It’s been an interesting past little while, and even though I haven’t been blogging quite as much, I intend to catch up. It’s been hectic, and among the groups of things that have been going on, there are a few that have caught my eye. Before I go into what they are, I just want to say that the reason they’ve caught my attention is because they solicit a kind of response from people that makes me want to think “What?”
I’m obviously not knowledgeable enough to go into details about everything, but I think that the effect that my attention turns to them is simply because they make me wonder if people really have a reason to react in the way that they do.
The first of these major things is the BP Oil spill. Now, with the idiocy between BP trying to clean up the ocean by saving the oil rather than saving the ocean by stopping the oil, period, and Obama imposing a ban on deep ocean drilling, and the US Judicial system giving Obama the presidential cock-block, I don’t think we have to look very far to see that a lot of this nonsense could have been avoided by sacrificing that oil well and just blocking it up. I know, it’s not that easy, but it should have been the obvious option, and I think everyone is just getting fed up of the whole thing. It is pretty obvious that the motivation for a lot of what’s going on is based on a background agenda. With BP Oil, they want to save the oil for economic reasons, and Obama’s pushing his agenda as acting out of concern for the country. The Supreme Court’s decision to lift the ban was done for political reasons, to show that they could still assert power and to some extent take power from the President and give it to the people(which evidently consists of the business that pay for a large portion of their payrolls).
Moving on, another interesting moment I think is interesting is the G20/G8 Summit happening in Toronto. The problem with these things is that they’re going to be congesting traffic and closing up a large chunk of the downtown core, and this is going to lead to several inconveniences for many of the people in and around the area. One of the major things is that protesters lately have been gathering to raise issues, and while it’s not a negative thing, I wonder if it has had any kind of effect on the politicians. I wonder if these protesters really think they can get through to the politicians and if not, why they continue to try.
Finally, there was an earthquake in Southern Ontario today, and it was apparently a 5 on the Richter Scale. All I saw on my facebook feed was earthquake related posts for a good half hour. I felt a slight tremor at best, and my mom experienced worse; my cousin and brother didn’t feel a thing though. I was frightened, but only slightly, while other people were overreacting to the situation. But what makes people respond the way they do?
I find this to be the question I would like to have answered, even though it won’t always be so easy to do so.
