a big log

Wealth divides. Because once wealth exists, its opposite has to exist. That is how it works - nothing can exist without its opposite. So wealth creates poverty. Wealth divides people.

There will always be a wealth gap, but the reasons for its existance change. As of now all of history is responsible for it, so history is responsible to the fullest extent. Contemporaty society is also responsibe for the wealth gap. Society is built on money, and with money we have wealth, and with wealth we have poverty.

But what can be done? To make the gap smaller, we use taxes, taxing the rich more than the poor. But people object to that, it doesn’t make sense - the more money you make the more you lose? It seems like if one works hard one should be rewarded.

The problem is some have to work harder than others to get the same reward. I guess to solve the problem something has to be done to equalize the amount of work that everyone has to do to acieve that reward. The people that don’t work hard won’t get rewarded, and the people that do, will. But that’s another problem, because, some people don’t work hard, get themselves into a situation where they have to work hard, and then have children. The children begin in the situation that the unhardworkers were left in, and then must work harder to get out of it. 

The solution lies in providing all children an equal platform to begin on. But this is hard, isnt it?  

The current G.I. bill is not as substantial as the G.I. bill of the 1950’s. The 1950’s bill targeted race, today’s bill targets social condition. Even though today race still seems tangled with social condition, the focus of the bill is what counts, and focusing on the latter is definitely a super idea. It is fair, because the poor are not provided with other ways to achieve economic success - any way around the hard road is fair. Even though the military is a hard road, at least it is another road. It gives the poor an opportunity to get an education, and economic benefits. Any opportunity is welcome. Even when it is tainted and twisted, full of catches and traps - even when it is the military.

The more homogeneous television content prevalent during the 1950’s seems less preferable to me than the allegedly risque content of today. Because when I watched Ozzie and Harriet i found it very boring and fake, and when i watch television today i find it less boring (but still fake).

Stephanie Coontz’s The Way We Never Were analysis of 1950’s popular culture is interesting and important for today for truth-revealing reasons. However, today, most know the truth - television does not reflect real life - and i suspect most knew the truth then. Those uneducated about the truth will find it in Stephanie Coontz’s book - an important book, breathtaking and paradigm shifting and amazingly resourceful. If everyone read this book, everyone would understand that television shows and video games do not portray real life. Imagine.

I believe no aspects of current popular culture are dangerous to society, but rather, beneficial. Society needs to explore its darkest and strangest corners. Understanding faults does not lead to danger. The riskyness is great, and super, and helpful to the nth degree.

Ashley writes, about Katrina,

Since Hurricane season is upon us and the country still hasn’t done anything about rebuilding New Orleans. If we don’t do anything to protect the city soon, all the clean-up work we’ve done so far will be wasted if another hurricane hits.

Mr. Government and co. haven’t yet stepped up to walk the walk of their ‘rebuild’ talk. But what new New Orleans needs now is protection, from hurricaines…we are well into their season. I agree with Ashley. The clean up work we’ve done so far will be wasted if we dont finish, or reach a hurricane-proof state, before the next hurricane hits.  

Not only do i not think it is not right that those prisoners are there in Guatanamo, but also i think that there are slim to none parallels between their detention and that of the Japanese Americans during WWII. They were rounded up for different reasons, yet they were both rounded up. The first, today, were watched, then plucked out of the masses. The second, then, were herded together, collected without distinction between individuals.

I do not think it is okay that people in Guantanamo Bay are denied fifth ammendment rights. But they are not citizens of the United States, and do not have fifth ammendment rights. But their rights as humans are also being ignored.

Check out this part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 6.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 9.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

What is my definition of evil? What are some examples of evil in the modern world? What are some examples from history and/or literature?
All work and no play is absolutely sinister. But evil, true evil, is just the opposite of good. Evil is power without awareness. Evil is responsibility without knowledge. Expected obesiance is evil, in the expecter.Evil is one thing making any other thing do something that that thing does not want to do.

The products of evil that exist today in the world are famine, poverty, and murder. Poverty is created in the creation of wealth, so today we have wealth as an evil thing. Famine is a product of overconsumption, and hogging of food, so, the overconsumers and food hogs are today evil things. Murder happens. Regularly. And will never be stopped.

Evil in history is in the invadors, the people who arrived in a land that was not their home, but the home of other people who had been living there for a very long time, then called it their own home. Genocide has been an example of evil throughout history. When the spanish all but killed the native americans, when the brits all but killed the australian aboriginies, when the germans killed the jews, when saddam killed his own people. But war is not evil. War happens. Regularly. And will never be stopped.

Welcome to Learnerblogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!