoided. It is the exploitation and persicution that can be, only through the will of the individual to seperate their existance from these wholly dispicable lifestyles. A North American is the oppressor of the world. Even more, we are chained to our roll, making us more like slaves than a "free" people.

A word about Freedom

With power comes responsibility, the word freedom should be difined by both 'power' and 'responsibility'. If we are free, then how do we express our responsibility? Going to work for 40 years? Paying taxes? If we go into detail of the real-world implications of these we find at step one or two, contridiction. When we turn tail from condriction (things that undermine freedom) we sluff on our responsibility. Remember the American revolution? That is wat it took then to be free. What is it today?

Our president is perhaps the "saviour" some claim. But he is in a system that has murdered presidents for going overboard on being responsible to freedom. The best Obama could do is open the door for the people to stand up. Governments don't change countries, people do. this is a law of nature and a constant in history.

Freedom is important, but it is much more difficult to maintain than slavery. As individuals, it is easier to be oppressed; enslaved for we are not responsible for our needs. The consumate American will say "I go to work to earn for the things I need". I say yes you do, like a cotton picker went into the field to aviod a beating. If you don't go to work, you will suffer the same as any slave.

I don't argue that we should be aloud to do nothing and enjoy the fruits or another's labor, remember I am opposed to the American Republic that has exploited poor people the world over. I mearly propose that when we have a problem, we don't solve it with bombs. We shoudl all work to the fullest of our abilities, to benefit the community. Whenever we find ourselves justifying murder/war as a means to benefit the community, we must step back and see just how big our community is. War is a means to erase the oppisition; it is a declaration of superioruty. I am right about what I say, but it is not what I say that makes me right, it is because I will not murder you to be right mearly by the absence of your view. Ah, America.

Nothing is wrong with one community being a stranger to another, its called "cultural diversity". Confict will arise no matter how well aquanted a people are with another. This is why the subject of "Conflict Resolution" is a very good one to require at all levels of education. Many are quick to say "War is Natural" and yes, to an oppresive regiem marked by a superiority complex and poor education, war will naturally be the means employed to resolve conflicts. "Pre-emptive strikes" I think was the actions of this country. On the playground we call that starting a fight. War is not natural, conflict is. There are 5 ways to resolve conflict, war is one and is a means of brute force. Sophistocation America?

Aw, shame on me. All these posts, always the same point. I"ll try to "lighten up". I'll try to ignore the war too. Yea, that'll sure hasten change. And whats the big deal anyway? No of this matters, right? Or it does, that why we drop bombs in cities where babies sleep. Ah, america. What business do we have telling anyone else how to run a country?

Peace and love and cereal boxes

"Cash for Clunkers" Great! Change you can belive in! More investing in the auto industry. How hopeful! With love: YOU FOOLS!