So I have found a few places that you can watch/listen to grad school level courses for free. On top of that everyone (including me) have a blog talking about something “important”. As it has been said by someone much wiser than myself “the more you learn, the less you know”. Which I believe is very true. But it’s weird, some people read, watch, listen to or whatever so much stuff and so many conspiracy theorists about everything. There are times where I just want to climb into a hole and live there and not have to deal with a lot of the craziness of life and people. There are so many negative aspects of our world that it actually kind of depresses me. And it’s in all aspects of life; religion, politics, child rearing, the food you eat, sexuality and virtually everything else. The old saying of the two things you don’t talk about, religion and politics still stands true to a point, but apparently now in society you can’t talk about anything for fear someone will file a lawsuit, be “offended”, cry, or just be angry at you. The internet is great, some great tools and resources and you can learn about anything, but it can really be scary sometimes. You read opinions, blogs, articles, watch video or whatever and there is so much disparity and anger in peoples lives about different things. I guess that’s the thing that we like about the internet, we can voice our ideas and opinions about several topics and not have to actually talk about it with real people face to face. We don’t want that, they may disagree or be totally different then we would have to interact with people…crazy idea. And a lot of the ideas that I read about are all from people who have no real interaction with the topic they’re discussing. They conspire with others about the idea who don’t have a great deal of experience with that area either. I think if you have a living interaction with the topic being discussed it could be handled much more respectfully.
I’m kind of rambling here, sorry, just some observations.
This is why I try not to talk about politics too much, because I really don’t know that much about it. And I hate conspiracy theories. They make good movies, and that’s about it for me. And why is it that politics create such angry people? If you’re associated with one political party, it’s always the others fault, always. We never look at our own ideas and ask if there’s something about them that we can evaluate. ‘because of the republicans/democrats America is a disaster’. Yea, i’m pretty sure it’s not one party’s fault.
Are we really this selfish?
And the thing with the internet is when you comment on something or post something everyone has an opinion, which sometimes turn into an argument. Then other people chime in and you end up so far off topic sometimes. It gets out of control. It has, in a sense, completely taken the personal human interaction out of life. It’s easy for me to say something about something or someone on a wall, blog, post etc but it’s another thing to say those exact words to someones face. We don’t know how to have healthy personal interaction/problem resolution.
So yea, there are times that I really just want to climb into a hole and just imagine that the world around me doesn’t exist and that everything in my little bubble is how the rest of the world is. I mean, I really like controlling my environment, I like my bubble, it’s comfy (usually), I understand it. A lot of these other people and their ideas, I just think “huh?! how in the world can you think like that or do that?!” But is that good? I was talking to a guy, whom I have a great deal of respect for, back in December about raising kids in this crazy world. He has 3 beautiful daughters, I have a couple of kids, who I think are pretty awesome. He lives in an area that is very different than the area I do (in several ways), and I asked him if it scares him to raise his kids in that kind of crazy environment? He said (i’m going to paraphrase) ‘No. Not this area in particular. I would rather walk with my kids through some of this mess, and answer questions with them. Help them have a healthy understanding of the bigger world. Secluding and protecting ourselves and our children is understandable, but how are we helping them interact with the world around them?’
Don’t get me wrong, there are still places that I have no desire to move to just for the sake of exposing my kids to the world. The worlds a big mess, and they will interact with it. But it was a good reminder that we still need to be in this world we live. As messed up as it is.
So we have a lot more knowledge and understanding, but I’m not sure we have a great deal more wisdom.
Well that was a lot of rambling, Not even sure I made any sense.
