  Today I went and saw Faranheit 9/ 11 all by myself.  It has been a long time since I went to the movies by myself and it was quite enjoyable.  The movie was amazing!  It is an emotional rollercoaster and really makes you think and question the world around you. and shows how immoral goverenment is and how so many people are blinded by the almighty dollar.
including myself. but i guess the first step is admiting you are an addict,  right?  It all reminded me of this conversation I had with Shannon about emotion and how emotion controls reason. and then from there I realized that governement and corporations function on reason alone. scary.
 Michael Moore illustrates that point when he tries to get congressmen to enlist their own children to fight the war in Iraq.  It's easy to send other people's kids over to fight a war.  Man,  it really sucks realizing how messed up the world is and how sad it is that all this people in government,  congressman,  senators,
 the cabinet,  they were all young once and idealistic and knew what was right and what was wrong and then as they grew older they realized that some things were not so wrong and it didnt matter if they ignored certain facts in the pursuit of something they desired. I mean,  everyone thinks their a good person.  I'm sure Ken Lay from Enron thinks he's a good person,  but he has committed so much evil and hurt some many people and ruined so many people's lives!
 It's scary!  How do you reach that point where you're no longer a good person and not realize it?  How do they( Halliburton and others)  lie to themselves and convince themselves that sending kids to die for the sake of new business contracts and potential finanial gain in Iraq?  How can they look in the mirror?
 I just hope that when I'm old I don't decide that my ethics and morals can be ignored for the sake of a profit or anything for that fact.  That I will always stand by my principles and beliefs.  I hope that when im old i wont become disillusioned or realistic. because if realistic means ignoring my heart and killing my empathy for other then forget it!  I guess I am a tree hugging,  peace preaching hippy.
because in the long wrong what's wrong with that?  At least I wont kill innocent people to attain what i believe in.  And that's that.
