First semester of freshman year

I've learned of how little I know. From anything involving academics to myself. I walked in on September 20th so sure of myself. And I've been completely broken down and had to give up a lot of things. But I've gained so much more. I've gained friends. Enemies. Knowledge. Mentors. And better sight of my selfie and the world around me.

I can only hope to do even better next semester. I came into college hoping that it would mold me into a better human being. So far I think that I'm headed in that direction. I feel like I may be starting to see the world from a better angle that I did before. Yes, the hound Marxist revolutionary that walked In a few months ago has now changed and while I still wish the world would see things from a truly communist perspective, I must also admit that at this point nor at any point in my life will it ever be realistic. But I believe I can do my part to push things more toward that direction as Ernesto Guevara did. But what is a human being? Is that something that anyone can even do research on, off is it something you have to come into your own?

To Lindsey

To Lindsey,

How could one forget,
Thy lovely ness hitch take my breath.
And all the beauty which shone through,
Shone trough the smoke and hue

One promise I am to keep,
To remember thy soul stout in my mind t keep
In my monthly memory sleep
So thy memory Am I to reap

Don't forget me my beautiful Delta G
The promise of a poem I am a obliged to keep
So I liv for thy smile
I pray for thy fierce fire

So you may think that I am but a lonesome child
Please don't leave me by the hall isle
For your red dress I must confess
Will leaf me in beauty's sweet distress

So here's to you with thy sweet charm
I leave my thought t your harm
And you may think me  of a foo your hate would be moats cruel
Your eyes will bing me such sweet calm

So as I lay my head to rest
I pray for your hands sweet caress
To ease me to a peaceful slumber
Pane my hearts cry for you forever thunder

Just to remind you that you're not THAT great.

Woot! Woot! Switzerland!

Way to put down the kids that cried too hard for their cake and didn't want to give to their own. Wait. What's that you say? If the CEO's worked hard then they should be able to have influence on their salaries? We'll I'm pretty sure that the workers are working just as hard and they don't get any breaks, they put in their hours to produce goods which the CEOs reap more than their fair share of the profit from. I mean I agree that they as the decision makers should make more money, but not by ridiculous  proportions. Also what kind of leader would this CEO be if they thought themselves so highly above their subordinates that they can't bear to attach their incentives for higher productivity and output than to that of their workers?

Go Switzerland!

The posh and pomp of politics

Oh how they like to fire up the crowds. The speak so beautifully, but what the hell are they really saying? Take Detroit for example and how they've been pretty much screwed by incompetence over the last 5 years. And it's mostly due to the fact that many politicians often don't understand how to truly work with economics.

I see that a lot now. It seems as though public officials are basically just some idealists that make themselves sound like good people and promise great things, and people believe them. Yet when they finally get to work they realize how little they knew about what they were talking about. It's pretty much society electing the best cheerleader to be the head football coach.

I see this not only in the speeches of the Detroit mayoral candidates (who did talk a lot for a a position that couldn't do much of anything). In political clubs. And political science majors (yes I'm calling them out). I really think that these people need to come up with something more than just a good idea. They need to proof it first. They need to read an econ book. Or at least plan to do so anyway.

Ya can't fix stupid

A story:

A couple of guys go in the woods with guns with the idea that they're going to find Bigfoot. Through the course of events one gets jumpy and hears an alarming noise that causes him to turn and shoot his friend in the back. The guy and his family later go on to obstruct authorities. Moral to this story? Well to me it seems to have told me something that I already knew, and that is that people have the great potential to do something greatly stupid. 

It was dumb to go out with a weapon and not handle it safely (aka keep it on safe until you have a clear target in your sights). It was dumb to lie to police (they'll find out eventually). And it was dumb to let it go on for so long. I understand that they guy may have been really exited to get to shoot Bigfoot. I understand that he and his family were panic mode over getting arrested. But that does not in my mind justify their actions and I'm glad that this guy won't be out in the woods anymore with a weapon that could harm someone else this time. 

*side note: It kind of scared me a little how the Sheriff's department of the county stated that if they had told the truth then nobody would have likely gone to jail. What does he mean? A guy mishandled a weapon and injured someone. I know I'm not a lawyer so could someone just explain to me how telling the truth would have prevented an arrest?

Whoops, ya caught me

So apparently Germany is pretty pissed, but can one really blame them? I mean think about it, what if your supposed "friend" had records of your conversations with your other friends? It wouldn't really seem like they trust you now would they. And if they don't trust you, how could you trust them?

So why would one do it? Was it out of paranoia that we thought Germany was up to something? Was it that we thought they knew something that we didn't and we couldn't hold our curiosity? Why is every sentence I write down a question?

To me it seems that there was perhaps a bit of paranoia mixed with just a more simple thought that we just wanted to run a check up on our allies to make sure that they were truly our allies. The real problem is how far did we go exactly. It would have been one thing to run spy operations on their military capabilities. However a leader's personal phone calls does seem a bit far. I mean for all we know Merkel could have been on the phone with her husband talking about all the things they were going to do that night. Now imagine if THAT tape got out...............we'd be in serious trouble then.

Racism, prejudice, and other bad words

So I think it's safe to say that racism exists pretty much anywhere in the globe, and that not everyone has the same definition of it or views it in the same way. For example, I myself view racism as a belief of personal superiority over someone else simply based on one's race or religion. Others might view it in terms of nationality, or they might sometimes combine prejudice and racism into one.

In Russia we see a form of racism, or at leas prejudice occurring between ethnic Russians and immigrants from the Caucasus region. In 'Merica we like to often think of segregation as our example of racism. Or in Africa you often find racism between groups along cultural or ancestral lines. But where does this unprovoked hatred come from?

One idea that I've always had on this is just human competition. You see, as we compete with one another we like to think in our heads of ways of getting ahead of one another. We often do this by grouping ourselves by similarities and like to exclude those who think differently as a means of using teamwork to gain the upper hand against those that we marginalize or other competing groups. So therefore people often try to look for differences among one another.

However bad this may sound, I'd like to give a high five to society for teaching us to be able to look beyond surface things (like skin color), or at least starting to. Granted we have a long way to go before we eradicate   racism but I think we have the ball rolling at least.