I recently found out through the net about Larry King, the middle schooler who was shot on Valentine's day by another boy. Why haven'nt we talked about this in class? I am sick with people not educating their kids about the existence of gays and lesbians. To claim morals is not to initiate in blatant ignorance and disrespect for others. Even with a downright idiot in office who preached second class citizenship for his own people, you would assume that people are not that intolerant or dumb.
Here is Ellen discussing it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3855885439646181824&q=larry+king+gay+ellen&total=18&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
SInce when is it okay to go around shooting people? Who raises a child to act in that manner?
With everything that is going in in contemporary media, some will say that technology consumes our lives. I agree with those people. It had made our lives more interconnected and much easier. Mass communications has created titans who collectively are producing nothing short of a phenomena. Corporations like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Myspace and Facebook are working with each other not to dominate the world but to move us forward at leaps and bounds. Through creative exchange laws, these companies showcase the power of private enterprise. Capitalism has done wonders, providing services the public sphere cannot. . U.A.E. is an example of what massive wealth can accomplish without a heavy bureaucracy in place. The kingdom runs itself like a business. This is a good thing. Businesses know that in order to sell they will eventually have to catch up and be ahead of cultural trends. The greatest public space EVER is the Internet, which gave birth to these giants. Being online is a necessity, and those in charge of the hardware and software are benefiting the most. Facebook and Myspace grew out of online socializing, and reinvented them. In some areas, governments are totally missing the point. They have become slow, and American democracy has been polarized. The last election saw a fight between red and blue states, now most places on the map are purple.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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