Friday, July 27, 2012

distractions

distracted by the internet and then the phone, smiling all the way... hey, it's friday, remember?... yeah, so i found myself exploring the crap of politics again today and thankfully, was distracted by the phone for an hour or two and a couple of happiness walks and some job exploration and about done for the day... gonna hop in the shower and cook something yummy...

just cuz i love ya and know you are curious about everything that passes through my head, here is one of the internet distractions that had me commenting on the youtube (the comments are below the video link):

propaganda, patriotism, pulp, or pap?

To make this video partisan diminishes it's message. It is not one president or party that restricts your freedom. It is government. It is religion. It is your employers right up to the corporate structures, world banks, and... are you free to take a year off to be with your family or travel, learn, and do as you please? When will you learn that your enemy is not one person or political party, your enemy is the work-class system you allowed the few with the most wealth create. Free your minds.

This could justifiably be sent to almost any President, even Lincoln if you were from the South. It is a fanfare of platitudes, a feel good pandering to emotion without definitive substance. It could be sent to any government that makes laws to restrict freedom (and every government does). Pretty well done, for what it is, but it takes a lot of ignorance not to see through it. It could have been aimed at the Patriot Act, for instance, or corporations or religion, for that matter. Free your minds.

but then, people are so afraid and so eager to blame and hate someone for so many reasons that the same words and images can be used by both sides, just as the same guns and bombs are used on both sides to kill each other in wars... some even see wisdom in stuff like this...

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musical distractions

If people had visible signs or meters that told something about them, what would you want it to tell you?

dumb poll (above), smart responders

all the previous poll votes were somehow erased, so, nevermind... ironically or coincidentally or whatever, the results were very close in practical numbers to the results above shown with just three votes, if you understand the mathematics behind that extrapolative reasoning... i will probably remove the poll at some point... it is a ridiculously useless feature...

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the thing is, with my tendency to babble and meander and whine and allow distraction to take the lead more often than not, even in this blog that sort of meant to merge brevity with focus like some bloggers do, searching for key words does not always lead to specific information about the subject of that key word... but... here is a start at an easy way to search for key words in this blog... use the search box at the top of the blog to search for words not listed here... if ya wanna, that is... and feel free to suggest words to add to this search shortcut section... click on the words below :)

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