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How Can We Be More Informed

October 14th, 2015

I want the truth about the human condition including the condition of the world we live in. I want to know what universities and research labs are working on. How far has cloning come? What can be done with a microchip in someone’s body. What can be done without one? I want to know what Psychology knows about me that I don’t know about myself. I want to know if sociology has been used to take advantage of a community or a country.  I want to know what big business is spending it’s money on and why the US Government is borrowing at a rate of $40,000 per minute. I want to know who we’re borrowing that from. I want to know what politicians are invested in overseas so that America’s well being and their money’s well being may be a conflict of interest. I want to know how much more it will cost to purchase humanly raised meat and why it cost whatever that amount is. I want to have the Constitution explained first word to the last word (I have read it). Why should I have to pay (college) for that information. Isn’t America still better off when it’s people are informed. Isn’t it the information age? I want to know why we’re still so ignorant in the information age. It seems like the age of the privileged.

When I think of these questions I’m overwhelmed but isn’t that what our politicians and educators are for? I don’t give a shit about trans fat or what size soda you can drink in New York by comparison to real life questions. The media makes totally disproportionate matters of life and death the focal point of our lives. I care about the family that burned to death in the fire but please don’t use it as a distraction. What are the other billions of people and dollars doing. War and conflict is a good one. How much do we know about everything defining those events. I agree with a need for National Security but couldn’t we be told more if we could understand more. We shouldn’t have to fight for this information or be shut down because we want to know. I’ve had professionals tell me that I was having racing thoughts or that I was confused. Sure I’ve been in the loony bin and the only way out is to say “I feel much better now and I’m not having those thoughts anymore”. Then take a handful of daily pills to keep your “sanity”. The world is insane and the children, their families, and their planet are becoming fragmented because of it. There is no conspiracy except money and power it’s the common denominator of all the a fore mentioned questions.

We are like snakes at the feet of our politicians and they know to tread lightly but does that mean we should be satisfied with being snakes? “Want To Know How To Become An Informed Citizen? Here’s How” gives us some resources to stay more informed. But let’s face it most folks don’t want to use there well earned relaxation time on political science. And who understands the stock market? Better yet who understands how the two work together and the knowledge vital to be an informed agent for change. Do you think our Government and big business wants us to know more about what there what they’re doing or less? Unless your job is actually in politics or business law who has time to effect change. Such people are busy little bees and still may find it difficult to make the time needed. Even if they put forth efforts in direction of positive change  and patriotism is not on their employer’s agenda they may find their job gone as well as any other future job. So if the American landscape is to still exist we’ve got to make time for what’s important.

I spend most of my time doing research for this blog. I feel America slipping away into a void of governmental and economic failure. I’m going to grab on and anchor it as much as one concerned citizen can. If the American Government fell to anarchy the rich would still be rich and therefore in control. An oligarchy can exist within anarchy. The politicians would become whatever little pets their decisions had allowed them to become. Everyone would be living a life of every man for himself or herself and those of us in a lower income bracket wouldn’t fair as well. There’d be no laws against murder, rape, and burglary. Many civilized citizens wouldn’t make it and doomsday preppers wouldn’t seem so crazy. But why worry about that? America’s never going to fall. It can’t. Can it?

I have a couple more websites that focus on informaty (which isn’t a word but should be in the information age). The first is “12 Steps to Being Well-Informed“. The second focuses more on today’s technology “7 Ways To Stay Informed And Up-To-Date Online“. I’ve really got to do my part. I still use a printed Random House Webster’s dictionary. The article I’ve linked is lousy with ads but it does speak to a more technologically advanced world.

I think we become more informed by knowing the legislation being voted on in local and Federal arenas. We should have all the technical jargon translated to a language that everyone can understand. And there should be an advocate of the people to perform those functions. Our elected politicians just aren’t doing that for us. The gap in the wealth of information is as stratospheric as the gap in monetary wealth.

I feel overwhelmed and punching the keypad of computer is a real life saver. I foresee a future where I have the wherewithal to do more. Until next time, keep your homes well.

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