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Monday, 21 April 2014

Emotionless.

Journal #1
4/21/2014
Is it possible to be incapable of feeling emotion? There has to be something wrong with me. I think constantly about the hallow crevasse that has diligently dug its way into the pit of my very being since childhood. I lack the ability to feel compassion towards others. To feel empathy or sympathy is a human trait I have yet to master. It's not as if I don't look around the world and see the terror and destruction of poverty, but my motivations are not to protect and to preserve everyone else around me but to protect and  preserve my own existence, and something about that feels sinister. My thoughts eat me alive, and at night is when my demons come to play. 
12:00am
B.H

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Bjӧrk: Are we a part of the Universe or is the Universe us?

Bjӧrk, a child of the Universe, has this amazing ability to express the connection between humans and the Universe that I haven't seen any other artist successfully portray in music. She is a true representation of the Universe's soul, combining the scientific notion that humans were created from stardust, with our complex and sophisticated array of human emotions, desires, and needs. Her seventh album, Biophilia, is a soundtrack that goes above and beyond in sending listeners to the massive maze that is outer space, and to the inner core of the Earth, connecting each of us with the world around us and in the process sending us on a search within the deepest crevasses of our soul. 

The Earth's Dying, SAY WHA?

After reading about Thomas Malthus and Esther Boserup's proposals as to the direction the planet is heading in terms of population growth, each make various valid points that are affecting us in today's society, but when it comes to a long term solution, I think the big picture is still being missed. When looking at the world as a whole, the crude birth rate far surpasses the crude death rate as the rate of natural increase soars leaving us with the issue of the Earth's ability to sustain our ever growing population. While Malthus suggests, although in a satirical tone, that we should invoke famine, plague, and disease to decrease the world's population, that is something that is out of the question in today's society where there are vaccines for nearly every sickness imaginable. Not to mention it's morally wrong. He also goes on to suggest that governments limit the amount of children that families are allowed to have, something like the One-Child policy that China has in place to control the worlds population crisis. But that once again raises the question as to whether it is morally right, and if it's taking away the rights of citizens of the world, children of the universe, to recreate and carry on their family name to the extent that they wish. Meanwhile, in undernourished countries, the infant mortality rate exceeds the total fertility rate which means more babies are dying than there are woman to create more children. The undernourished countries of the world do not make up for the rest of the worlds ability to reproduce, however, as Canada's population growth rate in 2012 alone was 1.1%. Boserup's ideas on the other hand is that there aren't too many people, but too little wealth. In many cases, that is true, but there are exceptions that can be made if the countries of the world put their ego's aside and focused on the growing problem at hand, which is the Earth's inability to sustain all of the humans that continue to populate it. Personally, neither point of view makes sense to me. My own point of view makes the most sense to me. I think that the answer to the world's population crisis lies in Science. If we were to invest more time in science and technology, and began speeding up the space exploration, there may be huge discoveries waiting just around the corner. If I were to tackle the issue of population, and wanted to get through to the people, I would probably study Astronomy, and begin the search for a planet that can sustain human life just as well as the Earth can, and I think that this is the most effective way to preserve the human race and move forward.

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Divergent

To start off my venture into the world of blogging, I'd like to share my opinions on a book I had the pleasure of indulging in this week. Divergent is a novel of a girl, Beatrice, and her struggles to discover who she is in an interesting version of a dystopian world that is unlike anything I have ever seen. In this world the people are separated into factions that teach certain qualities such as selflessness, honesty, bravery, intelligence, and peace. Once you have chosen your faction, however, you make the choice to leave your family behind, or to venture into the world of the unknown. That is exactly what Beatrice does. She makes an effortless decision to leave her family behind, the selfless, and joins the brave. The word Divergent is extremely important to the storyline, but by telling you it's importance, I'd be spoiling the book, so I'll just let your minds wander. I will tell you, this book is definitely worth the read. It mixes action, gore, and romance very well and I have high hopes for the movie, but I have my doubts as well that it will not live up to the book, as no movie usually does. Time will tell! Irregardless I recommend this book to teens and adults alike. 
Rate: 8/10