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Hell, isnt that right. I think its about time for a revolution. After seeing Across the Universe this weekend, due to Julie Taymor's visual brilliance. My mind has been connecting the things Ive been learning, much as she connected Beatles music to our current time period.
Walking to my car there was a dreary London mist around me, or at least what I imagine it would be like. My friend and I sat in our non-eco friendly vehicular transportation, eating our organic chocolate and thinking, and discussing for over an hour. What is the state of our world today? Like a repeat of our past we as a country are making the same mistakes again and again. People are fighting the same type of war we fought before. I support our troops, the men and women who give their lives to defend the heavy price of Liberty. I dont support the people who sit behind their desks and send them away to be killed. And instead of showing the truth our news gives us the newest update of Brittney Spears(30,600,000 google hits in 2007 alone)or Paris Hilton(18,400,000 google hits 2007) .Much less infomation is available on the parallels of two wars. Are we aware of our own history even? Of the fights we have fought already?I know I am not. But I want to be. I am trying and learning and opening my eyes a little wider.
People look at college students and laugh at us. Walking to my car there was a dreary London mist around me, or at least what I imagine it would be like. My friend and I sat in our non-eco friendly vehicular transportation, eating our organic chocolate and thinking, and discussing for over an hour. What is the state of our world today? Like a repeat of our past we as a country are making the same mistakes again and again. People are fighting the same type of war we fought before. I support our troops, the men and women who give their lives to defend the heavy price of Liberty. I dont support the people who sit behind their desks and send them away to be killed. And instead of showing the truth our news gives us the newest update of Brittney Spears(30,600,000 google hits in 2007 alone)or Paris Hilton(18,400,000 google hits 2007) .Much less infomation is available on the parallels of two wars. Are we aware of our own history even? Of the fights we have fought already?I know I am not. But I want to be. I am trying and learning and opening my eyes a little wider.
They joke of our liberal identities, but how would they exist without us?We are the people who need to stand up and make it stop. Our world has become a society of individuals. Our leaders keep saying " Nothings gonna change my world" with their defiance and repetitive mistakes. But we need to change it. While we are all sitting here not using our voices. It is time for a social revolution becuase without one we will surely fall down. We cannot work our 9 to 5 job and forget about our global position. For being a global leader we are pretty slacking. How political I must sound right now, and not eloquently at that. But it is frightening to look and see the monster of our actions approaching dead ahead and to turn around screaming for change only to see everyone else with their backs turned to us. We have one world and the only thing we can think of is how we will destroy each other. We need to break out of our daily box and live in the circle of PEACE. I think the hippies had it right all along.Even though it took a mired of drugs to get it.The Beatles were right, " All you need is love",
we need to turn around and reach out to take care of each other.
we need to turn around and reach out to take care of each other.
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All you need is love.
Peace.
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