It no longer appears in your news although it should. Further proof that what you watch on television is a total load of crap designed to keep you passive and make you believe that everything is ok. It was there briefly many months ago, but now, if the media were to tell you what is really going on you might actually have something to say about it. A quarter of a century ago the world watched in horror as Chernobyl melted down and exploded, but now, with all the fun little distractions found on your phone and computer, people can’t take the time to care about the fact that they are being poisoned by radioactive elements so toxic, that modern science doesn’t really know how to handle them. People don’t care that the disaster at Fukushima is many orders of magnitude worse than anything we have ever seen. Only full-scale nuclear war could exceed it.
I could go on and quote figures and facts. I cold tell you that it is in your air, your food, your water, and on the surface of almost anything that you touch out of doors. It is in the rain and the snow as well. Right now, chances are, it is in your body. But what would be the point of telling people all of that? They still wouldn’t care. It is something that is out of sight, and thanks to the complicit media, out of mind. However, if you are interested, go take a look for yourself. Hit that internet and use it for something other than your own personal satisfaction. Use it, for once, to actually educate yourself.
Most people never stop to think that the cancer rate is somewhere around 50%. Guess what? It is going to go even higher. Next time you stop to talk to a friend, take a moment to realize that one of you, and perhaps even both of you, will die from cancer, unless you are lucky enough to get hit by a car. That is the reality that we face.
If you say that I am simply a fear mongering prick, feel free to ask yourself who put those words in your mouth. We have poisoned the planet and that is a fact that is inescapable. The impact will be devastating and far reaching. The children of our children’s grandchildren will still be feeling the effects of Fukushima. Anyone that tells you differently is selling you something. Birth defects, infertility, cancers of bone and blood - this is the future of the world, given to you by the miracle of nuclear energy.
As for Japan? I feel so deeply for them. Many of them do not know what hell has been unleashed upon their ancient and beautiful culture. All that history, culture, and technical innovation will soon be a thing of the past as many of them die from one wasting disease or another. There time has passed. We can only watch helplessly as their country slips away.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about all of this is the fact that despite all that has already transpired, it has a very good change of getting worse. The cores of those reactors are still the most dangerous thing on the planet right now. They are hot and slowly melting their way down into the ground. As if poisoning the air and the sea were not enough, now we have to worry that they will poison the very earth itself.
If they haven’t already.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
What now hipsters?
I have been following the Occupy Wall Street movement since it began. I watched live on the internet when the police cleared out Boston, and then Seattle. I watched as protestors were locked in a bank and subsequently arrested. I watched the video of protestors being attacked in Oakland with tear gas, then it was on to Denver, with rubber bullets. I have read their list of demands, listened to them speak out in the media, and analyzed the media’s biased responses in turn.
The media portrayed them as hippies. It was a comical response, I thought, since it could not be true. Firstly, hippies do not exist. I live in Denver, a city next to a virtual Mecca for would-be hippies. The only thing that skulks around Boulder are credit-card hippies, stoners, and the occasional intellectual with too much facial hair. I have never seen an actual hippy in my entire life. Were it not for the Woodstock footage there would really be no proof that they ever existed. Secondly, the media lies - constantly and purposefully - in case you didn’t know that. So obviously they were not hippies. I was a bit disappointed.
So I watched some interviews with “the man on the street.” I went to the internet and started watching various clips from movements around the country. I wanted to get the feel for the people in this movement. I wanted to know what they thought about the state of this country, and more importantly, what their ideas were to fix it. Of course, there was not a hippy among them. There were some pretend ones for sure, but for the most part the people I saw were the people I expected to see. The tragically uninformed and grossly dependant demanding more from their government. Still no actual hippies.
Then I moved onto the organizers, or leaders if you want to call them that. I expected to see more of the same dependant fools but was instead greeted by the worst segment of the American population; hipsters.
Do not confuse hipsters with hippies. Hippies stink, hipsters do not. However, as annoying as hippies are, hipsters are even worse. Hipsters like to cry. They cry about everything. The more mundane and meaningless the offense, the more they cry. They cried when Michael Jackson died. They cried when Starbucks raised their prices. They cried when the iPhone 4 didn’t work right. They nearly rioted when Face book changed formats. The easiest way to spot a hipster is on Face book. They are the people posting about how rough their day was in an effort to get other hipsters to cry with them. Or they post pictures of every event they go to so other people will think they have an interesting life. Hipsters are like infants. They need constant attention or they will die.
Now, after all that time wasted, I have arrived at the only logical conclusion I could. It is not an answer to the problem, but rather a question for the entire movement. What now? The question is simple, and needs an answer, because from what I have seen so far the Occupy movement is impotent and blind. Every attempt they have made to get a foothold has been thwarted by the police and authorities. They are now routinely swept out of parks and city squares. The police violence is escalating and they can’t even go into a bank to close their accounts without being herded in and hauled away like the cattle the system knows that they are. Revolutions are nasty business. You are never going to talk a rich man into poverty, particularly when you are targeting the wrong rich man. Perhaps if someone posted that little fact on face book the hipsters would clue in to it. Maybe Starbucks can write it on the side of their cups. Either way, at some point, this is going to get nasty if they keep on pushing. At some point one of these cities is going to pop and from what I have seen, most of these people are ill prepared for any confrontation of that magnitude.
So you can thank the hipsters ahead of time. You can thank them for the impending police state that these protests will create. You can thank them for second world socialism, or worse, complete global fascism. Pat them on the back and tell them what a wonderful job they have done in aiding the powers-that-be with their plans to destroy America. Pet them gently and whisper in their ear that they were right to never actually take a stand. Tell them to tweet all about it.
I can say one thing for the hipsters, though. I guarantee that their efforts will be rewarded. They will have plenty to cry about when all of this is over.
The media portrayed them as hippies. It was a comical response, I thought, since it could not be true. Firstly, hippies do not exist. I live in Denver, a city next to a virtual Mecca for would-be hippies. The only thing that skulks around Boulder are credit-card hippies, stoners, and the occasional intellectual with too much facial hair. I have never seen an actual hippy in my entire life. Were it not for the Woodstock footage there would really be no proof that they ever existed. Secondly, the media lies - constantly and purposefully - in case you didn’t know that. So obviously they were not hippies. I was a bit disappointed.
So I watched some interviews with “the man on the street.” I went to the internet and started watching various clips from movements around the country. I wanted to get the feel for the people in this movement. I wanted to know what they thought about the state of this country, and more importantly, what their ideas were to fix it. Of course, there was not a hippy among them. There were some pretend ones for sure, but for the most part the people I saw were the people I expected to see. The tragically uninformed and grossly dependant demanding more from their government. Still no actual hippies.
Then I moved onto the organizers, or leaders if you want to call them that. I expected to see more of the same dependant fools but was instead greeted by the worst segment of the American population; hipsters.
Do not confuse hipsters with hippies. Hippies stink, hipsters do not. However, as annoying as hippies are, hipsters are even worse. Hipsters like to cry. They cry about everything. The more mundane and meaningless the offense, the more they cry. They cried when Michael Jackson died. They cried when Starbucks raised their prices. They cried when the iPhone 4 didn’t work right. They nearly rioted when Face book changed formats. The easiest way to spot a hipster is on Face book. They are the people posting about how rough their day was in an effort to get other hipsters to cry with them. Or they post pictures of every event they go to so other people will think they have an interesting life. Hipsters are like infants. They need constant attention or they will die.
Now, after all that time wasted, I have arrived at the only logical conclusion I could. It is not an answer to the problem, but rather a question for the entire movement. What now? The question is simple, and needs an answer, because from what I have seen so far the Occupy movement is impotent and blind. Every attempt they have made to get a foothold has been thwarted by the police and authorities. They are now routinely swept out of parks and city squares. The police violence is escalating and they can’t even go into a bank to close their accounts without being herded in and hauled away like the cattle the system knows that they are. Revolutions are nasty business. You are never going to talk a rich man into poverty, particularly when you are targeting the wrong rich man. Perhaps if someone posted that little fact on face book the hipsters would clue in to it. Maybe Starbucks can write it on the side of their cups. Either way, at some point, this is going to get nasty if they keep on pushing. At some point one of these cities is going to pop and from what I have seen, most of these people are ill prepared for any confrontation of that magnitude.
So you can thank the hipsters ahead of time. You can thank them for the impending police state that these protests will create. You can thank them for second world socialism, or worse, complete global fascism. Pat them on the back and tell them what a wonderful job they have done in aiding the powers-that-be with their plans to destroy America. Pet them gently and whisper in their ear that they were right to never actually take a stand. Tell them to tweet all about it.
I can say one thing for the hipsters, though. I guarantee that their efforts will be rewarded. They will have plenty to cry about when all of this is over.
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