I just spent an hour answering all the calls for petition signs and calls to congress that come to me in my email.
That's a lot of petitions. It tells me that there are definitely some problems in our world today.
Yesterday, I was talking to someone about that; it seems to come up in my conversations a lot. His response was, "Whatever. As long as I am electricity and access to all the porn I could want, I'm happy."
What a sad state. What's more depressing is how many people have this very same attitude. At my job-site, I recently implemented recycling. It is relatively short-sighted endeavor, there is no official support or institutionalization. Once I am gone there will no longer be recycling there. But at least it is helping right now. Perhaps there will be a measure of buy-in by the time I leave and it will continue.
But probably not. Instead, my coworkers spend their time drawing cartoons of me: See Special Ed, he says: "you can recycle that!". A nice little stick figure to accompany it. As Mahatma Gandhi said, though, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." So I'm in step two. I thought I'd promote their fun (they are telling the truth after all) and add a few more thought bubbles from the stick-figure face, "You can turn that off" "That is wasteful" "This is a problem" "We should fix this!"
Now it is even more true.
I was once told by a professor of mine that life is made worth living if there is something bigger than yourself that you care about and work for. I already agreed, "Life is not worth living unless there is something you would die for", and I find it sad how many people don't have this. They just lead these sort of empty-shell existences. Their favorite experiences are things that they can't even remember. "Dude! It was the best time of my life. Three weeks there I remember less than three hours!"
Wow. Seems to me that's a sign of a life being wasted. If you would rather be dead. That is a sign of a decadent society.
That's a lot of petitions. It tells me that there are definitely some problems in our world today.
Yesterday, I was talking to someone about that; it seems to come up in my conversations a lot. His response was, "Whatever. As long as I am electricity and access to all the porn I could want, I'm happy."
What a sad state. What's more depressing is how many people have this very same attitude. At my job-site, I recently implemented recycling. It is relatively short-sighted endeavor, there is no official support or institutionalization. Once I am gone there will no longer be recycling there. But at least it is helping right now. Perhaps there will be a measure of buy-in by the time I leave and it will continue.
But probably not. Instead, my coworkers spend their time drawing cartoons of me: See Special Ed, he says: "you can recycle that!". A nice little stick figure to accompany it. As Mahatma Gandhi said, though, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." So I'm in step two. I thought I'd promote their fun (they are telling the truth after all) and add a few more thought bubbles from the stick-figure face, "You can turn that off" "That is wasteful" "This is a problem" "We should fix this!"
Now it is even more true.
I was once told by a professor of mine that life is made worth living if there is something bigger than yourself that you care about and work for. I already agreed, "Life is not worth living unless there is something you would die for", and I find it sad how many people don't have this. They just lead these sort of empty-shell existences. Their favorite experiences are things that they can't even remember. "Dude! It was the best time of my life. Three weeks there I remember less than three hours!"
Wow. Seems to me that's a sign of a life being wasted. If you would rather be dead. That is a sign of a decadent society.
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