Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2009 19:26:24 GMT -5
Monday, October 12, 2009.
10/12/09
101209
Fuck.
Maybe that's a strong word, but I think the situation warrants it.
My father and I were talking about my brother, and how's fucking flunking school. He's really smart, and yet he's getting straight Fs. Damn, but the boy's so intellegent - he could knock all the teachers and students off their asses and onto the floor, and yet they see him as the problem student.
This was over dinner, and my brother was, as usual, out roaming around town with his buddies, acting like an idiot.
My brother comes home, and my dad, after letting my brother eat some, then talks to him.
He's fucking around with his life right now. He doesn't know shit about what he's doing, and he thinks this is all a game. Oh, I'm flunking school - that's alright, I can still get into college and do shit there. WRONG. Oh, well, I'll go and be a professional football player! WRONG. (and I can't tell you how many people I've heard say that.)
This is not a game. This is life. This is dead fucking serious. It's his future, and he's not getting ahead of the game. This is bad, real bad.
He's got a great opportunity, and he's bright. He should be taking the chance to learn whatever he can, whenever he can. This is not a time for slacking and goofing off: You fuck up with high school and come out fucked up, your life if fucked up, and you're ten years behind by the time you figure it out.
I see so many people drop out of school, skip classes and flunk, simply because they think it's cool, or fun, or because they don't want to put forth the effort. It's like school's a joke to them, and it's not even a very funny one, because they have to be there, and they don't want to be.
These people are such fucking morons! They've got chances and choices and opportunities, and they're wasting them away. Doing drugs, smoking, drinking: hundreds of thousands of children in the United States alone are doing these things before they've even started their Sophmore year.
They don't know what the fuck they're fucking doing. Their brains are mentally mature yet. They think it's all fun and games and shit, and then, when they've finally stopped developing at 24, maybe, 25 maybe, 26, maybe, they'll look back and think, "Oh, shit." They'll be working dead end jobs earning $7.00 an hour with no opportunity, working for some god damn boss that the fricking hate. They'll say, "Fuck. I don't want to be working this shitty job for this shitty boss, living in a shithole and driving a shitty car."
If you don't want to do that sort of stuff, you've got to have money. To get good money, you need a good job, and to get a good job, you need a good education; you need skills, marketable skills.
Have you stopped for a moment and thought about the decline of literacy rates in the US? The number of people that can actually read are declining in every sort of category you can thinking of: women, men, children, adults, boys, girls, asians, caucasians, blacks, catholics, jews. There are so many people out there that can barely write their fucking name - and they started off being able to go to school!
And you know what? You are really going to need an education in the world to come, in order to prosper, or eke out a living, or maybe even survive.
I think most of you have heard about the water crisis going on in Asia, especially in China and India and the countries near them -- their rivers, the Yangztee, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Sutlej, the Yellow, the Ganges; countless others; they're polluted. Badly. Not only that, but the ecosystems are severely damaged. Poor, harmful farming practices, countless dams, irrigation canals; and the like; have made an extensive impact ~ unbridled industrialization has scarred the land and the water.
Did you know that in the India/Tibetian/China area, there are at least ten major rivers that flow through? Ten, and yet, despite the abundance of water, Asia is a water-deficient country. The continent is home to half the world's population, and yet, it has the least amount of freshwater of all the continents -- only 3,920 cubic meters per person.
‘The next World War will be over water.’
How fucking true is that? The water systems in India, China, Pakistan, and all the other countries there -- they are so close to failing. And when they fail, billions of people will be thirsty, they will be hungry; and some, like China and Pakistan, will be nuclearly armed.
Remember World War Two? Just one or two nukes were dropped, and and, oh, quite a few thousand were killed. Now imagine a nuclear war. Imagine China and Pakistan, to name a few, fighting for their lives - for fresh water.
This is so serious that it isn't funny. The reality is, is that this is very likely to happen, and in our lifetime. People are going to die. Lots of them. Thousands, millions, billions. At least a billion. Extremely likely that even more will die.
We've already got hunger and drinking issues. We've already got millions of people dying and dead.
And more will die. Before their lifetime, before they really should.
And for us, children of this world, inheritors of the future...we need to think about this, we need to act. Our government isn't going to fix things - they don't have the power, the will, or the ability to do so.
In America, we've got all these fuels and water sources. Our lives could, for the next hundred of years, go on as they are with minimal amount of change. The only problem is, while this country can remain the same - the outside world, however, doesn't have the resources or the luxory to do so.
And despite what many like to think, it's all interconnected. One World. Our World. A Global Community. What happens to one country, it affects the rest of the world.
Which is why an education is so serious, and so imperitive. In the future, our future, what's going to happen? For sure, I can't say what. But I think that we are going to live through the most amazing transition in the history of the world. It's going to be tough out there, and there are going to be a lot of problems on top of the shit-load of issues we already have. We're going to need every scrap of smarts we can get to even begin to try and come up with solutions to problems. And it's going to be up to us to fix. Not our parents, not their generation. Us. And we're going to have to make major changes, drastic changes, live-altering changes, to even begin to stand a chance; all the while keeping in mind that one can only go foreward, never backward.
10/12/09
101209
Fuck.
Maybe that's a strong word, but I think the situation warrants it.
My father and I were talking about my brother, and how's fucking flunking school. He's really smart, and yet he's getting straight Fs. Damn, but the boy's so intellegent - he could knock all the teachers and students off their asses and onto the floor, and yet they see him as the problem student.
This was over dinner, and my brother was, as usual, out roaming around town with his buddies, acting like an idiot.
My brother comes home, and my dad, after letting my brother eat some, then talks to him.
He's fucking around with his life right now. He doesn't know shit about what he's doing, and he thinks this is all a game. Oh, I'm flunking school - that's alright, I can still get into college and do shit there. WRONG. Oh, well, I'll go and be a professional football player! WRONG. (and I can't tell you how many people I've heard say that.)
This is not a game. This is life. This is dead fucking serious. It's his future, and he's not getting ahead of the game. This is bad, real bad.
He's got a great opportunity, and he's bright. He should be taking the chance to learn whatever he can, whenever he can. This is not a time for slacking and goofing off: You fuck up with high school and come out fucked up, your life if fucked up, and you're ten years behind by the time you figure it out.
I see so many people drop out of school, skip classes and flunk, simply because they think it's cool, or fun, or because they don't want to put forth the effort. It's like school's a joke to them, and it's not even a very funny one, because they have to be there, and they don't want to be.
These people are such fucking morons! They've got chances and choices and opportunities, and they're wasting them away. Doing drugs, smoking, drinking: hundreds of thousands of children in the United States alone are doing these things before they've even started their Sophmore year.
They don't know what the fuck they're fucking doing. Their brains are mentally mature yet. They think it's all fun and games and shit, and then, when they've finally stopped developing at 24, maybe, 25 maybe, 26, maybe, they'll look back and think, "Oh, shit." They'll be working dead end jobs earning $7.00 an hour with no opportunity, working for some god damn boss that the fricking hate. They'll say, "Fuck. I don't want to be working this shitty job for this shitty boss, living in a shithole and driving a shitty car."
If you don't want to do that sort of stuff, you've got to have money. To get good money, you need a good job, and to get a good job, you need a good education; you need skills, marketable skills.
Have you stopped for a moment and thought about the decline of literacy rates in the US? The number of people that can actually read are declining in every sort of category you can thinking of: women, men, children, adults, boys, girls, asians, caucasians, blacks, catholics, jews. There are so many people out there that can barely write their fucking name - and they started off being able to go to school!
And you know what? You are really going to need an education in the world to come, in order to prosper, or eke out a living, or maybe even survive.
I think most of you have heard about the water crisis going on in Asia, especially in China and India and the countries near them -- their rivers, the Yangztee, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Sutlej, the Yellow, the Ganges; countless others; they're polluted. Badly. Not only that, but the ecosystems are severely damaged. Poor, harmful farming practices, countless dams, irrigation canals; and the like; have made an extensive impact ~ unbridled industrialization has scarred the land and the water.
Did you know that in the India/Tibetian/China area, there are at least ten major rivers that flow through? Ten, and yet, despite the abundance of water, Asia is a water-deficient country. The continent is home to half the world's population, and yet, it has the least amount of freshwater of all the continents -- only 3,920 cubic meters per person.
‘The next World War will be over water.’
How fucking true is that? The water systems in India, China, Pakistan, and all the other countries there -- they are so close to failing. And when they fail, billions of people will be thirsty, they will be hungry; and some, like China and Pakistan, will be nuclearly armed.
Remember World War Two? Just one or two nukes were dropped, and and, oh, quite a few thousand were killed. Now imagine a nuclear war. Imagine China and Pakistan, to name a few, fighting for their lives - for fresh water.
This is so serious that it isn't funny. The reality is, is that this is very likely to happen, and in our lifetime. People are going to die. Lots of them. Thousands, millions, billions. At least a billion. Extremely likely that even more will die.
We've already got hunger and drinking issues. We've already got millions of people dying and dead.
And more will die. Before their lifetime, before they really should.
And for us, children of this world, inheritors of the future...we need to think about this, we need to act. Our government isn't going to fix things - they don't have the power, the will, or the ability to do so.
In America, we've got all these fuels and water sources. Our lives could, for the next hundred of years, go on as they are with minimal amount of change. The only problem is, while this country can remain the same - the outside world, however, doesn't have the resources or the luxory to do so.
And despite what many like to think, it's all interconnected. One World. Our World. A Global Community. What happens to one country, it affects the rest of the world.
Which is why an education is so serious, and so imperitive. In the future, our future, what's going to happen? For sure, I can't say what. But I think that we are going to live through the most amazing transition in the history of the world. It's going to be tough out there, and there are going to be a lot of problems on top of the shit-load of issues we already have. We're going to need every scrap of smarts we can get to even begin to try and come up with solutions to problems. And it's going to be up to us to fix. Not our parents, not their generation. Us. And we're going to have to make major changes, drastic changes, live-altering changes, to even begin to stand a chance; all the while keeping in mind that one can only go foreward, never backward.
