I might hate CNN...

So I read a lot of CNN online. Its on my bookmarks bar next to my email, wikipedia and facebook. I am starting to really hate it. There is so much exposure of injustice and wrongdoing but rarely a solution offered. If CNN spent half as much time and money promoting feasible solutions to the problems they illustrate, this world could be a vastly better place.
I suppose I didn't think this entry through well enough to have a good example (or at least one that wouldn't make me come across as a bigoted, insensitive, pretentious prick)

Still, when you read the news, spend as much time as it took to read the article reflecting on what you can do to fix a given situation. If you read an article on the horrors of racism, make a point of forgetting about race. If you just heard about the latest natural disaster, discourage people you know from moving to naturally dangerous areas, or at least educate yourself as to where the dangerous areas are. There just seems to be so much whining in the news about how bad things are. I understand that in journalism there is a desire to present the facts as they are, but journalism has changed throughout it's existence. There were times when opinion was considered taboo, and other times when it was commonplace to make serious judgments.
One thing that has remained constant, at least in our society though is the notion that there are only two sides to any argument. This is ridiculous.
If there are 100 people in a room, there will be 100 different opinions on any given subject. Polls serve to stupify the american public. If the choices are yes, no and somewhat, how is anyone supposed to figure out how things will actually be. If polls were to ask "how would you handle the current economic crisis in regards to the energy industry?" we might get some really bright and exciting ideas. Of course, there would be plenty of morons and plenty of ideas that seem totally unacceptable by todays standards, but today's standards are currently not doing anyone any longterm favors.

I'm not having kids if the world looks this glum later.

Blahhhhh download this album (click the lyrics). the opening line really captures how I'm feeling right now.




Verse - Aggression

They’ve got themselves a new spin on the story,
twisted for one-sided glory.
Devastation soon becoming fuel for the masses new fury.
A greedy hand in the guise of a good man.
So threatening. So deafening.
So silencing, that familiar stance.
The burden now passed to us,
we lose our footing but still try to stand.
No control.
No more rules.
“Perpetual war for perpetual peace”,
turn a blind eye to poverty while manufacturing new enemies.
The new slave’s south of the border, murdered or overseas.
We still struggle with the fact that one percent has ninety-nine on their knees.
Washington’s drawing up war plans,
while there’s still no hope for the homeless man.
No one should have to live under these men, iron fists with gun in hand.
No more control.
No more rules.
They try to make you and me live life by their design:
No free thought. No free speech. No peace of mind.
They make a move to confine.
But they’ll never silence me as long as I can breathe.