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Mar 17, 2005 16:29

We always blame the dog for biting, but do we ever blame the master? When something goes wrong it is natural for a person to find someone else to blame. There is always a scapegoat. But a true leader will always take responsablity for his actions.

I'm not sure were i'm going with this. I just watched The Motorcycle Dairies. Great movie, it is 1) foreign and 2) about a subject that i have never thought about and have little knowledge of. I wasn't expecting the main character to actually be part of the Cuban Revolution. I went into this movie thinking, it's just two guys traveling through Latin America. Crazy and unpreapred possibly not even ready to face what they did. I could see the story building, sense the direction it was going to take, but the whole time i thought tragedy and in a sense there was.

Our Commander-in-Cheif claims to want to spread democracy and liberty to the world, but has he really actually thought of what that would take. With these words i felt the world tumbling into chaos and war, and yet it hasn't. Still I see the flames of Mordor in his eyes and I fear what the future might bring down upon us all. I believe that somewhere inside him is a voice saying that he needs to help people, i just see him however, more apt to help the people that can give him something in return. I understand that there are many things that need fixing within our own country and America's primary concern should be it's people. But if one is going to preach about democracy and freedom and do nothing to help the people that truly need it, then he is not a man i will follow.

Within this movie one gets a humanitarian look at how different other places are. Yea, i may dislike many aspects of this country and want to leave it with all my heart, i am glad i was born here. There is so much that i don't know, and i don't claim to be a subject matter expert on, well ... anything. I react with my gut and to see the suffering on a person's face hurts.

So while writing this i thought about what it would be like to go to all 48 states. Just leave Socorro and let life take me on it's way. I thought about what i might find. I realized that i would probably become more bitter (i know it's wrong to say it like that but i can't think of a better way). i might find people willing to help and all that jazz but bottom-line is that i don't have the faith in the American people that i would have in other countries. I've seen old clips from the parades after the World Wars. Nothing is like that, people are distant and yet can always be reached. It is as thought the more technology we have the more removed we become from one another.

i think i'm going to stop, because most of this is pretty stream-of-conscious and may not be making sense to anyone but me right now. And i'll read it in a couple days and go WTF, that makes no sense.
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