September 25, 2010: Political idiots

If I see any variation of, "I won't vote for Meg Whitman because she's a slandering whore" I might just have to shoot someone. I love the involvement and I love hearing multiple views being discussed. I absolutely despise people who make complaints about things with absolutely no support to thier view or some generic term of offense as their reasoning. I would love to hear why you think that Candidate A is better than Candidate B. I would love to hear how you interpret the measures and propositions being put on the ballot. And I definately love knowing that there is involvement in our government at any and every level. But I find that kind of slanderous behavior to be rude and completely uncalled for. We know very little if anything at all about our politicians true character, and although we believe that actions speak louder than words our actions are just as poor, if not just as broadcasted. We are more in outrage over our politicians than the video of the girl that threw newborn puppies into a fast moving river with the exact same amount of information. We have the actions but not the ability to understand the true impact of any decision. Most of us just listen to the radio or television commercials instead of actually reading the ballots. We take propaganda laced interpretations from biased parties and use that as our primary source of information. These measures and propositions are NOT that difficult to read if you break them down sentence by sentence. I promise, if you take your time you will understand them. Likewise, if we sit down and really do some research on the things that our politicians and candidates have done we will see what their stance is on many things. We will be able to make truly informed judgements and THAT is what is going to help us now. We need to stop jumping on these band wagons and do some real independent research and learn how to sift through the important and unimportant. Learn the facts, process them, and make our own decisions. Support our viewpoints with solid information and debate them amongst ourselves. Open ourselves up to different viewpoints and different ideas, so that things get better. It isn't the media at fault, we are at fault. We refuse to be involved in our government until infamy or scandal show up, and then all we have to talk about is the negative. We are no longer the proud nation we were, the proud, informed nation that believed in it's government. The proud nation with a government that was recognized at being in the forefront of the entire world. We need to get back on our feet, I know things are difficult now and that we want someone to blame. Blame ourselves, for being ignorant and ENJOYING our ignorance. If we want change, we must bring it ourselves.

Love, Polly.

September 24, 2010: What you know at four is not what you know at forty.

The things we know as children are not the same things that we know as adults. We are immediately instilled with a sense of wonder about the world around us because there is so much that we cannot yet explain ourselves. We have a drive to learn and make sense of all the things around us, a sense of awe at the life and energy that makes up the world. We do not yet take it for granted, because we cannot for the life of us make any of these things plausible yet. The boundaries that we draw in our lives are constantly changing and pushed further out. They know the limits of their small bodies and unformed minds and are in awe of the perceived lack of limits that those older than them don't have.

The things we know as adults are not the same things we knew as children. The boundaries we see are no longer just boundaries of inabilities, they are boundaries of financial capabilities, political beliefs, moral and ethical values. The boundaries that were then so phenomenally unlimited are more complicated than those untrained eyes could see. And it pains us, that we are bound by these things. We look at children and wish that we could be as free as they can. We see them as having the constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And we see ourselves as being inhibited and kept from those rights.

I believe that we need to embrace the human experience of life, that we need to encourage growth amongst ourselves and never believe that there are any limitations into the things that we can do. That life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are things that we have innately and we lose them if we believe we lose them. The power of our minds is amazing and what we think has the power to change our beliefs and how we live our lives.

Love, Polly.