Some of the things that is happening with the computer age is positive but it is balanced by trends that spread things quickly that are false and then are made believable.
I enjoy the truly rich availability of reading about gardening and hints that others post about their successes and methods of they use in different parts of the country. Now it is also not unusual to read about a person in England or Australia. Kitchen International, Mother Earth plus many individuals blogs constantly encourage me as a home gardener. It adds to my knowledge that I get from my local gardening group and all the library books I page though.
The many food blogs make owning cookbooks almost out of date. I gathered a couple new site from this morning's NYT, food52 and Smitten Kitchen are two such blogs. After clicking around them a few minutes anyone would be inspired to get cooking something more than ordinary for dinner.
My daily routine on the computer is also to read a few national and international news reports and commentators, that sort though the world out there for me.
This morning on http://www.countercurrents.org/polya101010.htm
which I check four or five times a week gave out numbers that would embarrass even the devil if he read them about the evil of war in the last ten years. War is old, it has gone on as long as humans walked the earth, the difference is the machinery that is employed now. A graduate from West Point on C-Span talked about it a couple weeks ago. Eye ball to Eye ball, 10% soldiers in WWI could kill, jumped to over 50 % in Vietnam currently US soldiers will kill over 90 % now. The difference is training. The other difference is the distances and the speed add to the bombs from the sky.
What the hell are the voters in this country thinking?I have given much thought to it and I believe it is brainwashing what else can explain the power.
A gathering of old bachelor men, for example, who lie and cover up some of the most public exposed crimes of the last forty years of the Catholic Church still put out table in the back of the church spreading instructions on how to vote. In the current situation in much of the country this Church is telling people how to vote! For starts, it in itself is against the constitution and who would look to such a corrupt organization for guidance?
It is politically using religious institutions to sell their point of view, the right is making fools the people that most need protection from our government and strong laws in place to protection them. These chaste "virgin bachelors" get up there and talk about sex -- weather it is birth control , abortion or gay people. Sex is the subject. Thinking people have to ask is this any different than in a fundamentalist Arab country? Same goes for the Southern Religious groups. That lot have a real problem with fidelity. Sex is always the sin not poverty, not war, not injustice for the less fortunate, just sex. I live in a country that votes on sex and believes in greed and war!
Last weeks news had a man running for office in Ohio that plays games in Nazi uniform, a face book bimbo in Delaware going for the Senate and a fire chief watches as a man's house burned down with three of his animals in it.
All three of these individuals want less government in our lives.
I guess we need more people in suburbia with food stamps, more closed libraries, less police and fire departments. Look to California for a picture of our future.
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