I keep reading and hearing about how this generation is "too much." The technology has left us unable to properly communicate -- we always have our fingers typing a text or email, noses in peoples online photo albums, thinking in twitter and facebook phrases instead of full sentences, and have left our  phone calls to be a rarity and written mail practically extinct.  Personally, I have made a conscious effort to call people and send cards as opposed to using e-cards, emails, fb comments, or, god forbid, a text message, for anything of substance.  I know people that have been evicted via text message and that is just out hand.  Are we that afraid of facing people and discussing our issues face to face?  I sure hope not. I hope that we have not completely lost the ability to speak to one another honestly, or at all.  Beyond our lack of communication, the period we are living in is, in my opinion, most definitely "too much."  Our government has hijacked our energy, healthcare, food production, and education, and turned them into oil mongering, pill pushing, synthetic money makers. 

Reading bell hooks' "Belonging," she discusses a calmer time:

People lived a simple life, a life governed by seasons, spring for hoping and planting, summer for watching things grow, for walking and sitting on the porch, autumn for harvest and gathering, deep winter for stillness, a time for sewing and rest.

Does this exist anymore? 

My life has turned into a movie theatre with a panaroma view, witnessing lie after lie coming from every direction:

When I am trying to have a numbing hour of mindless comedy, I watch "Cougartown" on Hulu.  I think that it is hilarious and I thoroughly enjoy the cast.  It's nothing deep but genuinely fun and personable.  Unfortunately, half of the minute long commercials were terrifying, fear mongering commercials about the HPV vaccination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndKT6V3rV7s.  I do not trust such blatant scare tactics in advertisement, least of all an advertising MEDICINE.  Advertistements are means of selling something and I don't want my medicine to be sold to me for profit because then medicine becomes a business, and with big business comes power and greed, which I find to be some of the scariest of vices.  Medicine deals with health -- with life.  That needs to come from the heart, not from the pocket.  Believe what you want about HPV, it is not my place to tell you what is right or wrong, fact or fiction. I simply share my opinion and if you do not agree, I respect that.  So here is what I read when I looked up "HPV" :

"Genital human papillomavirus (also called HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females. These HPV types can also infect the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not even know they have it.

HPV is not the same as herpes or HIV (the virus that causes AIDS). These are all viruses that can be passed on during sex, but they cause different symptoms and health problems."

(http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm#Whatis)

That seems awfully vague to me.  In fact, it reminded me of this speech about another fairly important subject that said very little and opened up a very, very wide margin for who our "enemy" is and who we are waging war against:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1130731388742388243#

(I am specifically talking about the first quote, but keep watching!!)

In terms of the food production, I am completely disgusted with the food that sits on grocery store shelves.  Our chickens are de-beaked so that they don't peck each other to death.  Babe's little curly que is cut off so other anxiety ridden pigs don't bite it off.  Cows, who have 4 stomaches in order to digest grass and turn it into protein are fed soy, corn, restaurant leftovers, and other species of animal. Fruits and vegetables are cellularly mutated and the genes are owned by companies.

It all reminds me of a quote of enjoy:

"Whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy."

           -BerylMarkham, West with the Night.

This subject gets me so angry i can't continue to write about it. But here is the film that initially opened my eyes:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

Also, while flipping through the New Yorker there was an add for the Oil Company claiming that oil is the countries future in sustainable energy. Ha! It just gets better and better!

Lengthy; I commend anybody that would read this but hope that somebody will at least check out the links! Ta Ta for now!