What's the first thing I hear on my local news?
The 1-2 punch of the hurricanes may rise up gas prices.
Hey, I do have a slight suspicion about the government dictating things. It could at least make sense - manipulation through gas prices.
But I can see the sides:
'Hey, what is a government going to do?'
'hah, that's just what they want yuu to say. They want you to think that this is their only option, that it's logical'
'well, isn't it? I mean, what would you do?'
'so you just accept it? Accept what the media says?'
'it's not just the media'
'no, you are right, it's a lot more than that...'
and so on and so forth....
I mean, whatever side of whatever fence you find yourself on, I reccomend striving to think "why" or "how". Not to impose doubt, no, but to understand.
Still, one of the most distorting things I see is when people go by on emotion. Emotion permits single minded thinking, it creates a definite write or wrong, and that is a concept I do not buy.
I as much as anyone else strives to find a system, a theory, etc, that would relate all things, that would connect.
HOwever....... you can't really think that way. Because once you start talking in absolutes, "THIS is RIGHT", I think you loose elements of the truth.
........
yet, there are definite answers when it comes to feelings - as in pain. Pain is undesireable, while pleasure, sensual delight, is certainly obvious. But even those things are subject to fluctuations - if you keep hearing a beautiful song, on a CD, repeating it over and over again, it eventually becomes undesireable........
so.....
food for thought.......
