Consumerism

Over the years I have always heard a lot of talk about Black Friday shopping but I have never really put much though into it or looked it up until recently and what I saw was appalling. To think that people can be this inhumane about shopping is actually disgusting. There are many people all over the world that do not have enough money to put food on their table and these people on Black Friday basically kill each other over MATERIAL goods. Something just does not add up here, society goes to some deep lows at times but this is actually out of control and I realize that this is all about consumerism and making the economy some money but there should be a little bit of balance here. It is amazing and scary to see the lengths that some people will go to buy something that is not even a necessity merely because it is on sale.

Thank-you Paulo Friere

Oppressed Students

Unoriginal and void, this is how much of the world looks at children going into school and this is people look at kids when it comes to the banking method. The banking method is where children are empty pots waiting for knowledge to be dropped into them. This severely suppresses creativity in children. At the age of a child’s first days of school a child is extremely imaginative and creative, they are also not held back by bias and polluted thoughts that society could cast upon them. It is once children are brought into school and forced to think and do things that schools want them to, is when they start to lose all of their magic and creativity. It is so uncommon to see people overflowing creativity today’s society because we are all pre-set and continuously taught to think the same way.

Slimjim Salad Commercial

Shakespeare SlimJim Video

Ideology of Equality

In 2012 we live in a world where equality is an ideology that is constantly being fought for, but yet is somehow never achieved. We want equality for women, we want equality for marriage, and we want equality for minorities, but yet with all the determination to achieve this equality in society our world is taking very small steps in creating it. After hundreds of years we have overcome many obstacles; the United States now have an African American president, women are now in the work force and gay marriage is not being accepted in certain places. But does this mean that racism and discrimination are now unknown terms to our society? Of course not, our world is still very much controlled by the white middle class men of our society, what they say is what ends up being the deciding factor. Why is it that our world is so intimidated by change? Why are so many people against two people of the same sex being in love, or a woman having a higher salary than a man?

This here is part of the opening of the London Olympic ceremony, the whole scene was a beautiful portrait of nationalism and how the world transformed into an industrialized nation.