Tunisia Protests

If you haven't been following the protests in Tunisia, you need to.  It is history unfolding before our eyes.

Rundown:

• Unemployment rate grossly misrepresented.
• College graduates largely unemployed.
• Corruption rampant
• Government oppression
• Suicides by citizens in protest of government
• organized protests by students and lawyers
• protests being disrupted by the government with batons and teargas
• multiple deaths by suicide
• one death reported in disruption of protest
• multiple reports of abuse by police
• government attempting to restrict information
• hacking of computers, emails, facebook of protesters

international hacking group Anonymous hacked multiple government website (WELL DONE ANONYMOUS, if any of you read this, well done, support Assange too!)

To get more information, go to Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/201115101926215588.html is the most recent article as of today January 5th, 2011.

Death's Haze

What do you say to someone that has seen Death?

Death puts a blackness...no a grayness over everything.  Or, maybe, Picasso had it right and Death puts a blue haze over everything?

Death.  Death....death.....
Hmm.  Who's to say it's a bad thing?  You don't know shit about Death, in reality.  Neither do I.

We all have our beliefs, I mine, you yours, them theirs.  If a little girl dies and she isn't a Christian, does she go to Hell, or Paradise?  If I die am I reborn or do I go to Heaven?  I have my opinion.  What matters though are the ones left behind, what they think.  They need that comfort. 

When you see something tragic, it changes your perspective.

Normally, perspective changes are gradual, things that worm their way in.

Tragedy is like a damn nail gun.

The shift in perspective doesn't have to be large, it doesn't have to be small.  All that matters it that you recognize when their is a loss in the world, when we have been forbidden the gift of a life.  That is tragedy.  That feeling.

Hmm?


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Editing Note on December 2nd, 2011: This is one of my favorite posts to date.