Something interesting

I love googling. It's my favorite past time.

Sometimes I can't even watch youtube videos without googling. Mainly because there's like a million things in this universe to be read about.

Anyways, I came across this. It's very interesting and I agree (is it because I do this?)

"We have a bad habit as a culture of wanting everything to be test and assessment ready. We now send kids to college programs that aspire to job placement (even when there might not be jobs to be had) but offer little in the way of critical thinking. Why not learn something because it should be learned? Why does everything have to have a monetary reason or result? Isn't that what has India and China beating us academically in the first place?"

I agree mainly because this is what I was questioning before....hm...maybe agree shouldn't be the word I should use...but I understand because this is what I was questioning before.

Learning things just to learn them. I've been often wondering why we do things in the first place. To meet some kind of end right? Not negatively speaking this time, but just in general. Necessities I understand. Go to the store to get food. However it comes into question when I see people pile up on food. Isn't that going beyond the amount needed. I guess people may think we are at a point where food is sparse. 

However, now that I'm reading a few pages from my Intro. to Biology digital book, it's got me thinking that maybe doing this is going to limit the amount of resources me have.

Now, these are just my guesses, and I'm not saying I'm completely observant, but I think I can possibly put two and two together.

Take for instance  the war that was going on in Iraq. I'm not into politics (so I won't speak like I know what I'm talking about), but I've heard people say they were their for oil and some other things. Does that bring up the question "are we running low on fuel, so much so that we have to kill over it?" 

In the biology text it states "density-dependent factors decrease birth rate or increase death rates, and they come into play or worsen wit crowding. Competition among members of a population for limited resources leads to density-dependent effects."

Now moving on to the cloning of animals. Why actually would people want to start cloning? To gain a larger amount of animals to produce more food? This brings up my point of stocking up on more food than needed. I can understand how it can help in times of a disaster. Yes, that's understandable. I won't argue with that point. To me, that's a little sad because I can see selfish ways in this situation. People will give what they can to others, but after some time, they hide what they have because they're running low.

So I wonder about this situation. What can we as a whole do? This is why I think the education isn't the best. I learn more from doing my free reading than I would sitting in a class for an hour. Yes I love art. But I was doing art on my own before taking classes. If I wanted to improve I could learn on my own. But that's not the point. The point is this, learning the essential is key.

Learning about the land. Treating it kindly. Not treating it like crap and throwing waste everywhere. It's like we're still living in old times, but place a curtain over it and pretend it doesn't happen.

I think if we learned to cultivate the land properly, such as learning to grow the essential foods for our bodies, rather than depending on farms to quickly produce everything for us. I think it could help them a lot. Plus we wouldn't have to worry about chemicals infested vegetables.

Also critical thinking. I don't think (even in college) we think critically anymore in class. It's annoying to have a teacher stand in front of the class 5 days out of the week for about an hour just trying to drill stuff in our heads. Yeah we'll retain that information only long enough for a test. Then we may never use it again anymore. In class (the classes I took) they just don't ask us "what do you think about this situation?" or "what would you do in this situation?" what's worse is that they say "nope, that's wrong" or "hm...I don't think so" to our answers.

Survival. This is essential too. A desk will not help to protect me in a major kidnapping situation. Or if I were approached by wolves. In the past people learned these things, I'm going to go no a limb and guess that it was because they had no choice. They lived in the open. And that's what's not healthy. Yes! We live on the inside. But there is still an outside out there that we don't know how to protect ourselves against (without violence if necessary).

The outside hasn't left. Those things are still out there. We've just been put INSIDE this kind of bubble. A bubble I call a society of a mind box, where everything is okay. I'm not gonna say it's not okay, but I think the moment we were placed in this box, those natural human instincts went out the window. The were toss out the window and closed in a shed. So then, when in this society, a person loses it, I say "a natural animalistic moment?"

It's not gone. It's that part we call dark, dangerous and dirty. It's the part that craves pleasurable situations, excitement, it's just as natural as breathing air, but it's become contained.

Now please understand I'm not saying the way things are is bad, it's both. It's healthy because it gives a steady footing, but it's unhealthy because of the containment portion.

Imagine if you bought a bottle of soda. It's good because the soda is in the bottle. Of course you wouldn't want your soda not in a bottle or container. It keeps in less messy. But now you shake the body okay. The ingredients become rattled up. It stays contained until the cap comes off and the soda end up all over the place. It's a  messy situation.

Humans, in my opinion, are like bottles of sodas (bear with my analogy lol), they have natural ingredients that are contained by what is said to be right and wrong. But there are lots of different sodas out there. And they have different ingredients. But if shaken to a certain point, they lash out. Can we get angry at this if it was never taught out to control it in a healthy way? Yeah, I've had teachers say "keep your hands and feet to yourself" as a child, but do people listen. Nope.

I once read that it's because, as children, just saying "no" doesn't explain anything. Explain to people. Don't just say "no". By the time they get older, it may be too late (not really) because it's ingrained into their head that what they are doing is a part of themselves.

I also have an issue with this ban on gay marriage thing too. But I'll save that for another time.

Now I'm gonna take a nap and get back to my homework when my nap is over.

See you soon!

Mon