facebook moments

after a few months (four, actually) i re-activated my facebook account, at least for today, and it is good to see a high school classmate living his dream (and one of my dreams too)... facebook has it's pros and cons, but i just don't find time for it or interest in it these days... some friends in the offline world use it, softball teams use it, but i don't have time to check it often enough to depend on it for communication (and i don't want it bogging down my old phone), so i'd rather not feel obligated to get on the computer and spend an hour a day checking all the friends and teams... and then there is the news, which sucks... i don't turn on the tv news and used to read the news via facebook feeds, but the world is so depressing i'd rather not read the feeds anymore... yeah, so this momentary facebook moment is fading fast... i may leave the site active for now, but if i start hearing the same sort of "why weren't you here or there, i posted it on facebook" guilt trips from teams or friends i'll probably deactivate again... the way i see it, friends who can't call or text me don't really want me, they just want people at their event...

meanwhile, there's the sad and crazy world... a survey found that 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans said Obama was responsible for the Katrina response... a more interesting waste of time was finding a very odd name for a site comparing itself to medical marijuana... makes no sense to emphasize the law and substance abuse if you are trying to offer an alternative calming peaceful therapuetic experience to people... one person's opinion, the first five minutes were a reasonably calming sleep machine, the wind down after five minutes felt like a let down and then the lower tones felt like sitting in traffic on the highway culminating in an annoying alarm clock buzz... just because they call it marijuana does not mean it is... and i wondered over to some music... and then, who remembers the deeper roots of rap, after all, just repeating the same rebellious perspective of youth taking a serious look at the culture demanding conformity, absorbing individuality and creativity, and judging differences as wrong or evil... it is so obvious before the indoctrination, before the blinders, before the fear replaces the open mind... culture changes... but frightened people remain scary and the insistence of the adults at the time that they are right beyond question seldom waivers... even truth chnges, which is why fundamentals must be considered more important than momentary institutionalized truths...

well, before i go off on a sociological rant, i'll just close the site...