Random Thoughts

So I'm a little irritated right now. My laptop will not update from Microsoft for some weird reason. Personally, it's getting on my last nerve. I've done a lot to try and figure it out, and nothing. I submitted my research paper this morning. The prof. was not too happy with me missing three day—consecutive days. That is really bad, even for me. Let's see…what else has been a major pitfall for me lately…Oh yes, I'm lonely (as if it changed). There are some good things, at least. So my life isn't all nostalgic—which is really good news. I don't like some of the unoriginal scenes that the emos and the punks elicit. It seems to me that there is a moral epidemic happening even with these social outcasts. I find it disturbing that they're even around. (How do we get rid of them?) I found another hobby other than writing: thinking, which is basically the same, except there's no using of the hand and paper and a writing utensil.

I have to read this book on the California Constitution. It sounds extremely boring. I read about the formation of the state of California. It sounds like America isn't as patriotic and romantic as the media would hope for. There were many wars that took place in order for us to have this wonder state we call California. So many people died in the name of imperialism, on both sides. The Spanish people were so deprived of their rights that we had to coerce them into selling us the land. We would have bought all of Mexico, but President Polk believed it would cost a lot of money to further the warfare. Personally, I find it equally wrong altogether even to have begun the war. There are so many ethical problems with the American-Mexican wars to even begin to think. On a similar note, we hear constantly—from the media—that Bush is a criminal, and I would even rant that there isn't a single crime that he has committed; and I would ask what law he broke, too. The accusers can't name one law he has violated. But then I finally saw what was going on. It was a spiritual law he was violating: genocide. Some would argue, from a teleological point of view, that it isn't a spiritual matter (see Aristotle). He has done so much to secure the profit of American economic growth instead of truly helping the Iraqi people. There is a reason why he hasn't been indicted, however, other than the fact that he is the president: There is no law that would indict him. And now that the Democrats are in office, there is plenary evidence there isn't, or else they would have by now. The fact is, we live in a plutocracy, and that's not going to change soon. The rich will continue to suppress the poor, and the rich will continue to get richer.