isandro

On and off, I follow the news closely. Every time I'm reminded of why I stopped last time.
I try and find out wich sites seem to be platforms for the bigger players, who the most opinionated are. Players like the Project for a New American Century, Indymedia, whatreallyhappened.com. I wanna read how they approach the problem, and mostly each other. Maybe that's my mistake.
The more I read, the more i see how they're trying to polarise the public, win people over to their side. Every party sees other parties being influenced by other parties: capitalists, communists, muslim-fundamentalists. I may be wrong, but I can see their point. They might actually be right. Based on these articles I can't determine who's right.

Before I go any further, I think it's important to mention I'm not an american, I'm european. I get different news, different opinions. I'm led to believe that america is in afghanistan, in iraq for capitalist reasons, not humanist.

Ofcourse it's very possible that the whole preemtive strike / freedom mission was about capitalism, but when does this become profitable?
Despite the propaganda news about incubators -including babies- being stolen from infermaries I'm willing to believe that you wouldn't like to live in that place, that (as a woman) you could be killed for having an extramarital affair or having sex at all before marriage. That, as a thief, you can lose hand and foot.
Not every culture is developed and there are pieces on this globe that actually live in semi-medival conditions.

And then there's this great militairy force that decides to drag these people into the 21st century, kicking and screaming if they have to. But how can you say that our way of live is really better?

I just can't decide wether or not that's a good thing.
There's this whole notion of the old, simple life when no one was in a hurry, versus the stressed, hurried existance in the western world. Vengeance of honor, desease and hunger versus tolerance, self-help books and bulimia. We can cure anyting, and live for 'being happy'

I hardly believe in tolerance. It's a beautiful thought, but it often comes down to 'I don't care as long you don't bother me with it'. Our elders are withering away in underfunded nursing homes. people are found dead after months or years.
I have asthma and I get depressed during the winter. If I were born 400 years ago, think I'd be removed from the genepool soon enough.
I can't imagine being happy with a wife I'd only met on our wedding day.

I don't like this luxury society, where a train being late by three minutes is a big fuckin' deal. Being insulted by the breath of some bum asking for money. I'm 27 and I don't even have a driver's license. I need deodorant, mouthwash, teeth whitener. I need an opinion about this fucked up world.
I can't figure out how to read the news, read the sites, listen to people without looking for their secret agenda.
How does one do that? Just by looking hard at what they're saying and how? By studying past and present work?
PR is such a fucked up science nowadays...

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