oh gravity, stay the hell away from me.
been overthinking everything. comes from spending so much time alone.
1. so congress, in their efforts to increase security measures after 9/11, passed these new passport rules. you know, the ones where everyone going to mexico and canada and the caribbean will soon need a passport. so now it takes like 3 months to get a passport because so many people are applying at once. the state department, my hopeful future employer, is now processing around 30 million passports per year rather than their usual 12 million. i just read an article on cnn that included quotes from congessmen about how these delays are "a national embarrassment" and basically accusing the entire department of incompetence and laziness. wtf??? YOU passed the stupid laws without even thinking whether the branch of the government responsible for implementing them had the resources to do so! and now you criticize and point the finger so that people will turn their anger on someone else and not on congress. like, who is congress to criticize ANYONE??? they don't actually DO anything but sit on their asses and make up things for OTHER PEOPLE to do. oh, and by the way, if they just "hurry up" and hand out passports indiscriminately as suggested, then the security purpose of the law would be totally lost so what's the point? ugh, sometimes all the politicking just makes me ill. i know that's gonna be my greatest challenge if i do go into government work.
2. israel is turning away refugees from darfur because "Israeli law denies asylum to anyone from an enemy state, AP reports. Sudan's Muslim government is hostile to Israel and has no diplomatic ties with the Jewish state." oh, you mean like how we denied jewish refugees fleeing nazi germany? oh, ok, that makes total sense. seriously, wtf?!? these people are being killed BY their muslim government!! but fear of losing so-called national character in the face of "an increasing number of Africans" prevents the kind of compassion that the entire world has been scolded for not providing to the jews during the holocaust. i'm sorry but i just don't see how offering a safehaven to those trying to escape horrific violations of their human rights can weaken your country. if anything, you're gaining the allegiance of a very strong and admirable group of people who will love your country, and at the same time upholding the very principles on which your nation was supposedly founded in the first place. what the fuck ever, man.
3. i HATE walking through first class to get to the coach section of airplanes. especially when the line is slow and you get stuck like standing in the aisle of the cabin for a while, and they just look at you like "sorry you're not rich like me, but i would appreciate it if you could hurry up and sit in your own cabin." i mean, maybe they're not really thinking that at all, but it feels like it to me. it's like they exude an attitude of entitlement, like they DESERVE to be treated better than you. and, feeling like this for those brief moments before i get to my seat just makes me think what it must be like to actually BE poor. i may sit in the back of the plane, but i can still afford to fly on the plane at all. what about the women who see the rich being chauffered in their luxury cars or vacationing on their yachts or their beach houses, and she can barely feed her children while working three jobs? what about the people who clean those nice hotel rooms or drive the tourists around in their taxis all day? we don't deserve what we've been given. and i feel like recognizing that is the first step to becoming a globally-conscious person, rather than floating through your entire ignorant life thinking that paris hilton's jail time really IS newsworthy.
ugh, all this stuff just winds me up so much. but maybe venting it into cyberspace will help my sanity a tiny bit.
1. so congress, in their efforts to increase security measures after 9/11, passed these new passport rules. you know, the ones where everyone going to mexico and canada and the caribbean will soon need a passport. so now it takes like 3 months to get a passport because so many people are applying at once. the state department, my hopeful future employer, is now processing around 30 million passports per year rather than their usual 12 million. i just read an article on cnn that included quotes from congessmen about how these delays are "a national embarrassment" and basically accusing the entire department of incompetence and laziness. wtf??? YOU passed the stupid laws without even thinking whether the branch of the government responsible for implementing them had the resources to do so! and now you criticize and point the finger so that people will turn their anger on someone else and not on congress. like, who is congress to criticize ANYONE??? they don't actually DO anything but sit on their asses and make up things for OTHER PEOPLE to do. oh, and by the way, if they just "hurry up" and hand out passports indiscriminately as suggested, then the security purpose of the law would be totally lost so what's the point? ugh, sometimes all the politicking just makes me ill. i know that's gonna be my greatest challenge if i do go into government work.
2. israel is turning away refugees from darfur because "Israeli law denies asylum to anyone from an enemy state, AP reports. Sudan's Muslim government is hostile to Israel and has no diplomatic ties with the Jewish state." oh, you mean like how we denied jewish refugees fleeing nazi germany? oh, ok, that makes total sense. seriously, wtf?!? these people are being killed BY their muslim government!! but fear of losing so-called national character in the face of "an increasing number of Africans" prevents the kind of compassion that the entire world has been scolded for not providing to the jews during the holocaust. i'm sorry but i just don't see how offering a safehaven to those trying to escape horrific violations of their human rights can weaken your country. if anything, you're gaining the allegiance of a very strong and admirable group of people who will love your country, and at the same time upholding the very principles on which your nation was supposedly founded in the first place. what the fuck ever, man.
3. i HATE walking through first class to get to the coach section of airplanes. especially when the line is slow and you get stuck like standing in the aisle of the cabin for a while, and they just look at you like "sorry you're not rich like me, but i would appreciate it if you could hurry up and sit in your own cabin." i mean, maybe they're not really thinking that at all, but it feels like it to me. it's like they exude an attitude of entitlement, like they DESERVE to be treated better than you. and, feeling like this for those brief moments before i get to my seat just makes me think what it must be like to actually BE poor. i may sit in the back of the plane, but i can still afford to fly on the plane at all. what about the women who see the rich being chauffered in their luxury cars or vacationing on their yachts or their beach houses, and she can barely feed her children while working three jobs? what about the people who clean those nice hotel rooms or drive the tourists around in their taxis all day? we don't deserve what we've been given. and i feel like recognizing that is the first step to becoming a globally-conscious person, rather than floating through your entire ignorant life thinking that paris hilton's jail time really IS newsworthy.
ugh, all this stuff just winds me up so much. but maybe venting it into cyberspace will help my sanity a tiny bit.
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