The matrix

I know there is a matrix.

I know it now. I am free to write what i feel in a "free" world, so I will write it.

I notice that many people are not in tune with the world around them. I think many people dont care to be in tune with the world around them.

It is great that we have a black (half white half kenyan) president. I hope he can fulfill his promises.

But that is a world very far away from the real worlds that most of us live in. It is a symbol of the progress that we must make happen in our own daily lives and in our ways of thinking.

I admit that i am not as progressive when it comes to gay rights as i could be. Prehaps i just need to meet a gay person to better explain to me the issues at stake.

But what is important is that we are willing to continue to challenge our views of things. We must be more able and willing today than yesterday to live outside of our own comfort zones.

The world is changing faster than people think that it is. In good ways and in bad ways. Yet many people believe that if they know little of the problems that plague africa, central asia, the carribean and so on, then those problems dont exist. They take refuge in watching garbage on fox and mtv. Blasting recycled, remixed, retooled, uncreative, uninspired music from their different yet matching ipods.

We elect a black president and think we have done something. The work STARTS now. We owe people. People we dont know and havent met yet. People who havent been born yet. People who havent waken up yet.

When a person can openly honestly admit that their live is primarily about becoming rich at any cost, their pursuit of wealth costs someone else. With so many in the pursuit of material wealth, many others are left to want. In america we learn that those without arent willing to work. What the real truth is, is that greed trumps all other feelings when dealing with people. It clouds the conscience.

Greed as in, i want to be rich. as in, my looks are the most important thing to me. As in, i want people to know that i am the best dresser and stay in style. As in, look at my car and my house and you can see how important i am.

I have said it before and will continue to say it. I hate materialism. It is a symbol of the failure of humanity. A scourge to humanity. A planet of human beings who have come to value something other than humanity the most. A planet of people who judge people on their culture, sex, skin color. A planet of people who classify themselves who by country they were born in, where their parents came from, what foods they eat and dont eat, what the name of their god is.

All of these things cloud people from thinking the most important thing; how does my listening to this ipod everyday help the human race as a whole? How does me buying the large house made of plastic from sweat shops in asia help the human race as a whole? How does me buy a 200 dollar button down shirt worth a wholesale price of less than 10 dollars help the human race as a whole?

Its like the high school student who procrastinates on his homework until he has so much that he cant catch up.

How long can we live super extravagent lifestyles at the cost of the rest of the world? How long before they get tired of it?

Worse yet, what kind of world would it be if everyone tried to live like americans?

There is the matrix. Thinking that a car a house, a six figure income, 3 weeks vacation, and an extended wardrobe is the culmination of life.

I hate to believe this, but i think soon, americans will get a more real experience about the things in life that are the MOST important. The people that choose to help them survive.

People are too slow at adapting to change. And if we dont get better at it, we will soon find that darwin theory applies to not only individual humans, but to all of human kind as well.

Money cant by protection from every thing.