I'm not going to get left and right here, because there are some things that everybody should be doing that is more important than left/right crap. I think we live in a time where you have to be irrational to be optimistic. If you have children you must be an environmentalist. If you're not, than that perplexes me. The earth has a fever and the worst among us speak for the best. We now live in an age where the strongest nation is at war in two different nations, both practically third world countries with no armies, while the side effect of those wars has given birth to a possible new cold war era. The North Pole just melted faster in the last two years than what that Nobel Prize winning guy predicted and what all the other experts predicted. The world needs to forget about oil and move on. It's the drug that is our earth's downfall.

On one hand I find myself filled with dissatisfaction and complaints and on the other that has borne in me the feeling that there isn't any better time to be alive because progress can be made, attitudes can be changed, and possibilities at advancing are not on the horizon, they are here now in the form of ideas that would let us live in a cleaner world.

But right now my hope teeters because the rich countries and the majority of the people in them either lack the nerve, lack the political will, or are so preoccupied with trivialities and banalities that they are too lazy to be aware of the world around them. I'm especially critical of the cultures in Canada and the United States which have become idiocracies in many ways. Stupidity is rewarded as is goofing off and there is much too much emphasis on style over substance, "first impressions", and narcissism. It is shameful that a good deal of the people who live in both Canada and the US do not have a grasp on terrorism beyond the "we're good and they're bad" talking point, couldn't place most countries in the Middle East if they were tested, and aren't aware of the difference between Sikhs and Arabs. Aren't aware of the kinds of relationships we've engaged in in the Middle East and how that has affected us.

Ok I'm done, I promise. It seems that a lot of people are waking up, I just don't think we'll wake up in time as of right now.