dawn of light
Perhaps the reason I don't post on this thing anymore is because life is just very busy. Perhaps the reason I so tired all the time is because their is too much stress to deal with. Perhaps it would be easy to fill my first live journal post in a many moons time with complaining and blabber.
But nay!
I shall instead fill this here space with a bit of a inner political debate. You see, I've become so enamored with my left wing love fest I realized I've become a bit too closed minded for my own liking. (and i don't mind being a bit closed minded)
Today in my audio lecture (RTA is frekin' great by the way) we had an american guest speaker. The first thing he did was apologies for his country's behavior and insist that not all Americans are insane conservative war loving shit disturbers.
This was all fine and dandy. He then made dated jokes about americans moving to canada to avoid the madness that is bush. (or as he lovingly referred to him as "shrub"). He continued to spend the rest of the hour explaining how him and his crew were not allowed to send out a FM radio signal to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, informing them of emergency procedures and the like. "Fucking Conservatives" I thought, as I usually do.
Then he said something that really made me second guess myself. "I subscribe to many conservative publications. It's easy to sit on one side of the fence and just nay say everything the other side has to say. You'd be surprised how much you can learn from those you don't agree with".
God Dammit! He's right! I've become so liberal in my ways that I just brush off everything that the conservatives say as bull crap. I don't understand them at all. Is that a problem? I can't just assume that what I believe in is right. Can I? Is second guessing myself the first step to joining the dark side of the force?
I'm going to try and subscribe to Fox News and seriously understand those who i consider my political enemy.
And hey... with this impending election coming up, I might as well get used to the idea of a conservative government. Well, now i'm just rambling...
Nice to be back on LJ. Expect more from me over the next while.
But nay!
I shall instead fill this here space with a bit of a inner political debate. You see, I've become so enamored with my left wing love fest I realized I've become a bit too closed minded for my own liking. (and i don't mind being a bit closed minded)
Today in my audio lecture (RTA is frekin' great by the way) we had an american guest speaker. The first thing he did was apologies for his country's behavior and insist that not all Americans are insane conservative war loving shit disturbers.
This was all fine and dandy. He then made dated jokes about americans moving to canada to avoid the madness that is bush. (or as he lovingly referred to him as "shrub"). He continued to spend the rest of the hour explaining how him and his crew were not allowed to send out a FM radio signal to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, informing them of emergency procedures and the like. "Fucking Conservatives" I thought, as I usually do.
Then he said something that really made me second guess myself. "I subscribe to many conservative publications. It's easy to sit on one side of the fence and just nay say everything the other side has to say. You'd be surprised how much you can learn from those you don't agree with".
God Dammit! He's right! I've become so liberal in my ways that I just brush off everything that the conservatives say as bull crap. I don't understand them at all. Is that a problem? I can't just assume that what I believe in is right. Can I? Is second guessing myself the first step to joining the dark side of the force?
I'm going to try and subscribe to Fox News and seriously understand those who i consider my political enemy.
And hey... with this impending election coming up, I might as well get used to the idea of a conservative government. Well, now i'm just rambling...
Nice to be back on LJ. Expect more from me over the next while.