How I Became To Know Of Julian Assange

I heard of Julian Assange around the time he was either made famous for Wiki-leaks or when he got arrested. I don't remember which scenario I started to know about him on a regular basis, but Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader's impressions of Julian made me more aware of who he was, if not what he exactly does. After seeing a video from TED.com in class, I have some new found respect for Assange. Leaking information that comes from whistle blowers isn't a crime and all, if most, information is legitimate to release. The only leak that I question is the one of the US soldiers laughing at the death they witness on a daily basis. Some say its conditioning or that they have no human decency, but I just say, tell the truth about the situation. Was there laughing taken out of context or are they legitimate jar heads, as really messed up army men are called.

Anyway, below is a video of a hilarious Bill Hader skit as Julian Assange.

Life, Just Right:

The documentary that was introduced row my class this passed week (if my spelling of its is right)"Malancholy" was not that bad of a story, a person loses their memory and tries to put the pieces back together. Ofcourse you think if someone would go to people they knew and asked questions and try to live with the fact that they have to learn things about a person they used to already know. The person in the documentary kind of did this, but created an imaginary world to help cope with things in the process that weren't going right. the last thing this person could have done, is a certain point be unsatisfied with their situation and take their own life. It's hard to say what would happen, but how many people do you know that lost their memory or have you ever lost yours? We as individuals strive for the best life possible, with all the things wrong in the world we just want a "Life, just right".

The New "Brave New World"

After reading "Brave New World" the first thing I thought of the conditioning that the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (D.H.C.) showed the new students to his (company/school not totally sure yet) and immediately thought of those kids looking like the above picture. It's scary to me, not as much visually as it does mentally. The prejudice that the creators had (probably because the era they were doing this), they passed on to the creations and/or altered the creations prejudice. When we in our time, successfully clone a human, will we be able to do this and will we? Will robots be programmed like this with some prejudice that aspect of the machine we wouldn't like? This is the New "Brave New World" we're in.

Knowledge is Power

Recently I have been thinking of the statement "Knowledge is Power" how that power is used and interpreted is one of the facets of the very term. Interactions with people, observing things happening in the world can influence, change or harden a current view or opinion. This made me thing of "Brain" from "Pinky and the Brain" I exclude "Pinky" because he was the week link in the group plus if I were to take over the world I wouldn't hand with a dumbass like that. Anyway, if you could have your own world, would you and if you did would you treat people not in a Utopian way but in a way you'd like to be treated? Would you make your own world due to the knowledge you know or for some other reason?

Obligations

When you hear someone say that the world is "cold" you usually know what variation of the meaning their using. It's funny how there can be simple causes of the effect or major ones. Most are just causes of someone trying to follow a set of rules, without using their common sense. I'm not saying break rules because that's wrong and could sway in the favor of the parties involved. So if something seems cold, take a step back and get it back to a neutral temperature.